How Long Have You Smoked Cigars?
 

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Off and on since the mid 90s, but steady since 2002ish.

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I'm definitely still a noob - I think I'm coming up on six years, the first two of which were pretty sporadic. I also think I'd like to forget a lot of what I smoked the first four of those years (http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/images_...doublepuke.gif), although I'm sure I enjoyed them very much at the time.

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I've been smoking for 8 glorious months

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Just about 14 years... :ss

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3 years exactly in 10 days.

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14 months regularly.

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I smoked off and on in college and even after college. Nothing serious just a cigar here and there and a half full 25 count humidor of Te-Amos or La Unicas was A-OK by me. I started taking the hobby serious about 5 years ago where I started smoking more regularly and building a collection of smokes. I think it all began when I was in a highly stressful position and I just needed a hobby that would take my mind off of work and allow me to relax and the interest in cigars was right under my nose. Now this hobby of ours will be a part of my life forever.

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Just celebrated 2 years of smoking pleasure!! :ss

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I've been enjoying our hobby here for about 14 years now. Started when I was 18 by jumping in with both feet and trying to learn as much as I could about cigars in general. A few years in my 20's the hobby kind of fell to the back of the line as far as importance, but for the last several years it's moved back to the forefront and has maintained it's place as a steady part in my life.

It's a great hobby that can easily be placed aside when life calls for it, and then just as easily picked back up again when the world slows down a bit.

:ss

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Been smoking for about 13 years, somewhat on and off. Always had full humis but some years it was several sticks a week and some years only one every couple months. Back to several a week.

~Vitis

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It was 1 year in October. :D

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off and on, more on since '86

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I've only been into them since about June last year after trying me first.

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since 1996, my cigar consumption fell off for a few years but I came back with a vengeance August of 2006,

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Just under 2 years.

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I have been smoking for almost 3 years. What I thought would be a new hobby has quickly become an obsession.

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bought a Oliva O maduro on my 18th birthday, 24 now

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2 years and a month. It was the best birthday present I could've given myself.

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First cigar was in 1995.

First hand-made that I remember was in 96. Fuente

Started smoking seriously in 2006.

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Genesis Chapter 1

Oh wait, that's when AL started smoking.......:r

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Started smoking in the summer of 06, didn't get hooked right away. For christmas last year I was given a small humi and a couple cigars. I haven't been the same since. :ss

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15 yrs for me and gawd did I smoke some turds back then :ss

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3-4 months or something

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Been smoking cigars for the last 12 years. Only got serious about it in the last couple of years.

Will

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Just about 20 years. Started right before the cigar boom.

MCS

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I started this year in Jan when a friend gave me a cohiba toro (red dot) at a Christmas party. I know Christmas party in jan :). I found that i enjoyed it. then while getting ready for vacation, he gave me another cohiba XV, which i enjoyed also. so a year for me.

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August 15 2000 to current date...first cigar was a NC Monte #2....

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Man, you guys make me feel real old! :D I started about 30 to 35 years ago when we used to get into my dads stash. There were some bad cigars back in the 70's and 80's compared to the quality we can aquire now. The best was getting into my dad's stash as he was a collector of the old cuban cigars.

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About 19 years. Heck, I remember when C.I. first started and their "catalog" was one or two sheets of paper. I started with Thompson's before the boom and they actually had one house brand that I liked. The boom hit and that particular cigar turned to crap.

WyoBob

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About 2-1/2 years and have totally enjoyed the ride.

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A Marsh & Wheeling stogie in 1962. I was 12. Never stopped - 1 or 2 a day.

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Yikes,,,guess I'm the oldster here with 40 years under my belt. Started when I was 14 and have been hooked since then. During High School I smoked at least 3 cigars a week and after 21 it was about 3-5 a week and now I average about 5-7 per week.

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Over 20 years for smoking cigars.

Oh, good cigars? A little over 5 years. :r

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25 years of 1-2 a week in the winter to 7-8 a week in the summer. Next/last 5 have been a little more extreme. :D

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Since '81 occasionally. I started smoking at least one a week in about '87. About a year ago I found CS and my smoking ramped up a bit. :ss

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a bit over 3 years now :)

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I started around '94 and have gotten more serious every year since . When I'm asked at a new B&M what I like I usually answer anything but flavored and maduro . I do like some maduro's but not too many , Anejos and Ashton aged maduro's are all usually . I do like Cameroon , Corojo , Sun-Grown and Oscuro's too . I don't usually care for very light Connecticut wrappers either . :ss

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Little over 2 years.

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You don't like Maduros? My god man.

Have you tried any of the Padron Maduros yet, especially the Padron Anniversary?

Will

Never mind, I just re-read your post. After 15 years of smoking, I guess you've figured out what you like by now.

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4 years last month

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A little over 25 years - cigars and pipes. Sometimes the cigars have predominated, sometimes the pipe has.

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About 40 years, alternating between pipes and cigars. Last 5 or 6 years much more serious about cigars to the point of keeping several humidors and a cooler.

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I was 16 with my first cigars and pipe.
In Vermont vacationing with my Folks, Brother and NANA. NANA chose the first tobacco for my pipe. Cherry Blend, I think...
Cigars....
There was a store in Newark, NJ that rolled it's own (I lived in Elizabeth and Linden)...I would buy boxes of fresh rolled from them.
My humidifying was terrible in the early years

I'm 56 nowadays :)

Tom

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I don't like many maduros . One I forgot to mention that I like is the Fuente Curly Head Deluxe maduro . As for Padrons , never had one of them I liked either , always taste harsh and ashy to me , once I even got that black gooey tar like stuff from the cut end while smoking it .

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I always have a tough time answering this question. I've smoked cigarettes way back, and always enjoyed those wine tipped cigarellos or the small Panters. Even smoked a pipe for a while.
But the "real" cigar smoking started about 4-5 years ago. Long after I quit cigarettes. But only the occassional one back then.
Never owned a humidor, or understood why I would need one until 5 months ago. Now I own 3 and looking at making a coolador. :hm

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I have been a fan of cigars for 4 years now!!

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A little over a year now. Only in the past few months have I really started to build my stock up, in fact I have already begun to fill my first coolerador!

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I remember what started the snowball effect. I went to Europe after graduating my apprenticeship as an Electrician and bought a box of Romeo y Julieta's. I don't remember which onces they exactly were.
That was about 2.5 years ago.