Only started earlier this year! still class myself as an occasional smoker, stogies in a tupperware box all basic stuff but im happy!:-)
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A little over a year now, and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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On and off since around 1988-89. Pretty regularly for a few years in the 90's. Now seriously again since May 08.
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Realistically, a couple of years.
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Got serious in 1997, I smoke about 2 to 3 times a week.
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Smoked my first cigar in July of this year. Took me 40+ years to get around to it, I guess. Dammit -- all those wasted years of opportunity.
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15+ for me... :-)
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I tryed my first cigars in middle school. They consisted of Dutch Masters and Swisher Sweets. This trend continued in h.s. When I turned 18 I started visiting a local B&M and really enjoyed premium cigars but finacially couldn't really begin storing and buying. When I was 22 (2002) I smoked a CAO L'anniversaire maduro and fell in love. I started smoking more frequently after that. My father-in-law (not then but is now) gave me me a humidor loaded with cigars for the following Christmas. From then on I've been smoking fairly regularly. My collection has grown in the past few months. I used to only keep between 10-40 cigars in my humidor. I recently went a bit crazy and filled up a small coolidor along with my humidor. I'm officially free falling down the slope:-)
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Hmmm - started smoking cigarettes back around 1968 and quit around 1994. Cigar smoking started around 1972 and still going strong - :-)


Ron
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Whoo! Man it has been about 10 years now. I started a year before graduating high school in '98.
I have been enjoying it ever since! Best way to spend some free time relaxing!
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I smoked a cigar here and there in the late 90's and early 2000's but didn't start smoking seriously until mid to late 2005.
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I have been smoking cigars religiously since Novemeber 2005. In the 90's I would smoke a cigar with my grandfather every now and then. My grandfather smoked cigars for almost 70 years. Obviously I have been around cigars my entire life.
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My cigar story is broken into section. In 1992, I did an exchange program in Italy. My house father smoked Cuban cigars. His wife said he could only smoke on special occasions. I was the special occasion at least once a week. After I came home, I started smoking swisher sweets...from great to not so great. I only smoked at poker games and once every 2 months.


I then moved to California in 1995 where I got a job working in a cigar shop. I smoked regularly and sold cigars for about 5 years.

I continued to smoke until I started smoking Cuban cigars again, more consistently this time, last January.


SO, to make my long story short, I have been smoking since my sophomore year in college, 1992.
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Nice..the year I was born.
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A little over a year now. Started cigar smoking on my 18th birthday, and have become a rather serious cigar smoker. Never got into the cheap stuff either...unlike most people my age who smoke Swishers and things like that. I have noticed an increase of people my age starting to enjoy quality cigars though.
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I started in February of this year. I'm pretty new at this whole game. I think the BOTLs/SOTLs here have helped shorten the learning curve though. They turned it more into a learning cliff. Throw you off and see if you can fly....most of us can't fly.
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Right around a year now.
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About 3 years ago but I only started tumbling down the slope in the last year. It may have had something to do with the discovery of a certain auction site:-)
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Just about to celebrate 2 years!!! :-) Looking forward to 100 times that :-)
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About 5 years. I hadn't been such a heavy smoker until about 2005-2006 when I started buying boxes and smoking almost daily.
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