Light a cigar backwards?

[daboose]

Please tell me I’m not the only one who’s done this? Is there a support group?:rolleyes:

I took off the label of a perfecto, clipped the end while I was in the house. Got comfortable on the deck and stared at it and thought…humm, which end is the foot? Being too lazy to run back upstairs and compare it…I ended up lighting the head…

It’s not going to be a good day. :bh

[Knip23]

LOL sometimes it happens, most of time it involes Jack or Sailor Jerrys :P

[Mr.Erskine]

I have actually heard of people doing that on purpose just to give a cigar a different perspective.

[csbrewfisher]

This would be one reason to leave the label on.

That said, yes...I've done it. It was a figurado on a very dark hot-tub night. :(

[Volt]

Yep - done it myself. And yes the taste changes to me when smoked backwards.

[srduggins]

I accidently dropped a cigar after cutting the foot, picked it up and started toasting the foot. Luckily I noticed pretty early and stopped. After looking and thinking about it, I recut the foot and toasted the head. I was pretty new to smoking at the time and felt pretty stupid.

[marge796]

I must try this with my next stick.


:tu


Chris.....

[md4958]

Cigars are blended and rolled to be lit from the foot end. If you were to light a cigar backwards, you would be smoking the stronger half of the cigar first, leaving the rest bland by comparison.

[marge796]

I understand this I'm just a little intrigued.

[bscottskangum]

So, what were to happen if I cut my cigar in half, then smoked both halves backwards?

[Razorhog]

So, what were to happen if I cut my cigar in half, then smoked both halves backwards?

:r

[Gary]

Ha ha I did this a few days ago with a small stick that had no band. I felt real bright, but it tasted just fine.

[ChicagoWhiteSox]

Ive never done this, knock on wood

[ucla695]

I haven't done it yet, but I can see how it can easily happen. :)

[T.G]

So, what were to happen if I cut my cigar in half, then smoked both halves backwards?

Total protonic reversal.

[Thrak]

I did this on a 5Vegas Relic the band had fallen off of... it was.... odd.

[bscottskangum]

Total protonic reversal.

So I shouldn't try this?
I was going to do this somewhere in the vicinity of the Large Hadron Collider and see what happens.

[ucla695]

So, what were to happen if I cut my cigar in half, then smoked both halves backwards?

Depends on which half you smoke first. ;)

[Noomis]

A good way to tell on a perfecto, even without the band, is that the head of the cigar's got a cap on it.

[php007]

Haven't done this and don't plan on doing it.

[Volt]

Haven't done this and don't plan on doing it.


Hehe - no one plans on doing it - it just happens.

[Salvelinus]

Not yet, but I can see me doing this in the future.

[sikk50]

I done it.

Felt dumb, but it was when I first started and it was one of like 12 cigars in my humidor so smoked it anyway

[The EVP]

That's why I cut perfectos at a slight angle (called the Dyckman Cut). This cut also allows the smoke to automatically start swirling around your mouth and thus the flavors can be more pronounced.

[Starscream]

No, but I cut a Lusi in half.;)

[adampc22]

Please tell me I’m not the only one who’s done this? Is there a support group?:rolleyes:

I took off the label of a perfecto, clipped the end while I was in the house. Got comfortable on the deck and stared at it and thought…humm, which end is the foot? Being too lazy to run back upstairs and compare it…I ended up lighting the head…

It’s not going to be a good day. :bh

you barbarian :r

[chippewastud79]

No, but I cut a Lusi in half.;)

Real men cut Lusi's in half :tu

[CasaDooley]

Total protonic reversal.

It would be bad… Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.":r

[Starscream]

Real men cut Lusi's in half :tu

Damn right.:tu

[sikk50]

That's why I cut perfectos at a slight angle (called the Dyckman Cut). This cut also allows the smoke to automatically start swirling around your mouth and thus the flavors can be more pronounced.

:tpd:

[Razorhog]

I got real close to lighting the wrong end of a funky shaped little Perdomo 2.

[357]

It would be bad… Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.":r

I was thinking of the same quote "I'm a little fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. Define bad."

[Ferrari5180]

I have done it a couple of times in my "newbie" smoking days when I was just a kid. I used to cut tight cigars in half in hopes of getting more smoke and also light cigars from the other end because of a lack of a cutter.

Honestly, the taste changes but the cigar still has its true good flavors if it is a good cigar to begin with. However, my smoking backwards or in half days are over :)