I smoke almost everything to a very tiny Nub (just ask ucubed or s0lfulone). I find that sometimes a stick that has went a little bitter opens up in the last 1 - 1/2 inch. And sometimes I have had sticks that were mild for most of the cigar really blow me away in the last inch. This has happened often enough that it has become standard for me.
Plus in the words of Denis Leary "The filters the best part. That's where they put the heroine." Or for us cigar smokers.... the nub
