Anyone only smoked cigars?

[HabanoSy]

Never smoked cigarettes...

Just 100% fine puros...

Cheers, HabanoSy

[rokkitsci]

Unlike Clinton...

Started with cigarettes as a teen (sigh).

Discovered the pleasures of mary jane in kollidge.

Switched to a pipe shortly before I got married and have never smoked another cigarette since.

Poofed my pipes for about 30 years before discovering the pleasures of a lurvely hand rolled stogie (CC and NC) 3-4 years ago.

And, yes, I inhale. Everything. The cigs, the dope, the pipe, and the stogies.

I know, I know: Cardinal Sin No. 1 of Cigar Smoking.

But the way I look at it is that you wouldn't go to your favo(u)rite steak house and order a perfect filet or prime rib only to cut off a piece, chew it, savo(u)r the magnificent flavo(u)rs, and then spit it out, would you?

Similarly, I could never understand the effete snobs who taste wine by swirling it around, sticking their nose in the glass, taking a sip and sloshing it back and forth from cheek to cheek like they were rinsing with mouthwash, then SPITTING OUT PERFECTLY GOOD WINE! Okay, okay, much of what we taste is in the nose; however, it's called tasting for ghodz sakes. That means ingesting. Down the gullet. Into the breadbasket.

Now I'm not espousing the cause of inhaling your stogie. If you haven't been conditioning your pulmonary system for almost 50 years, as I have, then sucking stogie smoke down your gullet is very likely to kill you to death, wish it had killed you to death, or at least make you quite dizzy and weak-kneed. However, on the other hand, 'tisn't fair to condemn me because I do. The simple fact is that if I don't inhale my 'gar, the only flavo(u)r I can distinguish is burning leaves! S'truth!

[PoohBore]

Never smoked a cigarette and never will. Started cigars on holiday in cuba coming up for 2 years ago. I only smoke as a form of relaxation hence the infrequency of my postings in the what are smoking today threads.

[Robusto]

There was something on Radio 4 the other day about the new stringency of the anti-smoking laws in Holland. In a dope cafe, a customer was busted by an off-duty Policeman when he put some shreds of tobacco into his cannabis balloon. If he had not added the tobacco, he would not have been busted.

[moosekelly]

I smoked cigarettes from 15 to 27 years old. I was up to 30 a day by the end. I quit for a year when I was 23, but I made the decision to start again for a reason that eludes me now but was important then! I haven't had a fag for nearly a year now and I feel better for it.
I'm really enjoying Cigars, though I'm trying to keep them as occasional as possible. Cold weather helps. Working on building sites doesn't. I reckon it must have been hard for you guys who never smoked cigs to get used to the smell of the Big Stick, no? Most of my friends who smoke the odd cigar are either current or ex smokers. The few who have never smoked wouldn't touch a Puro at the point of a gun.
As it's the Holidays, I'm going to have my third of the day, a Party D4!
Self restraint is over-rated!

[mackem keith]

interesting post this guys ive done my newbie meet and greet so forgive me if im jumping in at the deep end.
in all honestly ive never smoked cigarettes but have however smoked habanos for prob 10 years, just as a general consensus because up in my neck of the woods friends and family seem to see me a a bit of a minority being a cigar fanatic and always say the same thing to me when they discover my cigar passion which is 'how did you come to smoke cigars and never cigarettes' my response is usually along the lines of cigars and cigarettes are just a totally different ball game smoking cigars just cannot be compared to smoking cigarettes, which generally provokes uproar in myself being labelled hypocritical for slating cigarette smokers. i suppose my conclusion being is am i wrong to slate cigarette smokers when i myself am a smoker albeit cuban cigars....

[Simon-JG-hr]

I reckon it must have been hard for you guys who never smoked cigs to get used to the smell of the Big Stick, no?

Not really. Or at least not in my case. I have never liked the smell of cigarettes, however, have always loved the aroma of a cigar. My first cigar 'experiece' was at a rugby match; a couple of old Welsh guys behind us had them on the go for the whole three hours we were stood in the Shed at Kingsholm. I must have been about nine years old and, despite choking for about the next fortnight, I thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful smell (what a change from the bland, stale smell of a cigarette).

[Andy]

Never smoked cigarettes although my wife does. I don't like the smell or the addictive habit. Cigars are very different they smell and taste wonderful and you choose when you want to enjoy one. Only started cigar smoking last summer whilst on holiday and am loving the smoking, the collecting/hoarding nature of building a collection and learning all aspects of cigars do's and don't from you guys. Thanks Andy

[Big J]

Never smoked cigarettes...

Just 100% fine puros...

Cheers, HabanoSy

Ditto that HabanoSy!

[tippexx]

I havn't smoked a cigarette to some twenty odd years. But was pretty bad before that. Smoked Hamlets and such (with the odd Habanos from time to time) till about half-way through last year. Still smoke Cohiba mini's, but more as a time and cold thing rather than for any preference reasons.

[pch050]

smoked cigs for 10 yrs but quit cigs due when I found cigars!!! Now back to 1 or 2 cigs a day as the winter is really cold in Europe!

[pdgray.uk]

Just cigars for me too. Luckily cubans. Enjoying them greatly for 2 years now.

[daverave999]

I started smoking cigarettes when I was about 13 and smoked about 20 a day. I slowed down slightly after going on the rollies and then a month or two into discovering cigars (about a year ago) I just stopped bothering to smoke fags completely. Very occasionally I'll have one, and I went straight back to 20 a day when I went on holiday for a week, but then stopped again when I came back. I do find the smoke of ready-made cigarettes unpleasant now.

[MaledettoToscano]

I started with cigarillos (the Che ones, to impress the loose leftie female-students in college ), he occasional wacky baccy thrown in for good mesure and started smokeing a few cigarettes during my PhD times, but never got the bug (3-4 per day most).

After that I tried cigars and the pipe. I liked both, but the pipe is a bit too fussy for me, so stuck with cigars from 7 years back though I have to admit I only smoked 1-2 a month... untill I found this forum. Now I smoke at least 3-4 a week and my credi card needs to be shredded.... may you be damned!!

[LukeBird]

Yep, a cigar smoker through and through here.
No cigarettes for me!