What age did you start smoking cigars?

[Leojvs]

I started smoking cigars when I was about 24. My oldest cigars currently are some POS Punch and Hoyo Churchills from 2001. Like trying to smoke the leg of your dining table. lol.

Otherwise I have a nice Punch (NC) Rare Corojo from 2006, a Camacho Liberty from 03, smoked a Party Lusitanias from 01 on NYD. Some older, mostly new.


-Joel-

[Deano]

Started in June 2008...I was 28...

[Robusto]

Started nicking my Dad's cigars - a mixture of shit and Cubans - when I was about 13 and would smoke them off behind the garden shed or upstairs at home in the toilet. Really exciting times.

Have kept up a moderated badass cigar habit ever since which has become increasingly refined.

I used to like it when I was a Secret Child Of Evil.

[Kdot]

started at 23, oldest stick 1999

[ontheborder]

As we are talking numbers, I started smoking cigars late October 2006 at 33 plus 10 months. My Dad smokes a pipe for instance and he always has the air of a relaxed man. Cigs in truth never really appealed to me, so it had to be cigars all the way. Before I bought my first set of sample cigars I did some background research on the do's and dont's ie cigar etiquette, good cigars for beginners etc. My cigar retailer was more than helpful and started me off on mild cigars to begin with gradually moving through the strength range. The byword all the while for myself was hobby as opposed to a habit. I have a book of taste notes which may sound a bit nerdy. Write down my thoughts usually after smoking a new cigar. Normally I would have a cigar in the morning and again at night before I hit the sack, the size of cigar often reflects how much time I have on my hands to smoke it. Hence it could be a corona/petit corona in the morning and a robusto/churchill say in the evening.

[Deano]

I think we should all contribute to tasting notes on the Wiki, we could build up quite a collection. What do people think?

[Flying Cigar]

First cigar at age 14 (1967) in Spain.

Oldest was from 1903, smoked in 2003 with friends, bit dry but still some taste.

[CakeySnakey]

Oldest was from 1903

100 years! bloody hell thats old!

[Flying Cigar]

Yes,quite old.

They were still in their original packaging from a certain Otto Sennhauser, a cigar merchant in Strasbourg/Alsace, but preserved lately in a ziplock bag.

The original prices were still on the back of the packaging, ranging from 8 to 40 "Pfennig" ... pennies - according to size.

Main thing was the fun and the experience.

Here's the link :

http://www.flyingcigar.de/smoking_ci...alter_wein.php

Sorry, text is in German.

Nino

[Big_T_UK]

First year of GCSE's. I took up a pipe in my second year of GCSE's. When I went to Uni my friends wanted to put other stuff than tobacco in my pipe so I went to back to cigars. I have smoked the pipe about five times since. I am 33 now.

T.

[crslaytor]

I have started when i was hmm 22y old.
The oldest i have smoke was Cohiba Maduro 5 Magicos, found it pretty big, but the bad side was,friend of friend of mine forgot a pack at home and by the time i have found it, was too dry and wasted :/ not really good experience

[EugeneSax]

Precocious - moi?

I probably smoked my first cigar at about 9 or 10.

At junior school a few friends & I made pipes by hollowing out acorns & using the straw from our daily milk (obviously pre-Thatcher!).

Normally we'd smoke dead leaves collected from the playing fields, but one of our number used to nick the occaisional cigar from his dad (Hamlets I'd imagine, but they might have been puros).

This was a passing fad & I probably smoked my first stick proper, a Daneman Brazillian or similar, in my teens during familly holidays in Greece. I then spent most of my 20's cigar-less puffing cancer sticks but managed to quit after almost exactly 10 years and finally tried my firts puro (a tubed R&J I'd picked up at a corporate do a few years previously) at the tender age of 41.

I've got a single pre-revolution Ramon Allones in it's box which came as part of a lot from Christies about 5 years ago & i've also got an unopened box of pre-rev Farahitos (as reviewd elsewhere).

[Stevieboy]

I tried cigars in my teens when I smoked fags....I of course inhaled and thought a lung had deflated

I gave up the fags about 10 years ago and started proper cigar-fancying about 6 years ago....haven't looked back

[Jason]

I tried cigars in my teens when I smoked fags....I of course inhaled and thought a lung had deflated

I inhaled yesterday too and man I can tell why they recommend just blowing it back out lol.

[Rocco]

first cigar I smoked was a RyJ churchill tubo at 9 years old. My best friend found it in his father's collection and we went out back to smoke it. Boy was his dad pissed. In my teen years, I would have the occasional cigar 4-5 times a year, but started to regularly smoke them when I was 24. What started out as a weekly tradition on Saturday nights, became a daily tradition for me whenever possible. The oldest cigar in my collection, is ironically some RyJ Churchills(no tubo) that are now 12 years old.