Quote Originally Posted by prophetic_joe View Post
My problem with them isn't so much that they taste like garbage, but with the overall lack of experience involved. Every time you smoke a premium, even if it's a label you've smoked before, it brings something new with it. Every time you pick up some other subtle nuance that just adds to the smoke. When you smoke a gas station cigar you just don't get anything really, it's just smoke and nothing more. A good cigar is just so much more than that.
The main reason I smoke cheapies like Backwoods or the occasional Swisher even though it makes me cringe is that I have a lot of cigarette smoking friends.

I'm not interested in cigarettes, but I do like to go outside and hang out for a few minutes, during break at work, while pausing a movie I'm watching with the family, whatever. They pull out a pack of marlboro's, and I'm not willing to light up a churchill just to smoke it for 5-10 minutes while they smoke a cigarette.

Backwoods taste ok, they're not great. But I get to go outside and socialize and enjoy the smoke break with the guys, and I didn't have to smoke a cigarette or waste a good stick.