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King Edwards (torps or churchills) from a People's (aka CVS) drug store in 1970, smoked later that day after a Bullis Prep JV football game in Maryland.
I ripped it in half & had a celebration smoke with quarterback.

Macanudo while in Cabo circa 1990...



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Don Kiki Red, July 2012

1948 is a Club in the Swiss Alps. I was there in 1949.

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Hmmm ???
you type like FGM. I figured you werean old turd like him,,,

my bad..

Paired with Dom Perignon. Not kidding.







Many years of Swisher Sweet Perfectos followed after that.

A swisher sweet I lifted from my Dad when I was 11 (1969)

Backwoods ..1979 i think

Some time in the mid to late '70s. Believe it was my Uncle George that gave me my first cigar. Probably a White Owl. Or maybe a Dutch Masters. Didn't smoke it right away but when I did, bit the cap off a la Clint Eastwood. Didn't know I wasn't supposed to inhale (...hey, I'm no Bill Clinton!...) and fuggin' coughed my lungs out! Nasty! Vaguely remember tossing it out after a few minutes and it would be over 10 years before I smoked my next one.

My first one was when i was stationed back home in Hawaii. a little cigar shop around the corner from Gordon biersch. An Arturo Fuentes torpedo that my buddy said was rated 90 something in AF in the late 90s. Had no clue what he was talking about but smoked it and it was a nice smoke. we bought some befor we went home for about 8 buck each. did not get started again until the last year or so.

Used to bum Swisher Sweets off my Uncle when I was a teen and sent to his home in the mountains for the summer. Spent a good deal of my youth in boys reform schools (Boys Town or Sleepers) for what was then deemed as being "incorrigible" behavior. Learned early it was cheaper and afforded more benefits to have Swishers shipped in. Swisher wrappers also made it hard to find other smoking material at that time. Commissary would only allow you to purchase 2pks of cigarettes a week. But if you had your own shipped in or bought them from the someone else, there wasn't a limit. Made a killing off Swishers back then. And believe it or not, regardless of constant efforts with great NC & CC cigars gifted, my Uncle still prefers his Swishers.

Smoke what you like.


My brother took himself almost 5yrs ago from alcohol addiction. He lived with me until the end. I inherited his humi and his last cigar, and still have both. That's what really put me into cigars. I always smoke with every cigar, in remembrance of my brother, and what my Uncle gave me.

I think it was an A&C grenadier in 1983 right after my first son was born,had just given up cigarettes a couple months earlier.I remember the good old days when you could buy them for.25 cents at the bowling alley and smoke them INDOORS!

I don't remember what kind it was, but according to stories my Dad used to tell of when he was visiting his Uncle Walt. Apparently I had a penchant for tobacco products @ a young age ( probably born with nicotine addiction ) due to women (Mom included) smoking back then during their pregnancies. So during his visit the men were all smoking cigars and I kept picking up my Dad's and puffing on it, so in an attempt my Mom tried to nip it in the bud by making me smoke it until I was green in the face. ( it worked as I didn't smoke again till I was 17 ) I was 3-4 yrs old at the time, still have a picture somewhere.....

Probably a swisher in late 60's while in high school.

Quit smoking cigarettes multiple times. In 1980 or so, when I was going nuts for a cigarette, picked up some Dutch Masters cigars from a grocery store, thinking I will smoke that instead of cigarettes.

That strategy worked, no cigarettes since.

After a while of smoking the Dutch Masters, I happened to look at the ingredients listed on the side and it said "50% tobacco." I figured why not smoke 100% tobacco, found a local cigar store and then started smoking real cigars.

Very first one would have been a Roi-Tan around 1955-56. My dad and next door neighbor would smoke them on fight nights. To clarify for you youngsters, there used to be regularly televised fights twice a week, Wednesday and Friday, IIRC. One was sponsored by Gillette the other Pabst Blue Ribbon. None of this pay per view crap they have today. Most, if not all, of these fights were from MSG and included just about every great of the era, Sugar Ray, Basilio, Archie Moore, Marciano, La Motta etc. But I digress...Happy New Year my brothers and sisters!

Thurson, what an old fart!

My 1st was also a Roi-Tan lifted from a box my dad kept in his closet when I was 9-10 out behind the tool shed. I still remember sneaking in the closet and just smelling those and the aroma was intoxicating.

Started smoking the good stuff much later about 1980.

DED

LOL, Thanks for reminding me!

Can't remember which, but it was one of the machine made American cigars that we sold in my dad's grocery store. I was 12 or 13, so it was the mid 60's. We carried White Owl, Dutch Masters, Roi Tan, El Producto and King Edward (might've been that one, since it was a few pennies more). I remember selling cigars to some old customers, who would put the whole thing in their mouths to moisten them before lighting up. I snuck one home, went to the garage, put the cigar into my mouth, pulled it out through pursed lips like the old guys did and lit it up. Nearly coughed out a lung...

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)

Local boy or hapa transplant? Now i am in Jawga, long way from home. Parents are here visiting from home. I was there last year for dads 70th. Trying to get back next this year but probably will be next year. Had no idea actually. When i went home i did not leave the Kapolei area cuz was helpin dad fix da houz and at da beach. hhhhaaaaaaawwaiiiiiiannnn...

very cool stories

You know, I remember wanting to try cigars after going through a brief (and queasy) stint of Camels, Marlboros, and Luckies as a teen. Back then (late 60's) it was very easy for kids to buy tobacco. Funny though, 'cause there were really no dashing/glamorous role models either, not like there were with cigarettes anyway. Stogie smokers back then resembled Edward G. Robinson and Burt Young or were depicted as bums (toothpick through cigar stub, etc.) or rich cartoon fatcats.

Local boy, born and raised. Grew up mostly in the Kalihi-Palama area (...hence the Palama Settlement avatar...).

I guess no mo' poi where you stay

This is a cool thread ...On Mother's Day of 2003. My brother in law came over and forgot it was Mother's Day. He gave me a Makers Mark cigar in the tube. I laughed and said okay how about I smoke this now. I had it with some Makers Mark bourbon and I have been hooked ever since. 😎