(Un)official Cigar o’ the day thread!

[JCinPA]

Another of my passions. Hopefully there is not a thread for cigars already started. If so I’ll delete this one.

Tonight’s “dessert”? Oliva Melania Serie V Especial Maduro, toro. Deelish!

 

[JCinPA]

And a little iconic jazz music from back in the day to go with my cigar.

 

[Back in the fold]

“ Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar “ .
Sigmund Freud .

 

[JCinPA]

 

[JCinPA]

I can’t believe there are no other cigar lovers here, especially with all the British represents. You guys are famous for it!

 

[JCinPA]

And music to go with tonight’s cigar and bourbon …

 

[GaryE]

I quit smoking 33 years ago, but the odd Cuban or Honduran cigar continued for long after that. I rarely even smell them around here anymore. I don't know of any surviving local stores for them - they seem to be a lost vice.

 

[MattW]

I wouldn't touch one, even a ciggy. All you have to do is look at the cigarette packets in the UK, and they'll put you off (even your food )
I do think cigars are a work of art though.

 

[JCinPA]

Yep. Cigars are different entirely. I enjoy the odd pipe now and again. Haven’t had a cigarette in decades.

 

[GaryE]

Around here, what you smell on the wind isn't tobacco. I don't think I've smelled a passing cigar in a decade. If I ever get told I have a few months left, I'm buying some cigars.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have a good friend who is a cigar guy. When I visit he gives me some great cigars to smoke. This includes an occasional Cuban. He is also friends with a major cigar importer seller and so the cigars are really good. I only smoke them when I visit and sometimes I came home with one.

But, I have COPD now and I do not smoke cigars much any more. I was a lifelong cigarette smoker. I quit after 47 years about 17 years ago. It was not soon enough

 

[Fishmanic]

I used to smoke cigars years ago. Oliva, Macanudos, Ashtons, Romeo and Jullietts. Gave it up for health reasons. I have a 76 year old friend who still smokes one cigar a day. He’s still in good health.

 

[JCinPA]

It is certainly an unpredictable thing. Look at George Burns! lol. I could avoid all the “bad” stuff and

A) I might not live longer anyway — Jim Fixx, the famous runner comes to mind.

B). I might live much longer, but how much fun would that be without a little of the “bad” stuff?

Of all the things you can do to try to lengthen your life—exercise, eating clean, no booze (or moderate, the jury is still out on that one), the biggest factor is the one you cannot control. Pick your parents well because genetics plays a big role.

Cigarettes are undeniably bad. Cigars, undeniably less so. Not bad? I wouldn’t go that far, but I don’t worry about it. Don’t worry, be happy!

Olivas are a good standard, I’m almost never disappointed in one. RyJ are also dependable. Padron is the gold standard for me, but some of the classic blenders’ products, like My Father by Don “Pepin” Garcia, or New World cigars by AJ Fernandez are amazing. As was that Judge!

 

[GaryE]

I used to be able to walk around the corner and buy reasonably priced Cuban cigars. They were good. And I had a Honduran friend who'd bring me back their cigars when he visited family, pretty regularly. I enjoyed them. They kept the mosquitoes away.

Since I was diagnosed with diabetes, I've live more cleanly than I'd ever considered likely. I think all we can do is avoid the obvious killers (cigarettes, excessive booze, obesity, hard drugs and really dumb activities) and keep our other vices moderate. I mean, there's fishkeeping. It takes money like vices do, and it satisfies some urges, like the urge to get more aquariums.

Do I miss cigars? At this very moment, you betcha. But not generally. Somehow, I guess because inhaling would have done real damage, they didn't become addictive the way cigarettes did. That was a nasty habit, in hindsight. But now I'm an old asthmatic geezer who inhales his ventolin.

 

[JCinPA]

Yikes! Sorry to hear about your asthma. Definitely don’t do cigars! I am type 2 Diabetic but my A1C is very well controlled, I think it was 6.0 last time I had lab work done. I use a CGM because it helps me eat correctly, but an occasional cigar is not what will kill me. Lol

Apparently there are not other cigar smokers here, though. The what are you cooking gets some traffic, this does not. I posted in cooking this morning.

I won’t be posting any more cigar pics unless someone else posts one, though. We’ll let this thread die for lack of interest.