Had my first cigar, at age 12, when my grandfather caught me smoking a swisher, back behind his barn. He told me if I was going to smoke, I shouldn't smoke crap. He gave me a RyJ, preembargo, and made me smoke it to the nub, and split a bottle of his homebrew with me. I have never been sicker in my life. After he passed, I found his scrap book, with the band, and a bottle cap, with the words," my grandson became a man today, and the date.
I have been smoking regularly, almost 30 years. It will be 30 years next March.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)