OK, so Just to please Amy, because she is keeping me on her blog friend list even though I haven't written in this thing for, well for a very long time.
So I have a new vice, since I gave up alcohol and anything else . . . I needed a hobby, well, I guess, I just like it, or something, but yeah, my, my.
So to ramble on a bit more,
I've smoked cigars on and off since I was 16, but I guess I never really knew anything about it.
There is an entire culture and world of cigar smokers, with their own language and everything.
You thought people and fine wines were knowledgable about their passion, well, at least I did. Let me tell you something, cigars smokers, know there stuff, they know it inside and out, they can tell you where a cigar comes from just by looking at it, well sort of, but yeah.
I'm starting to learn, I'm on to 3 Humidors, and one I'm holding for a friend, so I can hold something like 100 cigars, the scary part is, that's not really enough!
Cigars can be pricey, but if you know where to look, they are actually very reasonable.
Now here's my thing, I buy cigars online for my humidors at home, which saves me about 70% off every cigar, if not more, and then I go to my favorite cigar shop, buy one from their walk-in humidor, and spend all day sitting there, watching movies, talking, etc. It's incredible!
I guess that's what I really love about cigars, no matter what, you have to sit down and enjoy a cigar. You can't run around all active and stuff while smoking a cigar like you can with cigarettes. When you light a cigar, you had better be prepared to relax for about and hour, maybe even more! There is nothing you can do, except sit down, in a nice comfy leater chair, kick back with a cold beverage, a good book, great movie, some incredible friends, and just enjoy.
Don't stop and smell the roses, stop and smoke a cigar, smelling roses is over too quick, a cigar takes time, and ages better than any wine, given the right conditions.
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Wow I have never read so much about cigars before... I am guessing this is the kind of thing those cigar forums are about? Now I know! The funny thing is, while I was reading this I actually started smelling cigars and I don't know why. I guess it must be good writing then...
Hmm, Cigars... What the... more nicotin and tar then in cigarets. Ok, you just have to take some time to smoke it and you can relax while doing it (I mean the smoking part^^) but I do the same when I'm smoking a pipe with a good tabaco. Yummi.
Gotta go and find my pipe!
Oh, yes the whole more tar and nicotine worry, sure it does have more, but less additives than cigarettes, and when you balance out the amount of smoke that is actually inhaled (inhaling a cigar is not easy, and any inhalations are incredibly shallow) . . . it is actually better than cigarettes. In my opinion, at least, I have no data to back this up, but if I smoke 3 cigars a day, the total amount of inhalations I will make is only about 1 in every 4 pulls. giving the average cigar about 60 pulls, that totals 180 pulls off 3 cigars, which means about 45 incredibly shallow inhalations. Throughout the day, the average smoker smokes a pack a day which totals 20 cigarettes, and the average cigarette lasts for 5 minutes, of constant deep inhalations, about one every 20 seconds or so, equating to about 15 deep inhalations per cigarette, now multiply that by 20 and you have 300 deep inhalations per day.
Granted a cigar may have more nicotine and more tar, but you would have to smoke over 10 cigars with shallow inhalations, to even account for half of the smoke ingested when smoking cigarettes.
ok babe, too late for me to recalculate that, but I smoke 50 cigarets a day. And gues what. It made me blind, or actually, it'll make me blind in a couple of years.
Know what is much better than cigars or cigarets, biting...
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