Where it all Started Pt.2

[mrcigar]

Previously, I shared my introduction into the world of cigars during the late 80's which (http://www.ukcigarforums.com/showthr...it-all-Started), due to the careless treatment of Theakston's ale and tobacco, ended as rapidly as it began. A few years rolled by until I found myself once again in the company of men with an interest in cigars.

I was working in Norway for an American company, involved in the new-build of a seismic survey vessel. The manager of the build project was a young American in his early thirties who offered me a cigar one evening in the bar of the hotel. I don't know what it was, I haven't the foggiest, but it was a large cigar and rough as they come.

We sat around the white piano in the bar, where I felt very uncomfortable and conspicuous, as the pianist played out his tunes when a dark haired Norwegian woman came over and removed the cigar from my mouth, stubbed it out in the ash tray and replaced it with a cigarette. "Here, smoke this" she said in her Norwegian accented English, "You look stupid with that cigar." I didn't smoke the cigarette, nor did I smoke the dried horse manure cigar.

There we were, trying to look stylish as we sat around the piano smoking cigars but really looking complete idiots.

Lesson learned: Don't smoke cigars to look cool, especially if they're crap.

[Puff Scotty]

Ignorant Norwegian woman.....if that had been an aged Dunhill I'd have shoved her cigarette up her a**E!

[Bigboned]

Ignorant Norwegian woman.....if that had been an aged Dunhill I'd have shoved her cigarette up her a**E!

Personally I would have translated that to mean she wanted my 'meat cigar' and have gone after her- then possibly shoved it up her a***

[Wardjrz]

don't smoke cigars to look cool?

Doh!

But I do look cool when I smoke a cigar, especially a really smoky one.

[donkeydrop]

my start on cigars was not quite so cool , i was 14 behing bike sheds at school and sick of everytime i lit a fag it was taken off me and passed around so i bought 5 hamlet with my milk round money and lit one up at school then watched everyone who took a drag go green i never had to share my smokes again! the diffrence now is the only cigar that makes me ill is hamlet!!

[mrcigar]

Oh man, Hamlet, they're terrible things. I think they are made from the same horse manure the cigar I was smoking in Norway was made from.

I remember the girl's name now, she was called Olga. She was a crazy woman and bit me on the neck a few days before I was due home. Great for maintaining a marriage.

[donkeydrop]

hamlet bring on the gag reflex in me you can make your own just roll a load of rizla papers in another rizla thats just about the same as smoking a hamlet! i love my premium sticks im loving rocky patels at the moment especially the sungrown and 15th anniversary but ill give any cigar a go once but know when one is horse manure!, i find that if you want a cheap smoke have a villiger export for a machine made cigar they are the best! (round ones the square are just too square) since being retired on ill health 6 years ago and having my cigar budget bombed villiger have always been there!

[daniel2001]

I started on a Montecristo Tubo... Was my 19th birthday and I went home from Uni for the weekend with a friend. We passed a wine/whisky retailer in Soho that also sold cigars and my friend purchased 2 of the Monte's which we smoked when we got back to my house, and I rather liked it!

The next day we were back in the same area and I bought another Tubo, and have loved cigars ever since.


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[mrcigar]

Monty's whilst still a student? Good style, I like it. I would have thought most students, being strapped for cash and all, would have experimented with teabags.

[SmokeyDave]

I started off with a Hamlet or Castella, then rapidly moved on to hitting the Tubed smokes a lot of pubs had behind the bar, if memory serves they were H. Upmann Coronas, it was a long time ago (mid-late 80's). I used to pride myself that where my friends would get through a pack of fags an evening, my cigar lasted a good portion of that time.

[mrcigar]

Yes, there are many positive attributes to the large cigar.

[daniel2001]

Monty's whilst still a student? Good style, I like it. I would have thought most students, being strapped for cash and all, would have experimented with teabags.

Once saw someone open a tea bag and smoke the innards... He wasn't very well after that.

I drank a lot less than a lot of students (at times) and spent more on getting quality food (never been much of one for ready meals) and spent the leftover on cigars.


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[Puff Scotty]

Early 70's. Villager Export, Double Diamond & whisky & american were the steps on the slippery slope.....

[Agricola]

For me it must have been when I was 15 (1990), I was with my dad and he was at his friends house. His friend opened up a wooden box to reveal his stash of Portugese cigars, I took a puff and it was the smoothest, most mellow tobacco I'd ever tasted. It wasn't until I was in my 30's and I tried a RyJ Churchill from CGars that I came across that taste again, only it was milder and had an amazing twang in the middle.
Since that Churchill I've been hooked as I can't get enough of the mellow Cuban tobacco. I gave up cigarettes when I was 22 and haven't smoked them since, nor do I have the desire to, in fact I still find cigarette smoke repulsive.

[mrcigar]

As a child i used to smoke tea in the loft through a makeshift pipe. I also smoked cinnamon sticks with tissue paper jammed in the end to control the draw; I have tried banana skins, even dried Poplar tree leaves in tissue paper.