Made A Big Mistake: Smoked A Cigar

[puff_not_snuff]

The other day I was finally able to travel out of state. I brought one pipe with me and managed to break the stem, the next day I was needing some relief so I popped over to PA which has cheap tobacco prices and bought a cigar: a Drew Estate Mint Java, petite in size. Anyway, I lite up my pipe earlier today and all I could think of I saw that cigar. I feel like a cheater. Didn’t even think I liked it that much half way through.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

The regular DE Java is probably my favorite cigar.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

The regular DE Java is probably my favorite cigar.

I planned to I try it next. Have you had the mint one? Surprising how non artificial it tasted...really like a sort of fine liquor behind the tobacco.

 

[Civil War]

I like both pipes and cigars. Why limit yourself. Oftentimes cigars are easier to smoke, like when I'm fishing or just hanging out with friends. Easier to carry also. I like pipes when I can settle down, and I enjoy all the different tobacco flavors pipes have to offer.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I planned to I try it next. Have you had the mint one? Surprising how non artificial it tasted...really like a sort of fine liquor behind the tobacco.

As much as I like menthol cigarettes, the idea of a mint cigar kind of puts me off. I'll try a mint Java on your recommendation.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

As much as I like menthol cigarettes, the idea of a mint cigar kind of puts me off. I'll try a mint Java on your recommendation.

The mint was a very very different experience than menthol for some reason. Reminded me of a Girl Scout thin mint.

 

[cigrmaster]

I found that when I was smoking cigars and pipes together, the cigar over powered the pipe tobacco flavors and stopped smoking cigars completely. I am very glad I did.

 

[anotherbob]

I don't smoke cigars often but sometimes they're really nice and a very different experience then smoking a pipe. I don't see any reason to feel bad about it. Plus pipes are more jealous of your other pipes then they are of cigars

 

[mso489]

The disparity in prices between expensive cigars, even the moderately price ones, and even premium tins of tobacco would steer me toward pipe tobacco anyway, but then add to that the flexibility of pipe smoking, that you can adjust, mix blends, pack your own way, adapt to various size and shape pipes, it is the difference between a restaurant meal where the chef makes your serious choices and cooking your own meal where you have all the control, and at a tenth of the price. When you get a bad cigar, you just feel ripped off; when you have a bad pipe bowl, you do it differently. I like a good cigar, usually a Dominican for me, but only on the rare occasion.

 

[lawdawg]

Be careful, or soon you're gonna end up spending several hundred dollars on a humidor, and then filling it up with 100 or so cigars at ~$10 a pop. Pound for pound, cigars are a FAR more expensive hobby than pipes.

 

[jdb67]

Some other forum members that smoke cigars helped me decide I would maintain a small humidor with about 20-30 good quality cigars in it in addition to my pipe smoking. I'm enjoying both to be honest. I have 20 Oliva Master 3 cigars right now. A small humidor and the stuff needed to keep it humid is not very expensive. Then off to cigarbid.com for some quality cigars...not to disparage any cigar others happen to like!

 

[virginialover]

Cigar smoking is the nonidentical twin of pipe smoking for me. Both are complementary according to my mood but cigars are more weather dependent than pipes.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

All good points. I really don’t want to get into humidor land. I do see how cigars could overpower one’s pallet so I think I will leave them as a once a week treat. I like the small size of the DE Java Mint, smokes in about 50mins and was only $6 and change in PA. I feel like it really lent itself to a dessert type experience, a bit like Bob’s Flake. Although I know little about cigars; I don’t think that they could accomplish that nice tangy draw of a bright Virginia in a pipe.

 

[sallow]

I keep about a dozen cigars. No humidor, just large mason jars.

They are worthwhile to me. I have a few a month, but I smoke a pipe every day.

 

[mityahicks]

I love smoking both. Cigars when I'm feeling lazy.

I'd smoke more cigars but my wife hates them and they are so expensive.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

I was feeling the urge so I went to a cigar shop here in nyc looking for another Java and was informed by the owner that it’s been illegal to sell flavored cigars here for over 4 years now. He directed me to a DE Tabak Especial Dulce which apparently is flavored with coffee but because it’s not labeled as such he’s able to get away with selling them. Anyway, can’t really afford to smoke cigars in any regularity to begin with and especially not with New York prices so I guess I will just stick with buying them in PA.

 

[Clovis]

Cigars are great, too, though I've very much enjoyed the move to pipes. Don't see myself buying any in the future, but if offered I'll not want to offend by declining. I was a big fan of Oliva and Brick House, but only smoked Nicaraguan otherwise.

 

[stevecourtright]

I only smoke a cigar when I am fishing a very buggy hatch in a swampy area. It helps keep the skeeters at bay - or at least that's what I tell myself. Also, no tamping to get in the way of casting...

 

[aguineapig]

If I had "screw you" money, I'd probably keep a stable of small vitola sticks around. As it is I smoke like two cigars a summer and call it good. My nicotine tolerance is low so that factors into my ambivalence.

 

[mso489]

My other complaint with cigars is that the cigar business edges over pipes, even in pipe shops, where the margin of profit on cigars is so much greater, both in terms of much higher prices and higher volume. Back during the cigar boom around the turn of the century, I saw pipes and pipe tobacco fade in chains like Tinder Box and other places.