First Cigar

[handlebarpipe]

What or Who influenced you and when did you first start smoking cigars?
Do you remember your first cigar experience?

I was 46 years old and although I had been an occasional pipe smoker since my teens, I first tried a pipe when I was 12, I had never smoked a quality cigar. One day I was walking past Sautters cigar shop in London and looking in the window I saw the Cigar Aficionado magazine. I also caught the wonderful aroma of cigar smoke coming out of the door. A gentleman in the shop came to the door and asked if I was interested in cigars. He invited me in and showed me their selection of cigars. I said I loved the smell of cigars and would be keen to try one. He helped me selected a cigar and shows me how to cut and it. I enjoyed smoking the Cigargar in the shop before leaving with the magazine and a few more cigars to try.
Regards, Marc

[PeeJay]

Another Marc! What's up with these parents who can't spell?

[Sean]

Another Marc! What's up with these parents who can't spell?

Hahaha my first cigar was 2 years ago and cant remember the brand i was in Egypt and drunk but my first back in uk was wintermans corona deluxe which are quite cheap but i enjoyed back then

[sheppsea]

I had a few over the years on nights out but I have no idea what they were - my first cigar of note was a Montecristo No. 3 in Cuba . I was there at around this time last year and regret now for not taking advantage of it more whilst there - I also didn't realise how much it costs over here

I started reading more about it when I got back and that's when the obsession truly took hold

[butternutsquashpie]

Handlebar! it's a long time!
been lurking here and there or just too busy for us??

but
mine was a 3 month old Siglo III. loved it from start to finish. but it's been the thing to spoil me, really. Ha! still always love a good siglo III

[ValeTudoGuy]

Another Marc! What's up with these parents who can't spell?

At least I have an excuse... Being half French.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Oh and mine was one of those little square green villagers when I was 17, I didn't have another until I was about 27... Then pretty much when I started coming on here I started taking a bigger interest. Pipes have been about since about 25-26 infrequently.

[cigarmo]

My first cigar was a montecristo no 2 in a nightclub in dublin called spirit It was around 11 years ago maybe more

[lestabantam]

A tubed upmann, silver tube in about 1992. Can't remember the vitola, but shared it with a friend. We had a few more, usually with coffee and tonic water.

[ValeTudoGuy]

My first cigar was a montecristo no 2 in a nightclub in dublin called spirit It was around 11 years ago maybe more

Start as you mean to go on eh Mo?

[cigarmo]

Start as you mean to go on eh Mo?

absolutely

[Pandyboy]

My first cigar was in 1997 with my uni mates. At the end of exams we would anyways buy a few cheap cigars and drink copious amounts of vodka to celebrate. They were nothing more than hamlets but we enjoyed them.

[Simon Bolivar]

Aye, my first would have been similar, Henri Wintermann perhaps? Given to me by my Mother for Christmas Day when I was 18yo. The smell of cigars at Christmas reminded her of her late father & her brother, both of whom smoked fags everyday but at Christmas they would treat themselves to a simple machine made. They say you have to get used to drinking beer & smoking cigars, well I loved the first beer & the first cigar. Just as well I never tried drugs!

[MarkLondon]

Well....I had a few Hamlets at Christmas with my dad starting about 20 years ago.
Then about 15 years ago someone brought me back a cigar from Cuba..not sure what it was....I didn't know what I was doing when cutting it and the whole thing unwrapped.
Then 5 years agoish I started smoking the odd Toscano when over in Italy (The Mrs is Italian so we go over 2 or 3 times a year)
Then last year had a RyJ tubo2 and really got the bug.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Well....I had a few Hamlets at Christmas with my dad starting about 20 years ago.
Then about 15 years ago someone brought me back a cigar from Cuba..not sure what it was....I didn't know what I was doing when cutting it and the whole thing unwrapped.
Then 5 years agoish I started smoking the odd Toscano when over in Italy (The Mrs is Italian so we go over 2 or 3 times a year)
Then last year had a RyJ tubo2 and really got the bug.

Hope that wasn't a Behike they brought back.