Welcome from northern Louisiana.

If you're smoking cigars as a "healthy" option to smoking cigarettes, I'm afraid you aren't going to find that to be the case. I used to smoke cigarettes as well - for 17 years, before I quit on my 30th birthday. Once I picked up smoking cigars, it was a whole different story - I could taste differences in tobaccos, sizes, and wrappers. Almost everyone on this board has a better tasting palate than I do, but I can definitely say that cigars have a better flavor about them than cigarettes do.

Basically, it boils down to this: I smoke because I like to. I smoke to relax. I don't think about how a cigar or two a week will affect my health. Takes the enjoyment out of it. Search around, others may have better insight....