Cigars: Welcome to the lifestyle

[Sebastianus Rex]

Your lungs, i thnk i can hear your respiration from very close.

Nonsense, Winston Churchill smoked 8-10 cigars daily until he died at the age of 91...as The Lawspeaker stated, the secret is on the pairing, as long as you consume copious amounts of fine liquor, like Churchill did, you can smoke all you want and still die of old age.

[Sebastianus Rex]

I'll have one of these tomorrow.


A highly recommended choice for an introduction to Habanos, as subtle and easy as Cubans can be. Reasonably priced also.

[Sebastianus Rex]

At this very moment a subtropical evening, 26.4 degrees on my terrace and enjoying the 2nd third of a Nicaraguan Don Thomas robusto wich I bought on a humidor pack for 4.5€.

Very well made, burns very softly and evenly, in perfect conservation thanks to the humidor pack, very pleasant texture bringing up a silky smoke, flavours of...well just tobacco, very well made cigar but lacks character and the richness and intensity of flavours (earth, coffee, spices, leather etc) of my precious habanos.

Nevertheless, good for begginers or if you are experienced smoker with a cold/flu/covid.

[The Lawspeaker]

A cheap solution for me is now Riverside "wilde cigarros"

[The Lawspeaker]

Cuban cigars hold a reputation as the world's most opulent tobacco product. A box of good quality Habanos can cost thousands of dollars. Every hand-rolled Cuban cigar goes through about 500 manual tasks from seed to cigar. But over the last 25 years, cigars made in other countries in the Caribbean and Central America have become comparable in quality, consistency, and cost. Some experts suggest that up to 95% of all Cuban cigars in the US, which hasn't allowed the import of Cuban cigars since the 1962 embargo, are actually counterfeit. So why are Cuban cigars so desirable? And is that why they're so expensive?

An introduction to cigars and cigar smoking for first-time smokers and novices. Curt Diebel is a second-generation owner/operator of Diebel's Sportsman Gallery in Kansas City, MO. http://diebelsg.com/