Great advice here for sure. As my buddy geek says.. "how am I going to know what I like, unless I find out what I do not like". Smoking shitty cigars is just a part of the game. Personally, I think its interesting to pick up some of the cheapest, nastiest cigars (cigarbid is great for this) to see how bad they really are. I have been surprised with several sticks that I can get for under a buck. Not Davidoff by any stretch of the imagination, but great smokes for when you just want something to smoke (grilling in the back yard or drinking large quantities of beer). Of course... some are really as bad as you might imagine and worse =)