Newbie: Cigar vs cigarettes

[mrtr33]

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....

[golfermd]

Welcome to Cigar Smokers. By all means look through the site. Concetrate especially on the Reviews threads as the entries there will give you some ideas on the different flavor prfiles, bodies and members likes and dislikes of the cigar they are reviewing.

[Stinkdyr]

Welcome to the world of cigars! Quite a step up from cigarettes, IMO. Strange as it may sound, I HATE the smell of cigarettes, and LOVE the smell of cigars. Maybe I am a hypocrite, or maybe cigar tobacco is just light-years better than stinkettes. Dunno.