polyboy30
Friday, August 19, 2011 10:41:51 PM
When I was 15 I remember sneaking one of my dads many cigars out of his colllection, inahling it and obviously getting sick, then I started smoking cigarettes when I was 18. I recently started enjoying cigars...how they were meant to be about 2 years ago oddly enough while at a duty free store in Canada, looking to stock up on liqour and my love for them continues to grow. Just wondering how everyone was introduced to cigars.
dr.smac
Friday, August 19, 2011 11:04:12 PM
My, then, father-in-law gave me a Punch and it was all down hill after that.
duwan
Friday, August 19, 2011 11:16:04 PM
Playing poker and drinking beer one night. Good friend (kwenner) gave me a Partagas Black. Life hasn't been the same ever since.

Haven't smoked a Party Black in a really long time. May need to hunt one down and smoke it for old times sake.

dubleuhb
Saturday, August 20, 2011 7:05:34 AM
Townsville Australia, 1988. while on a training exercise, picked up some cheroots while in a local store, been ashin them ever since.
zitotczito
Saturday, August 20, 2011 8:36:20 AM
My deceased best friend Major William T. Treon USMC (Ret.) one day while playing golf says try this, an Oliva red O, loved it and from there it is history.
JCorber
Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:07:50 AM
Sitting on the porch with my pops when I would come home on leave. Never really took an interest back then but now that he's gone I smoke daily.
TMCTLT
Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:18:04 AM
2006, While my B-in-Laws were in for the Brickyard 400 one of them offered me a cigar. As stated by Duwan

there was no looking back......🌫

illinichaser
Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:50:11 AM
Junior year of college, a bunch of my engineering buddies and my self took EALC 150( intro to Japaneese culture), it was a 1 o'clock, none of us had a class before, so we'd meet at murphy's pub, down a burger and a beer, then go smoke padron's before class. Good times. . .
Nicar
Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:24:43 AM
Well.. could it have been the black n milds that I use to get when I was 19 after dropping my girlfriend off, and smoke on the 30minute ride home. That certainly started part of it to where a while after, I happened to walk into a cigar shop and get a few and enjoyed. Never got into them much until 2 years ago, after I got rid of my ex, and my new woman doesn't mind cigars. Wonder if she knew it'd lead to 2 desktop humis on the buffet table and the tuppador in the bedroom closet ? so, guess I discovered them myself.. not as cool as some the other stories, but i like it.
boileremt
Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:26:57 AM
I had tried them when I was a teen. Swisher Sweets.

Then nothing until I turned 40. On a whim I stopped in a shpo looking for something to celebrate my birthday. I left with CAO Flavours, Acids, Macanudos, Bering Candelas, Cohiba Red Dots and Partagas. I smoked my way through most of them with Grumpie's help and then my fate was sealed by a competitor's catalog.

Pipe smoking has a little different and more complicated story that I won't go into here.

TMCTLT
Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:30:07 AM

I had tried them when I was a teen. Swisher Sweets.

Then nothing until I turned 40. On a whim I stopped in a shpo looking for something to celebrate my birthday. I left with CAO Flavours, Acids, Macanudos, Bering Candelas, Cohiba Red Dots and Partagas. I smoked my way through most of them with Grumpie's help and then my fate was sealed by a competitor's catalog.

Pipe smoking has a little different and more complicated story that I won't go into here.

boileremt wrote:

Ok for now, but I'll expect the full story when I see ya....

Nicar
Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:32:51 AM

I had tried them when I was a teen. Swisher Sweets.

Then nothing until I turned 40. On a whim I stopped in a shpo looking for something to celebrate my birthday. I left with CAO Flavours, Acids, Macanudos, Bering Candelas, Cohiba Red Dots and Partagas. I smoked my way through most of them with Grumpie's help and then my fate was sealed by a competitor's catalog.

Pipe smoking has a little different and more complicated story that I won't go into here.

boileremt wrote:

That's one thing that I'd like to try, one last things I remember about my grandfather. Just cant get into anything else, so I haven't tried it.

gimbel
Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:35:30 AM
I got started on cigars back in '98 while stationed at MCAS Yuma. I was doing a lot of bass fishing and between that and time in the field doing training exercises I wanted something to enjoy during the down time. There was a gun shop across from the main gate that I frequented that also had a decent cigar selection. Guns and cigars in the same store, what a concept right?

I only dabbled back then, but during my deployment to Iraq in '09-'10 my wife sent a sampler for my birthday. The rest is history.

nnightmar
Saturday, August 20, 2011 12:01:12 PM
On return one year form his annual Caribbean trip my dad shared a Don Tomas Sngrown cigar with me. The time we spent talking was the first in a long time. After that it became a ritual of sorts. I guess you could say cigars saved our relationship. To this day I can honestly say some of my fondest memories of my dad were the times we talked, laughed and cried together over a great cigar.
hvega1986
Saturday, August 20, 2011 12:41:52 PM
When I was 16 a friend gave me a black and mild. We thought we were so bleeping cool. Losers. Went into a local shpo on my 18th birthday and found a great shop owner that showed me the ins and outs of cigars. Smoked off and on for a couple years, then really picked up the hobby again about 2 years ago.
coolbreeze68
Saturday, August 20, 2011 12:53:46 PM
Back in my early 20's I was a heavy equipment operator, our foreman Kenny (dayum, I remembered his name) would carry around a cigar. He wouldn't light it until the job was complete.

For the longest time I assoc. cigar smoking with special events, finishing a project, or the golf course.

Last couple years has become more of a relax, me time, hangin with friends.

honda250r
Saturday, August 20, 2011 2:47:58 PM
Brother in law gifted me a Ashton 100ct Humidor and a sampler. Fired my first one up at the ripe age of 46.
NYYankees
Saturday, August 20, 2011 3:48:43 PM
Good idea for a thread.

My entrance was in Eastern Europe while in the military. A few guys pulling guard would smoke while patrolling, breaking light discipline. I was having difficulty staying awake one night and my team leader offered me a smoke. The cigar: good ol' Swishers. It wasn't until I got back to the States did I start enjoying handmades.

jimbud
Saturday, August 20, 2011 3:54:21 PM
This is a great thread. Really enjoying it.
polyboy30
Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:00:24 PM
I figured there would be some good stories out there. Amazing how many different ways one is turned on to cigar and the good times that are shared while lighting one up. Everytime my dad comes down to visit well smoke together...good times.
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