The cigar smoker stereotype

[razrbakcrzy]

I have smoked cigars in public places that allow smoking around my city and never felt bad because of it. I have had some looks and even one cigarette smoker tell me that my cigar stank. I told her to ask my children sitting at the table right next to her what they would rather smell 1 cigar smoker or 40 cigarette smokers..... She shut her mouth real fast. All i can say is "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones." If are going to be rude to me get ready to get it right back.

[cigar no baka]

Until I started posting here and the other board I frequent, I always thought the majority of cigars smokers were older men that had money. I quickly found out that most here are around my age (29) and just your average guy or gal not unlike me. Most people have hobbies that they sink thier extra money into, it seems that cigars are just one of those hobbies rather than something you have to be rich to enjoy.

Agreed, I am 38m not rich but comfortably middle class (and trying to BE rich some day, go stock market!!). This is the only real hobby (or vice) that I sink any money into.

[CoventryCat86]

I have smoked cigars in public places that allow smoking around my city and never felt bad because of it. I have had some looks and even one cigarette smoker tell me that my cigar stank. I told her to ask my children sitting at the table right next to her what they would rather smell 1 cigar smoker or 40 cigarette smokers..... She shut her mouth real fast. All i can say is "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones." If are going to be rude to me get ready to get it right back.

What's that got to do with a stereotype?

Around here in the northeast United States, cigar smokers are all ages, all races and more women than you might think. It might be different in other parts of the country but unlike the situation you described in the UK, it's not the same here. No one looks at someone funny if they are smoking a cigar and don't fit the stereotype.