# Have you ever smoked a cigar? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 25, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117 "2016-02-25T18:13:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/61 "2016-02-27T14:55:06Z")
I smoke several a month when the weather is good. None during the winter. When I was in Iraq we would have a group meet every night outside of our CHUs and have a cigar. Sometimes there were three of us. Sometimes 20. Those guys got me through some rough times. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/62 "2016-02-28T00:54:17Z")
I smoke two cigars a day every day. Started cigars after 15 years of not smoking at all. Started out of boredom. Only good thing I can say is that they help me fight off urge to go back to pain pills. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/63 "2016-02-28T04:03:19Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Well, no, I’d suggest that pipes and cigars are about the same. > \* > snip\* > , I set aside the next couple of hours. I ignore the telephone, I don’t care about the TV, I pay no attention to texts and e-mails. My tobacco time is my time. I enjoy my cigar or pipe with a good book, or perhaps a crossword puzzle; but regardless, a pipe or cigar allows me to define “my time,” and nobody else can make inroads upon it. Pretty much yeah, this is what I was talking about, but with cigars for me, its a more social time spent with Mrs. Guest (who introduced me to Ghurka Cigars) and scotch plus possibly one or two other select family members. Pipe time is solitary time for me. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/64 "2016-02-28T04:06:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I smoke several a month when the weather is good. None during the winter. > > When I was in Iraq we would have a group meet every night outside of our CHUs and have a cigar. Sometimes there were three of us. Sometimes 20. Those guys got me through some rough times. HAH! Do you have the shirt? My wife was elected Documentarian of the Cigar Club when she was in Iraq. And thus my love of Ghurka Cigars… (we have several gigs worth of pics of the nightly meetings and sometimes bbq of the club on a sd card somewhere from that deployment) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/65 "2016-02-28T04:37:54Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Nope. Have never smoked anything in my life. This includes cigs, pipes, cigars, and joints. Not even once. Yes, I am a bore. 🙂 Me too. I am also a bore. An asthmatic bore. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/66 "2016-02-28T07:30:41Z")
I smoke maybe ten or fifteen cigars a year. They are a treat if you know how to enjoy them. If you don’t, they will fucking kill you. ---
**Author:** ![Majestic\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Majestic\_Lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Majestic_Lee)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/67 "2016-02-28T09:27:15Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Nope. Have never smoked anything in my life. This includes cigs, pipes, cigars, and joints. Not even once. Yes, I am a bore. 🙂 But a sensible, living one… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/68 "2016-02-28T11:51:04Z")
In 1982, in order to prepare for my drive from Idaho Falls to San Francisco, I bought a pack of cheap cigars to smoke while I drove. I figured the horrible taste in my mouth would keep me awake for the boring parts of the trip. Worked out pretty well. But I never went back. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/69 "2016-02-28T12:07:05Z")
Picked up a Macanudo and enjoyed the hell out of it yesterday evening, thanks to this thread. Very nice! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/70 "2016-02-28T14:49:41Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I lived in northern Thailand in the 1980s. Specifically, Mae Hong Son province, the country’s northwesternmost province and right on the border with Burma. Burmese cigars came 50 to a pack and cost about a buck a pack or so. I used to sit out on my porch, sipping Thai whiskey and smoking those things. I’ve been reminded that the packs of 50 were two bucks a pack, not a dollar. But still, 50 cigars for $2 was nothing to sneeze at. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117/71 "2016-02-29T14:43:33Z")
I’ve never been wowed by them, and the resulting taste in my mouth the next morning definitely put me off from ever picking it up as a habit. However, I did a semester abroad for grad school in Rio de Janeiro where I was able to smoke a cuban cigar. Even with my very limited cigar smoking experience, I could see what all the rage was. It was a smooth experience, a nice buzz, and minimal mouth-tastes-like-ass the next morning. Would probably do that again, but otherwise, no. I don’t expect to every smoke a cigar again as long as I live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-smoked-a-cigar/747117.md?page=3)