What age did you start smoking cigars?

[Jason]

As the title says.

Also, if you will, throw in your oldest cigar and how long you've had it for.

[Lee Nub]

33 , Started August 2009. Nothing old myself, 2008 codes on some RA's

[misterbulgarin]

I believe Feb 2007.

Started talking about cigars with my friend, we wanted to try one. I scoped out retailers in the area and luckily found the best cigar shop in kent that would ever exist, sadly it no longer trades; owners have vanished.

My first cigar was a Davila corona, a brand which I can no longer find and would love to try again (I've found only one place to buy, a box, which is like £110, not spending that for NCs, stupid uk prices)

[daverave999]

Started 28. Oldest is a 2001 I think.

[Drewmidorn]

Had my first cigar in 1995 when I was 21. Been smoking regularly about 10 years.

Oldest cigar in the humi? 2001... half a box of bloody awful Punch Churchills!

Oldest cigar I've smoked was pre castro... can't remember what it was, apparently it cost a fortune although I didn't pay for it and it was dull! lol

D

[satch]

Three years ago. My bro got me a (can't remember what) R&J that we shared at a bike rally. I treated myself to a humidor off flea-bay for my 50th and started from there. Got about 40 'gars now oldest about a year. Lots to learn!

[Jason]

Apolgies if I'm being dumb here, but whats a 2001?

Man, I've got a lot to learn!

[SeanP]

Started when I was 21 or so off and on as I was a habitual cigarette smoker (since age 15). Quit cigarettes in about 5 years ago and have been smoking cigars regularly for about two years now.

[jdawg]

Apolgies if I'm being dumb here, but whats a 2001?

Man, I've got a lot to learn!

that's the year the cigar was made...

[Jason]

that's the year the cigar was made...

Ah, thanks for clearing that up! :thumb:

[jdawg]

I started smoking cigars in the military when I was stationed in Tampa, FL. I was about 19-20 years of age. Some friends and I went to Ybor City and I was entranced by all of the cigar shops. I have never looked back, except for wishing that I was 20 again. :biggrin1:

[jkim05]

Started smoking cigars when I was 20. My oldest cigars are probably some clear havanas from the 40s/50s that I've had for a couple years. Other than that I've got mostly recent production with a few boxes from the late 90's and a handful of stuff from before that.

[HabanoSy]

Started aged 32 in May of 2005...

Oldest cigar smoked, a 1980 H.Upmann Sir Winston from Cheeky Boo (Chelsea)...

Oldest box in collection, RyJ Prince of Wales 1996...

Cheers, HabanoSy

[celsis]

Started smoking cigars when I was in the Fleet Auxiliary. Believe it or not, I bought a box of King Eddies and found them disgusting! We went to Long Beach, Ca., and I bought a couple of Punch (NC) and a couple of "wild" cigars that I can't recall the name of. I realised then that cigars were much tastier than cigs and that King Eddies were awful!

BTW, I remember that King Eddies smelt like old socks and that the box had, in very small writing, "contains non tobacco products." That got me thinking about what the hell was in them!

[saggel]

Started when I was 20, in my sophomore year in the University... :cowboyic9:

[Leojvs]

I started smoking cigars when I was about 24. My oldest cigars currently are some POS Punch and Hoyo Churchills from 2001. Like trying to smoke the leg of your dining table. lol.

Otherwise I have a nice Punch (NC) Rare Corojo from 2006, a Camacho Liberty from 03, smoked a Party Lusitanias from 01 on NYD. Some older, mostly new.


-Joel-

[Deano]

Started in June 2008...I was 28...

[Robusto]

Started nicking my Dad's cigars - a mixture of shit and Cubans - when I was about 13 and would smoke them off behind the garden shed or upstairs at home in the toilet. Really exciting times. :smoke:

Have kept up a moderated badass cigar habit ever since which has become increasingly refined.

I used to like it when I was a Secret Child Of Evil.

[Kdot]

started at 23, oldest stick 1999:41:

[ontheborder]

As we are talking numbers, I started smoking cigars late October 2006 at 33 plus 10 months. My Dad smokes a pipe for instance and he always has the air of a relaxed man. Cigs in truth never really appealed to me, so it had to be cigars all the way. Before I bought my first set of sample cigars I did some background research on the do's and dont's ie cigar etiquette, good cigars for beginners etc. My cigar retailer was more than helpful and started me off on mild cigars to begin with gradually moving through the strength range. The byword all the while for myself was hobby as opposed to a habit. I have a book of taste notes which may sound a bit nerdy. Write down my thoughts usually after smoking a new cigar. Normally I would have a cigar in the morning and again at night before I hit the sack, the size of cigar often reflects how much time I have on my hands to smoke it. Hence it could be a corona/petit corona in the morning and a robusto/churchill say in the evening.

[Deano]

I think we should all contribute to tasting notes on the Wiki, we could build up quite a collection. What do people think?

[Flying Cigar]

First cigar at age 14 (1967) in Spain.

Oldest was from 1903, smoked in 2003 with friends, bit dry but still some taste.

[CakeySnakey]

Oldest was from 1903


100 years! bloody hell thats old!

[Flying Cigar]

Yes,quite old.

They were still in their original packaging from a certain Otto Sennhauser, a cigar merchant in Strasbourg/Alsace, but preserved lately in a ziplock bag.

The original prices were still on the back of the packaging, ranging from 8 to 40 "Pfennig" ... pennies - according to size.

Main thing was the fun and the experience.

