I light my sticks with a bic almost all the time for the same reasons Tyler does.....besides, I can buy a shitload of them for the cost of one Colibri........I have been known to bite the caps off my cigars if I don't have my cutter......a freebie cutter that I got from Mr. Bundles. I have lit the wrong end of a perfecto more than once........

I would never dream of commenting on what someone uses to light or cut their cigar, how they smoke it, etc.......but, I would have tried to find some way to politely and very low key like tell the guy and get him to pull off the foot band. I think most people would take this kindly, but some may not.........it would either most likely lead to a longer conversation about cigars and possibly a new smoking buddy, or a very short conversation if the guy was an ass about it.

Quote Originally Posted by jfellows
I would definitely say something. Odds are he'd be embarrassed but appreciative. If he gave me a hard time for being a younger and perhaps less-experienced smoker (although how much experience can you have if you do something like that), I would kindly suggest that he spend his money on diapers and Ensure, instead of a cigar-band-burning effort in senility.
LMFAO.....I'm not that quick, but if he was an ass it would probably go something like that, though most of my response would only contain 4 letters or less.