Category: insights
In the previous post, I posed some question that will help you analyze your knowledge of cigar etiquette. Here are a few more that, hopefully, will help you realize whether or not you are one of those stogie lovers that irritate the crap out of every other person in the cigar lounge.
When your mobile phone rings, where do you take the call?
A better question might be, do you take the call at all? Sometimes, the cigar lounge is just like the movie theater. People hate interruptions such ...
Courtesy is something that some people just don’t get. Some simply do not care, while some are just not aware. If you are going to a cigar lounge to enjoy a smoke, you should know the basic etiquette that is expected of you. How well do you know your cigar lounge etiquette? Ask yourself these questions and find out!
If a conversation is going on when you enter the lounge, what do you do?
Some people would probably sit down and observe for a while, maybe join in when they feel like it. Others might immediately ...
Cigars, just like wine will taste better if they are lit after some time. This is not to say that a cigar is not worth it if it is immediately lit by anyone who may have one. It is merely stating a fact that a cigar will improve in its taste and quality after some years of proper storage since this is how the tobacco leave contents prosper with regards to quality tasting cigars.
To some people, it would be best to check out the labels that they come with. The years specified in each ...
Cigar smoking is a very old world pursuit. Whenever I light up my favorite cigar I am always reminded of my father puffing away on one at the end of a long and tiring day at work. With cigar on one hand and a glass of his favorite whiskey on the other, that image has been indelibly printed in my mind along with images of my dad and his brothers having a fun time while partaking of my father’s cigar stash.
I am now an adult and have acquired (some say inherited) my father’s passion ...
When you buy cigars, how many do you buy at a time? I personally buy at least a bundle at a time only because I do not like having to keep going back to the shop when I need or want a cigar. I have to admit that sometimes, though, I buy only one. This is especially true when I am out of the house and I forget to bring a cigar with me. This can also happen when I am short of cash and ...
We took a look at some of the best drinks that you can have while smoking that wonderful cigar of yours. Let us take a look at some more drinks which you can have with your cigar.
Scotch
I heard this from an old cigar enthusiast – scotch is the best drink EVER that you can have while smoking a cigar. It could be true but the problem is that I am not a scotch drinker. If you like scotch, however, then I suppose that you know exactly ...
When someone mentions cigars, what is the first picture that comes to mind? Think gender-wise – do you see men smoking them or do you immediately see women smoking them? Now don’t get me wrong – I am not being sexist or anything here. I was just reading a blog post by Gary Korb over at Cigar Advisor – it was about cigars being a “guy thing.” As I was reading it, I was going, “yeah…” in a musing manner.
Indeed, why is it that cigars ...
For most people, hearing the word manufacture is usually synonymous towards machinery doing all the work with the supervision of humans to create quality made cigars that smokers all over the world are demanding. Cigar preparation is an art, something that needs training for cigars to retain their quality once bought. Millions of cigars are manufactured each year, the life span of which does not really impact them since the longer they are stored, the better to smoke them with.
A lot of this lies in the type of tobacco leaves in use. ...
To this day, no one has really come up with a good explanation why it is hard to kick the habit of smoking once a person would start taking it up. All a person gets is smoke in his mouth and perhaps until his lungs, so what is the pleasure out of it? Breathing like a dragon perhaps? But still, where is the part where a person is satisfied, especially when a cigar is paired with coffee.
Many people would not understand why such traditional practices have become what it is today. For ...
People today have different ways of expressing success and triumphs in any undertaking that they may find themselves in. Especially in task or work related activities, cigars are a common site to behold. Lighting a cigar at these times is a symbol of achievement and also relief for efforts invested in the course of investing much time and energy to achieve certain goals.
Cigars are rare today, and unless people are the standard cigar addicts, only a few can see people regularly smoking cigars in public. Cigars have ...