Here's the link :

http://www.flyingcigar.de/smoking_cigars/2003_11_100-jahrige_zigarren_und_alter_wein.php

Sorry, text is in German.

Nino

[Big_T_UK]

First year of GCSE's. I took up a pipe in my second year of GCSE's. When I went to Uni my friends wanted to put other stuff than tobacco in my pipe so I went to back to cigars. I have smoked the pipe about five times since. I am 33 now.

T.

[crslaytor]

I have started when i was hmm 22y old.
The oldest i have smoke was Cohiba Maduro 5 Magicos, found it pretty big, but the bad side was,friend of friend of mine forgot a pack at home and by the time i have found it, was too dry and wasted :/ not really good experience :frown:

[EugeneSax]

Precocious - moi?

I probably smoked my first cigar at about 9 or 10.

At junior school a few friends & I made pipes by hollowing out acorns & using the straw from our daily milk (obviously pre-Thatcher!).

Normally we'd smoke dead leaves collected from the playing fields, but one of our number used to nick the occaisional cigar from his dad (Hamlets I'd imagine, but they might have been puros).

This was a passing fad & I probably smoked my first stick proper, a Daneman Brazillian or similar, in my teens during familly holidays in Greece. I then spent most of my 20's cigar-less puffing cancer sticks but managed to quit after almost exactly 10 years and finally tried my firts puro (a tubed R&J I'd picked up at a corporate do a few years previously) at the tender age of 41.

I've got a single pre-revolution Ramon Allones in it's box which came as part of a lot from Christies about 5 years ago & i've also got an unopened box of pre-rev Farahitos (as reviewd elsewhere).

[Stevieboy]

I tried cigars in my teens when I smoked fags....I of course inhaled and thought a lung had deflated :eek:

I gave up the fags about 10 years ago and started proper cigar-fancying about 6 years ago....haven't looked back :41::41:

[Jason]

I tried cigars in my teens when I smoked fags....I of course inhaled and thought a lung had deflated :eek:

I inhaled yesterday too and man I can tell why they recommend just blowing it back out lol.

[Rocco]

first cigar I smoked was a RyJ churchill tubo at 9 years old. My best friend found it in his father's collection and we went out back to smoke it. Boy was his dad pissed. In my teen years, I would have the occasional cigar 4-5 times a year, but started to regularly smoke them when I was 24. What started out as a weekly tradition on Saturday nights, became a daily tradition for me whenever possible. The oldest cigar in my collection, is ironically some RyJ Churchills(no tubo) that are now 12 years old.

[yiorgos]

I started smoking cigars when I was 24, when a Cohiba Robusto was offered to me. Before that I had a backwood or backgammon once or twice!

Oldest cigar in my humi is a SLR Corona from the early 80's,oldest box is a box of Bolivar Coronas Gigantes from April '99, the month and year my step son was born.

Oldest cigar I have smoked was a La Corona Policromia from late 50's/early 60's from JJ Foxes(The one with the purple label) (http://cigars.ie/2009/06/treasures-in-jj-fox-dublin/).

[Stevieboy]

I inhaled yesterday too and man I can tell why they recommend just blowing it back out lol.
LOL!! It's fecking agony isn't it :der:

[Simon-JG-hr]

I started at 19 years old. It was something with which to occupy the time whilst on night watches when training on Dartmoor.

[Pantomimehorse]

started about 24 I think, but only got serious about 2 years ago

[mackem keith]

started smoking cigars in my late teens to early twenties..:41:

[snooky]

Always had the odd cigar when on holiday after a meal with a brandy, Im now 53 started only a couple of years ago , seemed the only right thing to do .
:smoke:

[cigars]

I smoke 15 years of the cigar. I had 21 years when I smoked first cigar.
I had the oldest cigar from 1999 - Punch Churchill

[LukeBird]

18 when I was at university, although they weren't proper cigars! ;)
Started again around 20/21 with a friend of mine and have smoked properly since then! That and have built up a nice collection of "smoking things", humidors & cigars! :41:

[Gordonbcb]

I'm a late comer really, my brother always enjoyed cigars from a young age but I didn't start until about 5 years ago.

Was at a friends wedding in Munich and was offered a cigar by a big German bloke who turned up at the wedding in a kilt with the same tartan as me.

Haven't a clue what it was but thoroughly enjoyed it and haven't stopped since.

Wish I could tell you that I have cigars that have been ageing since then but I have no patience to keep them any length of time. Best I ever managed was a CAO Sopranos edition that I bought in Melbourne and kept for a couple of years.

[Morris]

I am still brand new to cigars. First cuban was 4 months ago at age 29. The oldest cigars in my humidor are the cuban crafter torpedos and robusto sized cogars that came free with the humidor itself. I'm not a big fan of them but can't seem to throw them away.

[Arrow111]

started when i was 25, tried all the different cigars i could get my hands on and found my way home to cubans. the rest is history.

[Gryph]

Wife and I always ended up smoking something terrible when out and having passed a certain alcohol amount (anything could get hands on) :eek:.

Then with a trip to Cuba booked, recently decided that, yes, rather do like them, time to get researching and serious. 31 for first Cuban, and only had 3 so far, but loved them!

[rollzst]

Started when i was about 13 but only the odd hamlet inbetween cigarettes! I started smoking the occasional cuban cigar when i was 16 and started them properly when i was about 23

[lakeside toker]

I started at a late age, 51. Hope to have many years to catch up.

[ronin]

I was 27 when I started.