Cigar smokers roll call

[WARPIG]

Any cigar junkies in here? I started a habit a few years ago and stopped when I got married again. I recently picked up some decent stogies to announce my new babies birth. I was going to just buy some of those rolled turds with the pink label on them, but decided to go for one of my old favorites and just have the wife tie a pink ribbon on them. It worked out great! My fellow NCO's and the Officers in my unit really enjoyed the cigar I picked out. Now I think I am going to keep a fistfull of cigars around the office for when I feel like "burning one" or when the brass decides to pay me a visit.
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Montesino Robusto, natural rapper, 5 L 50 ring gauge
Share your faves, cigar links, and cigar stories.

[panzerjager]

Macanudos and Monte Cristos for me but only on the golf course! I will definitely try some real Cubans when I go to Canada though.

[Clete Torres]

Stogies are for fogies. I just quit smoking cigarettes last month after almost 20 years of doing it and if I smell a cigar I think it will make me yak. Do yourself a favor throw those things out. Those things are horrible.

[panzerjager]

Stogies are for fogies. I just quit smoking cigarettes last month after almost 20 years of doing it and if I smell a cigar I think it will make me yak. Do yourself a favor throw those things out. Those things are horrible.


Quitter! :(

[Ratamacue]

Can't say I'm a connoisseur in any way, but I do enjoy the occasional cigar. Pipes are where it's at though.

[Clete Torres]

I'm sorry sir but you have been misinformed. Pipes are not where it's at. Specially corn cobb pipes. You start puffing on one of those and you aint ever getting laid again.

[Ratamacue]

I'm sorry sir but you have been misinformed.
"Misinformed" would suggest that I'm speaking based on someone else's experience.

[memphiz]

I have cigars every now and then, usually just Captain Blacks.

But I have had a Cuban cigar before, was very good

[madjack]

Up the interstate from Ft Bragg. He has some great Nicarauguan and Dominican "alternatives" to those over-priced communist stogies and sells them for around $25 for a bundle of 20.
But don't get me wrong, a macanudo is one nice smoke.

[Corinthian]

Dont mind the occassional Stogie

[askDNA]

I tried a macanudo once...hated it.

[Stormy]

I got some Cohiba, Monte Cristo, H. Upmann, Bolivar cigars. Too bad I don't smoke. ;)

[Beppo]

A few years ago I went to Central America and became a cigar nut. My "addiction" only lasted a few months but for years afterward whenever I went overseas I would buy Cubans left and right. I soon realized though that the main appeal of Cuban cigars (to me at least) was simply that they were illegal to buy in the States, but everywhere else they're pretty commonplace, especially in airports. I soon discovered, however, that it's a simple enough matter to order Cuban cigars from an online European-based cigar seller and have them delivered to your door in the US. Once it became too easy to get Cubans I guess I got bored with them.
I haven't had one in quite a while but my last cigar was what is supposedly the best cigar you can legally buy in the US: The Dominican-made Fuente Fuente Opus X. It was okay.

PS: On a related note, coming back from Amsterdam earlier this year, the non-existent customs search made me regret not coming back with "souvenirs".

[WARPIG]

JR CIGARS has some damn good competative prices for cigars. I bought those Montesinos from JR.

I just got their catalog in the mail this morning. That is what brought up the topic for me.

The thing with cigars is that the best cigar for one guy could be nothing more than a rolled turd for the next.

I used to carry a grenade canister full of cheap short cigarellos in my ruck when I was at FT. Hood. When we had down time, I would share a smoke with my squad. I also kept a few cigars that I wanted to try after ENDEX. So, during the AARs between excercises, we were puffing cheap cigars while whoofing our MREs, and then checking out my latest sampler pack with the big ENDEX meal around the MKT.

[askDNA]

are there any good cigarillos you can get convenient stores? I know definitely not Swisher Sweet cigars rofl

[mattnwnc03]

where ya at bill?

[el borracho]

If you guys like maduros, try an Onyx Reserve. Also, pretty much any CAO cigar is decent. Another good one is Rocky Patel's signature line, but stay away from his "Indian Tabac" line. Those are almost unsmokeable. All the cigars I mentioned are about $7 or less, so it won't kill the wallet to give one a try.

[WARPIG]

where ya at bill?
I think he quit. His Presidential Humidor got him into some trouble. The Monicanudo brand cigars seemed to have a foul aroma as well.

[stateofequilibrium]

Dont mind the occassional Stogie

A nice Cuban Cohiba is always welcomed. Especially Cohiba Siglo VI's. I didn't find out what was so special about the special editions, except the price.