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From: : "Dave" <nospam@nospam.net> Subject: Re: first cigar Date: 17 Mar 2003 Newsgroups: alt.smokers.cigars

If you aren't a tobacco user now I would go for something mild... Macanudo Hampton Court or Hyde Park, or maybe a Fuente 8-5-8 or Chateau Fuente. If you are a cigarette smoker or use smokeless tobacco you can probably handle whatever looks good to you. As far as lighting and smoking the thing. I guess some people are real caught up on formality... but I'm not. I just find the cap, when you look at a cigar you will see what I mean by cap, and cut the end. If you cut beyond the cap the wrapper might come off... not the end of the world... I've smoked cigars with wrapper peeling, but it isn't what you are trying for... so don't cut all the cap off. You can use a cigar cutter, or a knife, or anything that will cut. I've used my teeth. Alternatively, you can buy a little punch type cutter that takes a plug out of the end of the cigar. If you buy from a tobacconist or cigar bar or whatever you can ask them to cut the cigar for you. No big deal. Just don't cut the whole cap off and you are smoking. As far as lighting, I probably don't do this "right" either, but it works fine for me. Hold the cigar, after you've cut it, in one hand... and your lighter in the other. Put the cigar at a slight angle into the flame, and turn the cigar around and around to evenly "toast" the end. Sometimes I can get the whole thing going this way... but usually after I toast the end I just stick the cigar in my mouth, hold the flame about 1 inch from the end of the cigar, and puff and roll the cigar until it is lit evenly all the way around. I hold the cigar for about 30 seconds and look at how pretty it looks... all lit up nicely like that... and then I smoke it :) I think there is protocol for how fast you should smoke as well. I ignore it. I smoke as fast or slow as I want to smoke. To me, some cigars taste better when you really get down on them, and others are better smoked more slowly. Just puff the thing and you will have no problems. If you are a non-tobacco user take it easy at first... once you get rolling it just comes naturally. I don't inhale cigars either, ever... and I am a cigarette smoker. If you don't smoke, I suggest you avoid inhaling as well. For that matter, I suggest you avoid inhaling a cigar in any case... but some people do inhale the things. You might want to try inhaling just a tad bit and see for yourself. You don't have tastebuds in your lungs though... and you get nicotine from cigars from the inside lining of your mouth... so I see no point in inhaling the things. But if you enjoy inhaling by all means do so. The whole point it to enjoy the cigar! I think there is also a protocol for how much of the cigar you should smoke. I've even heard people say you should never smoke beyond the band. BS. When you get near the band, carefully pull it off. At this point the cigar should be warm, which loosens the glue and allows the band to come off fairly easily without tearing the wrapper. I don't usually take the wrapper off until this point, unless it is just so loose that it is falling off. Smoke the cigar as long as you wish. If it is a good cigar, I will smoke it untill I can't hold it anymore, until the burning pain in my fingers is too much to bear. If it is a great cigar, I will stick a pin in it and smoke it much like some folks like to smoke a certain illegal product. Those great ones I will smoke until there is almost nothing left. If the cigar is just ok I hope you enjoy your first cigar, and your 50th, and your 1000th... and on and on! Dave "tom jone" <transwarp@Net-link.net> wrote in message news:v7d4bifhusvnd9@corp.supernews.com... - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - > hi > i was looking for a good frist time smoker cigar and some tips on how to > light and smoke it > thanks

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