Who first introduced you to premium cigars?

my pastor, and he also introduced me to very good scotch...gotta love those Reformed pastors!
 
A good friend of mine by the name of Matt Fair pushed me into premium cigars about 2 years ago and within a month I totally feel off the slope. Have no regrets and have no thoughts of ever giving up my favorite hobby.
 
I was given a couple of vintage 1963 Dunhill Don Candido 501's as a gift even thouh I don't smoke cigarettes and never smoked cigars at the time. I Googled the name and it turned out there wasn't many links to them as they were so rare (if I type the name in now most of the links are me searching for info about them!). This basically led me to look into cigars as a whole and I got sucked into the romance and passion for them and went down to my local store and bought some CC's to try (in UK that's mainly what you get) and that was me hooked.

I've got to say I seem to have started at the wrong end..being given very expensive rare premium cigars, then going to buy "new" CC's and now I'm really looking forward to trying some NC's that I'm being sent. I decided right at the start not to get too entrenched in the brand name and instead to go with taste, draw etc and that's what I'm doing, working my way through the lot!
 
This is something I discovered on my own. I never smoked a cigarette a day in my life and all of sudden I develop this interest for cigars.

In march of this year my family & I were spending the day at Downtown Disney in Anaheim where I came across a kiosk that was selling cigars. I asked the lady there for something mild. The lady recommended a vanilla flavored cigar which I bought for like $13 bucks. I dont remember what brand it was.

I smoked the cigar in a span of 2-3 days. I would light it up, take a couple of puffs then I would put it out by running it against my brick wall. I put it in the plastic tube it came in and put it in my fridge just as the lady recommended. After the 2nd or 3rd day the cigar tasted disgusting.

I wasnt discouraged by this horrible experience. I bought "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cigars, 2nd Edition" and started to educate myself on the do's/donts. I also did a lot of research on various online sites (thats how I came across this informative site).

I bought my first "real" cigar in vegas in April of this year. It was a Quintero box pressed Robusto. It was to strong for me. I'm sticking with much milder sticks these days.

Thats my story, I hope I didnt bore anybody,anyway thanks for taking the time to read it :ss
 
My Granddad had a whole bunch of arturo feunte Fancy Tales that he let me smoke....haha

No...I actually started smoking when I lived in the Virgin Islands. I didn't like cigs, and I needed something to go with that drink on the beach. I think my first one was a chitty Don Thomas that I smoked backwards because I didn't have a cutter. Kinda just blossomed into a beautifull habit...
 
My dad. He gave me an 858 when I was about 18 or 19 and that was my first cigar. I never had to do the Swisher/White Owl thing.
 
A friend and I liked to think we were 'high-rollers' during high school and so of course we had to smoke cigars, it's been all downhill since then.:ss
 
not sure what constitutes premium but shortly after starting working where I work now my boss gave me about 20 cigars to try all hand rolled long filler and damn tasty :) shortly after that I joined here :tu
 
shemp said:
my pastor, and he also introduced me to very good scotch...gotta love those Reformed pastors!
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Amen to that brother!:ss

For me, it was my wife. She was at the convention center in downtown NO when the Cigar Factory of New Orleans was giving away free samples. She grabbed a couple for me and I was hooked from then on out.
 
CLUB STOGIE!!


I remember going to a local Faders B&M and buying the biggest George Peppard stogie i could find at a young age....Always loved and hung out in there with the old timers...Enjoying the smells and begging empty boxes which they gave me without hesitation (My how times haved changed)

When I needed to start buying cigars for my job I did a lot of research and (thank God) fell upon Club Stogie....Its been all downhill since then :D

THANKS :) :)
 
For me it just seemed like a natural progression. I went into the local B&M and told the guy I had been smoking 'gas station' cigars. He took pity on me and gifted me an Macanudo. Been on the downward slope ever since.

Oh, and I've moved on to much stronger cigars since then.
 
High school ... grade 10, 1975 .. I bought a box of White Owl Invincibles one night I was out drinking on the back of a friend's one ton truck and partying out a lonely gravel road. I smoked and enjoyed White owls more than a few times back then. Fast forward 2 years .. I am in Halifax and see MacDonald's tobacco shop near the waterfront and mosey in. The owner, Mr. MacDonald, asked me what I was looking for and I told him a nice cigar. He set me up with a Cuban cigar, I'm ashamed to admit I don't remember which one. I also bought some Balkan Sobranie cigarettes, which I smoked for several years, couldn't afford to smoke many cigars in high school.
 
BigVito said:
not sure what constitutes premium but shortly after starting working where I work now my boss gave me about 20 cigars to try all hand rolled long filler and damn tasty :) shortly after that I joined here :tu
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Exactly... talking hand rolled long filler. :tu
 
I have never smoked cigarettes, but for some reason I have always been intrigued by cigars. Had an uncle way back when who was always smoking a stogie and to me he seemed the happiest person on earth..back then.

Early last year I found myself concerned about a few health items, nothing serious but still it made me realize at 56..back then, I wasn't a young puppy anymore and I was going to start looking for things I may have missed out on.

Now comes the part I may get some heat on....

I am and have always been a Rush Limbaugh fan. I may have just lost 50% friends by saying that but, I like his style and it seems I never saw him away from the radio where he wasn't smoking a cigar.

On his website he goes into a little of his favorites, or maybe some of his recommendations. So last year I decided to try a few and now I cant stand up straight cause of a slippery slope thing I find myself on.

A friend of mine I did some work for sent me a few after seeing me smoking one, and all of a sudden I was hooked.
 
I kind of just fell into another expensive habit by chance. I work at a spirits shop and got to talking with one of my customers one day. Now, keep in mind ive been intrigued about cigars for a while. So, in walks a customer of mine and he wanted some advice on tequila. We get to talking about tequila and he tells me he is really into cigars. I am thinking to myself this is perfect. So david tells me he'll see me soon. The next time I see him he bombs me with seven nice cigars, all of which i really enjoyed. One of the nicest knowledgeable people i have ever talked to! So thanks Dgar for pushing me down this slipppery slope!:tu
 
Me and a friend of mine were hanging out one night. I had turned 18 recently, and we remembered smoking cigars on fishing trips with our dads since we were 14 (they'd buy us each one actual cigar for the last night of the trip [I suspect with the purpose of making us sick]). We thought I'd buy us some cigars and we'd smoke them and it'd be a good time. I was looking for Backwoods because my dad used to smoke them a lot and I remembered liking them and the smell. I came out of 7-11 with a pack of Grape Phillies instead. But we smoked them and spat a lot and it was indeed a good time. But I told him "Next time I'm getting us some good ones, like Tony [the main man of the fishing trips] used to get us." And then I hit the internet to see what's good, found this place, placed an order with Famous and so it began...now he works at the B&M and I'd might as well...
 
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