Giving Cigars

[Robusto]

My sax player band bud has just turned 40 so I am giving him three good Partagas, Juan Lopez and Ramon Allones cigars as a present at his party today.

He is a champion cigarette man. He is forever on-ciggie when not on-sax.

He's actually really struggling to give up cigarettes and couples his need for them to a sort of anxiety cycle.

So I will be handing these three potent phalluses over in the hope that it might introduce a better and more easily dosed way of smoking.

Oh yeah. And a smoking method which smells and tastes erotically angelic.

He is a friend so would hand them back if he doesn't like them lol.

I just wondered if anyone had "converted" a cigarette hoover 100% by introducing them to cigars?...

[whisky77]

Lack of culture.

Have never actually converted anyone 100%, although i have let a few lads i work with try out some cigars and in general they were impressed with the taste of a decent cigar.

Although I do remember smoking some Epicure #2 with a cigarette smoker years ago, and on initially smoking the cigar he made a face, and his comment was that it didn`t taste anything like a Wintermans or Castella.

Some people have no culture at all.

[Rennie]

I have never converted a ciggy smoker into a cigar smoker, but did convert my non-smoking father-in-law into a cigar smoker!

Needless to say it did not go down well with the mother-in-law.

Luckily it did not last for too long and he has gone back to being a non-smoker!

[Robusto]

I came back on the ferry from Calais yesterday with a female colleague who was buying tobacco, cigarettes and cigars for all and sundry.

She told me her husband smoked cigars and liked a Hamlet every night.

I said I liked to smoke a cigar most days.


"Oh! I wouldn't have had you down as a cigar smoker, Bryan!
What do you smoke?".

"I smoke Havana cigars".

"Oh... I've never heard of those. What are they?".

[Stevieboy]

Did you get any loot whilst away Bryan?

[Robusto]

I was a good boy when away. You can't knock one of our beauts off when you're in charge of a load of kids and with staff on one of these jaunts. It's all no smoking.

I went across the road to a TABAC and hunted Cubans. There were some unkempt twiglets in a glass display case and I avoided them like the plague.

I was desperate - lol - so I bought five long ********* from Sumatra and carried them round in my back sack with some rattling matches. I felt comforted, rebellious and pumped up in a secret way.

No other TABACs on the itinerary so came home Havana-less.

We had a packed lunch along the way in a park in Boulogne and it hit me there - and several other places - that the French are still a huge smoking nation.

The French teachers looking after small kids in a playground were all smoking away. I have to say - given the magnitude and cloud formation of fat Havanas - that I would never smoke in front of my pupils. Even if I toked cigarettes, I wouldn't do that.

The French puff on like superheros. They amaze me.

[Mr Omneo]

The French puff on like superheros. They amaze me.

I remember staying with my ex in Nice and one morning as we were heading to the beach she said we would stop off in some caf? and see some friends, we arrived at about 8.30am and they were sitting there, saying nothing just smoking away and the ashtray had about 20-30 ends in it when we arrived.

After an hour i insisted we leave as I was getting tired of their, "just one more cigarette" nonsense and when we did leave they had filled a 2nd ashtray that they had to take from another table. They were just the same when they visited me in london a few months later. every time we stopped for a coffee it was 10mins for the coffee and 1 hr for for a smoke, drove me crazy!

[Deano]

Funny you should mention the French smoking habit. When I was over there a few weeks back that's one major thing I noticed - nearly everyone smoked.

I stayed with my uncle who's a chain smoker, and so is his French girlfriend. It's all rolling tabacco - I couldn't catch a breath of fresh air. Fortunately he took to a Monte PE I gave him.

Still. They smoke like chimneys.

[cj121]

I came back on the ferry from Calais yesterday with a female colleague who was buying tobacco, cigarettes and cigars for all and sundry.

She told me her husband smoked cigars and liked a Hamlet every night.

I said I liked to smoke a cigar most days.


"Oh! I wouldn't have had you down as a cigar smoker, Bryan!
What do you smoke?".

"I smoke Havana cigars".

"Oh... I've never heard of those. What are they?".

You didn't tell her they were phat b'stards that you cram between your lips then?

[nicwing]

My daughter (11) has a French day at school this week and her and a little friend wanted to go to the joke stall at the local market on Saturday to buy imitation ciggies so that they could be "authentic"

[snooky]

Yeh ive converted my brother to cigars, after he had an op to his tendons on his arm [severed his tendons ,muscles by falling on a beer glass ,story on request ?] the surgeon said the nerves would not grow whilst he smoked, his craving was still there hence the cigars ,though he mainly smokes the factory made rubbish you buy in pubs , so still a bit of work to do there.

[cj121]

That sounds awful, sorry to hear about your bro's arm, but nice work with the conversion