I'm a newb myself, but I would have probably approached him quietly and asked if he smoked cigars much. And maybe offer some friendly advice about the band. As for me, I have a friend that went with me last week to the smoke shop. He had never smoked a cigar, lol, and this part if messed up. He buys this huge long stick, maybe 8"x50, can't remember what it was but it was only like $3.50. We got back to the house and before i said anything he had cut it into 3 sections thinking he would make 3 cigars out of one because he was supprised when I told him that thing would probably require at least an hour and a half to smoke. So his cut it into 3 peices and obviously it started coming apart. I couldn't help but laugh, but I explained and let him have one of my singles and commited his poor butchered stick to the back yard.