Okay, time to think back to that very first cigar you smoked. Was it memorable? Is it why you smoke cigars today? How does it differ from the very first stick? :-) :-)
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Backwoods. They were freaking awesome... much better than the PAM i smoked last night!!
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Kahlua Torpedo. That is what got me started. I very seldom smoke infused cigars anymore, but I will always remember the Kahlua cigars.
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Habanos Torres 8 Year double corona. I had smoked maybe one Black and Mild and hookah. I really enjoyed the hookah. I figured I'd give a cigar a try. While I was doing laundry my roommate fetched some booze and we found what I now know to be the best cigars I've ever smoked.
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If I remember right I think it was a AF 858 Maduro and I still enjoy them today:-)
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:-)La Gloria Cubana wavell. I still enjoy 'em every once in a while
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Thompson!!! I've moved up!!!

Never again with the Thompsons!!!!:-)
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My first cigar? No idea what it was, I just know that my friend stole it out of his dad's humi. We bit the end...like and inch up and puff, puff, passed that sucker with me and 3 other kids.
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I was 17 years old... my friend was working at a convenience store. He had cigars at the counter... I think they were 15 cents a piece.

We both bought a King Edward and fired it up. As I recall, it wasn't too terrible. :-)

The first long-filler all tobacco cigar was a Baccarat... around 1994. The one that made the difference was a Honduran puro my wife brought back for me in August 2006. Been all over for me sine then. :-)
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A kaluha at the Chumash Casino, just over a year ago now
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Ashton Cabinet, it was a great experience!
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a macanudo robust over 9 years ago.
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5 Vegas Gold was the first and I still smoke them. :-)
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A Punch Rothschild, half way through I turned green and was on my hand and knees dry heaving in the grass. Ah the memories
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I was 12 when I lit my first cigar, a Dutch dry cigar, used it to light fireworks.

The first cigar of my 'cigar career' was a Cohiba siglo II or an MC#3 on a vacation to Indonesia. Sitting on the porch, watching a tropical rain pour down while sipping on a nice glass of Glenfiddich 15yo Solana reserve.
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My first good cigar was an Onyx Reserve Robusto and I still occasionally partake in one.

The first mini mart cigar that I had was a Backwoods and at the time it was pretty good.
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AF Short Story. Still one of my favorite smoke to this day.:-)
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Black and Mild:-)
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I've smoked cigars for a couple of years off and on before I really smoked my first.

10 November 2003 - Marine Corps Birthday:
A wise old 1st Sgt. took a young Lance Corporal under his wing and gave me a an old Montecristo. For that hour or so while I smoked with him, he told me about the Corps back in the day when he was a Lance Corporal. Since then I've been hooked and to this day I still have the band from that cigar. :-)
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My first cigar two and a half years ago at senior beach week. I smoked in succession of nights a Grape White Owl, a Cherry White Owl, and then a Zino Platinum. ALl of them had been given to my by friends. I smoked half of the Zino and decided that I'd smoke the other half at home. Two weeks later, with the halfway torched Zino still sitting in my car in a ziploc bag, I took it out and tried to smoke it. Naturally, it was awful. Tasted like feet and ash.

However, my high-school girlfriend's dad is a distributor for Altadis. Needless to say when he found out I had smoked cigars he hooked me up with a humidor full of Montes, Romeos, Trinidads, etc. It was awesome. A Trinidad Maduro is what hooked me. It was so creamy and delicious... I want to smoke another one.

You have a special smoke stashed away for this Monday? I think I'll be having an Oliva Serie V Maduro among other things at our Cake Cutting Ceremony. Should be a good time. I'm looking forward to getting some of the younger guys to smoke their first.
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