Like ashauler I too was a cig smoker for 30+ years then gave them and up then found cigars. Haven't made it to the pipe yet, have to let the wife get used to my latest addiction first........LOL

A few months after finally getting off the cigs (with the help of the 'Champix' drug) my wife's boss came back from a trip to Cuba with a sampler pack of cigars and dropped a Partagas and a Cohiba on me.

I remember distinctly how much I liked the smell of the cigars. I almost sniffed the wrapper off the Partagas and still love to smell a good cigar. It was the smell that got me to light up the first one. It was the taste that got me to finish it and the second one!

No, I don't inhale cigar smoke, and after 2 years without a cig, I had a drag off one last November while out hunting and was amazed at how closely the flavor of cigarettes resembles what I can only assume sundried dogsh*t must taste like. I had to immediately light a Padron 5000 Robusto to remove that noxious (for lack of a better term) flavor from my mouth.