Your First Stick

[SideWinder]

My first stick.... I still have the cigar band. I was 17 years old and my buddy and I were out cruising for girls in his Camaro Rally Sport. This was in the mid 80's, so the car was still cool then. We stopped at Union Station in downtown Indy and we each bought a cigar to smoke while we drove. I don't remember what he had but I had a (dare I say it) Macanudo. I don't remember anything about the cigar, though I did smoke the whole stick. I got better.

[8-5-8]

Hi guys... been a while.

I had lived around the corner from a cigar shop for a few years when I stopped in one day just to have a look around. The place smelled wonderful! I just had to take something home. While browsing the selection, I happened upon the AF 8-5-8 natural. The phone prefix in the little town I grew up in was 858, so it was sort of a novelty choice. Long story short, I smoked it and loved it. That was over five years ago and the 8-5-8 has become a regular choice when restocking my humidor.

[Lopaka]

Sept '97 - I was living in Hawai'I and a bud flew out to visit me. We went downtown Honolulu and proceeded to get plastered. While in a bar he handed me a cigar and I started puffing. I don't know what it was, all I remember was praying to the porcelain gods saying I'm never going to smoke a cigar again because it's very nasty when you're drunk.

Fast forward...

Dec '99 New Years Eve - I was living in Okinawa and decided that I wanted to do something unique for New Years Eve. While I was downtown I found a little place that sold Cigars and picked up a Romeo Y Julieta No. 2 (ISOM). At the stroke of midnight I lite that bad boy and enjoyed every second for over an hour while drinking champagne. Still to this day, I believe it was the best cigar I have ever smoked. I've been smoking cigars ever since.

Lopaka

[jsc4324]

My first was a little over a year ago in Key West. Was full of booze and stumbled upon this guy who claimed to be from Cuba and he made the cigar right in front of me. The next day I went back and bought another 10 for the remainder of the trip. Ever since I have been hooked.

[Sporadic Metonomy]

I'd never smoked anything but the occasional joint until about a year ago. My friend invited me over to sample a few cigars his uncle had mailed to him. They turned out to be Tatiana Rum-Flavored Coronas? Anyway, it was delightful and I immediately went to the Tobbaconist to buy "something good." Since I'd never had a "real" cigar before, the guy working bought me a Hemingway Signature. We both smoked one together and it was SOOO tasty. Haven't looked back since.


Sean

[WOXOF]

I popped my cherry on a Macanudo Hampton Court.

[cinda]

I never smoked one but the first cigar gifted to me was an Fuente OpusX and desert rat sent it to me the first year I was here.