After reading sevencardstuds kids encounter with his humidor what was your first encounter with a cigar good or bad? I know mine was borrowing my dads packs of wine tipped cigars and chewing the the crap out of them then trying to smoke them. It didn't turn out well. Got a leather belt for my efforts and almost turned a different green color my mother laughed as father took out his can of whoop ass.

bought a pack of cigars from the drug store. the green American market candela. smoked them all in one day. i was already smoking so i didn't get sick. about 7th grade.

My dad caught me stealing his cigarettes when I was in 5th grade and made me smoke the whole pack. He threw in a cigar for good measure. I was sick as hell. It kind of backfired on him though because I ended up smoking anyway.

Nothing so dramatic here. I was curious and covertly smoked a Black & Mild in the alley behind the convenience store at the tail end of college. A month or two later, I shared an 8 pack of Backwoods Honey on the lake while boating with my brother. The latter was very pleasant and made the social aspect appeal to me.

No sickness for me until I had my third real cigar by myself a couple of months ago and smoked it way too fast. Learned my lesson in a hurry.

It was the summer of 92, her skin was lightly kissed by the sun, I believe she was from Nicaragua, he body was firm and the wife was out..
Oh wait yeah the cigar, I don't remember that one

15 years old, a shared pack of Colt's Wine Tipped...I believe it's a Canadian thing.

Mid twenties smoked a cigar in Cuba...turned a little green I dare say

Tried again at 40...started with Macanudo, and the rest is history.

wow i dont even remember. I had smoked some black n milds "back in the day". But then again "back in the day" I pretty much smoked everything that was smokable . I was probably 15-16 I think

Think I was 5 or 6. Great grand father was smoking a cigar. I asked him if it was good. He put it by my mouth told me to suck in. I did and coughed for awhile.

Mine was at a bachelor party.  We walked into a cigar shop and bought cheapies, I hated it and didn't mind that it went out on me.  Then several years later somebody split a cuban with me and transformed my impression of cigars, thus the journey began...

I was 10 years old . . . my 13 year old cousin got cigarettes somewhere and our grandfather caught us.  Took us out behind the barn and told us hat if we wanted to smoke we had to smoke like men.  Made us each smoke a candela Optima (which is what he smoked) and said that he wasn't going to waste these and we HAD to finish it.  I recall turning greener than the candela and puking on he side of the barn (and then he made me hose that off!)

Cured me of any smoking urge for another 10 years.

Had just turned 18 and was like yeeeah I can buy whatever I want besides alcohols. So ended up buying a pack of Black & Milds and a zippo lighter.

I was taking my dads cigarettes around 14.  Marlboro's were $8 a carton on base and my dad had at least 6 cartons in the closet and never noticed any missing.  As far as a cigar, I used to buy swisher sweets with the wooden tip in high school at the gas station.  Me and my friends thought that was the coolest thing.  I went about 21 years without smoking any cigar when I got introduced to the premium cigar we smoke today.  I never knew these were out there.

I started with Tjiuana Smalls at about 15 or 16.

I had alot of Uncles that smoked cigars that where around when I was younger. (Man I wish I could smoke a few with those old timers now) Never really thought much about them until I turned 18 and I was given that first rocky as a gift and I have been smoking cigars off and on ever since.

I was smoking Cigs when I was about 12 years old (when I could get away with it. Used to pull tobacco leaves out of my grandfathers curing barn and roll it in notebook paper to smoke. Not sure whether to call those cig or cigars  
First real cigar was a Swisher Sweet bought at a place in town that didn't care how old you were. They sold me and my friends whatever we wanted.
Joe

QuoteCfickter - 8/29/2015  1:21 PM

It was the summer of 92, her skin was lightly kissed by the sun, I believe she was from Nicaragua, he body was firm and the wife was out..
Oh wait yeah the cigar, I don't remember that one

Chuck that was great.



 My First experience was with a box of pre embargo Cubans my dad had. I was 11 or 12 years old I want to say. I took a couple and proceeded to smoke each one back to back while sit in the Garage with the door closed. It was love at first sight. By my junior year in HS I was smoking Macanudo Ascots on a regular basis

the first cigar I had  was in Afghanistan, from a care package. there musta been 200 cigars in the box. after coming back early one morning from an all night foot patrol my PLT SGT gave us each one. (and kept the rest for himself). really great cigar forget what it was but it was a boxed pressed something or another....  im an ex cig smoker  it wasn't until I was out until I really started smoking.

Quotetucktuck911 - 8/31/2015  12:02 PM

the first cigar I had  was in Afghanistan, from a care package. there musta been 200 cigars in the box. after coming back early one morning from an all night foot patrol my PLT SGT gave us each one. (and kept the rest for himself). really great cigar forget what it was but it was a boxed pressed something or another....  im an ex cig smoker  it wasn't until I was out until I really started smoking.

That's pretty cool.  We have the Cigars For Troops drive that nwb runs every year going on right now.  Neat to hear someone who a like effort turned to the hobby.

I quit smoking when I was in my early thirties and took uo smoking old port cigers.Use to break them in half smoke half at a time.At this time I inhaled them I guess was substatuting for cigs.Anyways six years ago went to Cuba picked up some sticks there and progressed towhere I am now.

I have a uncle who on my 17th birthday sat me down with a beer and a cigar he had. It was nice, we smoked and drank and talked. just the two of us. we are still close to this day even though I haven't seen him in years.

I think I was around 22-23 some friends and I bought some philly blunts I think it was. Went to a party thinking we were cool.. I couldn't get that ash tray taste out of my mouth for a couple of days it seemed... Didn't smoke another cigar until my 40th Birthday. We were at a Bocce ball place and a friend bought me a cigar. I think it was RP edge... I was pretty lit so don't quite remember everything... Anyways 2 years later I'm enjoying the hobby a lot.

Very interesting encounters. I wish my kids had not had this one. I did attempt to make many precautions to prevent this. With the exception of a lock. It was placed high out of their reach. I did not smoke cigars around them. Talked to them about not touching them etc.

My first encounter was at a wedding. I recall smelling the cigar, which I later learned was flavoured, and loved the smell. I just had to have one. I went straight out and bought a cigar. I had no idea the one the guy had so I just bought it based on the store guys suggestion. It was actually a bad place to buy a cigar, it was basically a grocery store that happen to sell the cigars. The guy really had no selection and no knowledge. My cigar smelled good, but not nearly as good as the one from the wedding.  I did enjoy the cigar but did not smoke another cigar for a year or so. But slowly over time I started smoking them more regularly and learning more and more. Which eventually lead me to here.

Heh! My first encounter with a cigar was when I was about 5 or 6. My grandpa smoked King Edwards. He laid one down one time and I picked it up and I puffed on it for a bit and thought I was just like him. I think it took about four or five puffs for the nicotine to kick in and I'm sure I turned as green as grass. All I remember from that point on was puking my guts out. Should have taught me a life lesson but it didn't....so here I am!  

Quotetucktuck911 - 8/31/2015  10:02 AM

the first cigar I had  was in Afghanistan, from a care package. there musta been 200 cigars in the box. after coming back early one morning from an all night foot patrol my PLT SGT gave us each one. (and kept the rest for himself). really great cigar forget what it was but it was a boxed pressed something or another....  im an ex cig smoker  it wasn't until I was out until I really started smoking.

So what you are saying 8 guys got one cigar each and he kept 192 sticks????? What the!