Cigarette smokers anonymous.

[michael69]

Hello, I'm michael69 and I also smoke cigarettes

Rolling tobacco only mind you (Gauloises); can't abide machine-made packet cigarettes.

Come on, 'fess up - I know there are others!

[cj121]

(Standing up nervously)

Hello, my name's CJ121...and I smoke cigarettes too

Gauloise? Takes me back to my early twenties that Michael69

[G-man]

(Standing up nervously)Come on, 'fess up - I know there are others!
Hello, my name's GSS...and I smoke cigarettes tooToo many years

[Jimmeh]

HEATHENS!

[michael69]

HEATHENS!

No, no..... (it's alright, I know you're joking..... are you??)

I appreciate a PROPER smoke as much as anyone (and spend a lot of money on 'em too!)

Just that... well I also enjoy smoking my rollies!

plus.......

I'm addicted !

[michael69]

Gauloise? Takes me back to my early twenties that Michael69

Most "cigar-like" flavour for me; black tobacco has a bit of that profile.

[Jimmeh]

No, no..... (it's alright, I know you're joking..... are you??)

I appreciate a PROPER smoke as much as anyone (and spend a lot of money on 'em too!)

Just that... well I also enjoy smoking my rollies!

plus.......

I'm addicted !

Of course i'm joking - If you are on here, then i have no doubt that you appreciate "PROPER smoke" as i do, and so therefore - i shall let you off! ;-)

[michael69]

Of course i'm joking - If you are on here, then i have no doubt that you appreciate "PROPER smoke" as i do, and so therefore - i shall let you off! ;-)

Cheers!

Also (cripes, I'm really barely all here), I inhale a little bit, some of the time when I'm smoking a cigar (before I get hammered for that, apparently that's what many of the rollers do in Cuba!)

Don't get me wrong, it's certainly not the whole thing, and it tends to be the last little bit of a draw.

[Robusto]

I mucked about half-heartedly with Marlboros for a couple of years before our kids were born before realising I didn't get anything from the habit at all. If I were to go back there now - and I have to admit I've been tempted when out gigging with no cigar and with cigarette-smoking mates - I know my family would slaughter me. No - I enjoy cigars and I have all the family 'on my side'. I'm winning.

Sorry I can't fess up a 'real' cigarette habit, chaps, but I will smoke French and Greek ones when on holiday.

[moidoid]

I don't think that you can be criticized for smoking Gauloises. I reckon they are the cigar of the cigarette world!
In fact I wish you hadn't mentioned them, I'm getting all wistful for a drag...

[daverave999]

I smoked fags since I was 13, until about February. Since discovering decent cigars I haven't felt the need so much as I know I can have my nicotine fix in another way (I don't inhale cigars).
I'll still have the occasional one when I'm wasted but don't feel the need to carry on the next day. I've not given up, I'm just not smoking.

[Robusto]

I don't think that you can be criticized for smoking Gauloises. I reckon they are the cigar of the cigarette world!
In fact I wish you hadn't mentioned them, I'm getting all wistful for a drag...

With you, moid.

[michael69]

Yes, I have to say I really love the Gauloises flavour (I don't get the packets though, only the rolling tobacco)....

Very strong I guess, but I find all the other tobaccos really bland!

I get it sent over from Geneva (where the price is less than half what it is here).

It does have a certain cigar-like flavour that's for sure; it's actually not that far off the taste of some of the havana minis if you've ever tried those.

As to my other point....

Does anyone else inhale just a little of the smoke from their cigar?

I did once "forget" and took in an entire draw of the Lusitanias I was smoking at the time

...Probably not recommended!

[ACMCC]

Yes I thinks it's fairly common Michael, (especially from ex ciggi smokers) I inhale probably 5% of the milder cigars, I gave up smoking cigarettes about 20 years ago, been smoking basically what the local tobacconist sells up to about 4/5 years ago, then Cuban's. when I switched 20 years ago I'd inhale maybe 20/30% but been reducing it over the years. All the cigar smokers I know over here inhale, some 100% I gave one of the guys a Partagas p2 a few months ago, and he took an almighty drag inhaling it all, and then said it was a bit strong for him...lol I did warn him, he normally smokes H. Upmann purito's.

I think it's impossible to inhale none at all if you are in an enclosed space (the car, smoking room etc) the passive smoke must be 1% or so. When I go to London or any other big city, I can smell the pollution from traffic etc, which sometimes makes me feel quite ill, this I did not notice when I lived there 9 years ago, but living in a place with very clean air make's it very noticeable, all my friends from London can't detect it, their used to it, this can't be that good for you, so I figure I'm swapping one for the other... I am slowly reducing this percentage down to a minimum though.....

You can buy Cuban cigarettes from 1001 which are made with 100% Cuban tobacco. I brought a carton and gave it to a friend to try, he said It was just like a mild mini cigar, he did not like it as he is not a cigar smoker, (preferred the chemicals in B&H!!!) so I gave them to a ciggi/cigar smoker and he loved them...

They are a very good price too, he only tried the RyJ's though, worth a try I think, if you are a cigarette smoker who like's cigars also.

[celsis]

In my younger days I smoked all osrts of things, legal and ILlegal. And yes I still smoke Dunhill International and seegars! My lungs must be in tatters!