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.

[prophetic_joe]

The first cigar I that smoked was a Montesino Robusto to celebrate the birth of my cousin.

[badwhale]

First tobacco product / cigar was a half smoked El Producto given to me by an older scout in my troop when I was probably 12 years old

First "luxury" cigar was a Casa Blanca that was a leftover from our wedding

Will

[ppovar]

Romeo y Julieta N1
Introduced by an ex-friend while doing a business meeting. I regularly come to it as a morning cigar.

[CoventryCat86]

A Muniemaker I stole from my father when I was a kid.

Whatever happened to "Loudpipes" (the guy that started this thread)? or that asshat dHUTCH?

[craig]

A Muniemaker I stole from my father when I was a kid.

Whatever happened to "Loudpipes" (the guy that started this thread)? or that asshat dHUTCH?

Dunno about Loudpipes, but dHutch's vehicle was hit by an RPG last spring in, IIRC, Afghanistan. Last I remember reading, the damage in his legs was permanent, and he was up for a Bronze Star. I can't access the original thread as it has been puff'd, but it looks like some of the content was cross-posted to CP:
http://www.cigarpass.com/forums/inde...howtopic=45624

Oh yeah, my first was a Bances. All Cuban short-filler tobacco, machine-made in Canada.

[here'sjohnny]

My first was a Montesino Maduro, churchill i think, in my buddies basement while playing risk. We forgot to open a window, and slept down there. The next morning we did not feel particularly great.

[Corvin]

My first real cigar I think was a Romeo Number 1 Tubo. That was about 3 or 4 years ago now.

[MasterCylinder]

My first was technically a swisher when I was 15... My first real cigar was a Romeo no. 2

[guado]

loudpipes is still around...talking to him on google chat right now....I'll link him the thread.

[Loudpipes78]

Who me? I'm still around.

I've pretty much stopped frequenting most forums 12-18 months ago and randomly pop in here and there to see what's going on.

I still smoke once a week or so and currently have an RP Winter sitting next to me begging to be lit. Buffalo Wild Wings also opened a location near my new place which makes it 50% closer than the existing one I go to and it has at least a 2000 sq/ft patio which is smoker friendly. I am going to be hanging out there quite often.

I still pick up most of my stuff from Tampa Humidor and whatever Guado suggests or comes across since he is a waaaay bigger smoker than I am now. I still have a decent collection but now I have a lot of stuff with some age on it since I slowed down smoking the last year.

As some of you might remember I got divorced back in Dec '06 and got engaged back in July of this year to an amazing woman. We're living together now and have a great life. The wedding is planned for Fall/Winter this year but since we've both been divorced before we don't care about making it a giant affair. Our goal is to buy a house first and if our offer gets accepted on this one short sale we'll definitely be doing a backyard wedding... on a lake.

I guess that's about it... still L-I-V-I-N` and lovin' life.

[597]

Congratulations Loudpipes!

Nice to see you post again. I'm just as shocked as Guado.

[golfermd]

Partagas #10. Stopped smoking for several years. Divorce, life in general. But am going to start again...

[alliaphagist]

I'm very new to cigars. My first "cigar" was a Black n Mild "wine" flavored. It was...weird. There didn't seem to be any flavor but the really artificial "wine" smell was sickening. This was about a month ago.

After a couple more gas-station cigars, I decided to buy the mild-medium taster pack at CI. My first real cigar was a Rocky Patel Connecticut. Unfortunately, I was still trying to figure out exactly how to smoke a cigar, and I didn't get much of anything out of it. This was only about a week ago, and I was sitting outside on a bench, when two friends came over. We were talking for a while, and I realized my cigar had gone out. Once they left, it got really cold, so I decided to abandon my smoking for the night, and try to relight another time, because I had only smoked an inch. Unfortunately, the next day the whole stick smelled like stale smoke, so I just decided to toss it.

So great first experiences haha! I have had better experiences since then though.

Oh, and this is my first post