I smoked cigars starting in 2009 or so. Had a few coolers full. Then I was on a cigar forum site, that had a Pipe section. I started looking around there. A few cigar smoking forum members suggest to take up the pipe to pass the time while my cigars aged. It was around 2011, last half of the year. Still have a bunch of cigars that are quite well aged that I haven't touched since then. So I guess it worked perfectly.