Cigar Smokers

All down to technique. Practice for a week or so without lighting it until you're familiar with handling it and drawing on it.
Pipesmokers spend more time fiddling about than actually smoking, so by not lighting it you won't be any different from the others anyway!
I confess I do enjoy a pipe from time to time.
Perhaps I got the wrong tobacco
 
Not a smoker but a mate got me a box of Cohiba Esplendidos from Cuba a while back. I have maybe 1-2 a year, usually after a BBQ sitting out in the sun in the garden or at a wedding, and I do enjoy them. I did invest in a cheapy desktop humidor to keep them fresh which seems to be working as long as you top the water up.

I find having one is enough to scratch the itch for a while so its not something I would ever get into regularly, especially not at retail prices which are quite frankly mad, but as an occasional thing its a nice way to pass an hour or two.
 
Quote a fan of a decent cigar, that and a good rum. Cuban doesn't always mean good, some very good new works smokes and as with spirits, individual tastes vary significantly.

They've been mentioned before but the Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure Especial and Epicure no. 2 are hard to beat for me.

Many more enjoyable smokes come to mind but another that stands out is the Ghurks Ghost.
 
I've still got one Habana ROMEO y JULIETA Romeo No2, keeping for a very special day! Was getting Alvaro Saludos in Spain, but I think they're out of production now. When in Germany I stock up on Vasco da Gama No2 Caribbean and No2 Claro (Sumatra) Coronas. At my slow rate of consumption they last a good while.

For pipes I have a Smith's Dry Smoker, and 2 Peterson's (Sherlock Holmes and Churchwarden), currently on Three Nuns, also from Germany, and equally low consumption.

Stuff too dear to buy in the UK, even if you don't use much.
 
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Well I don't know about Cuban cigars so these are from first time home tobacco plants, cured in the greenhouse and hand rolled, shame I don't smoke! but friends say they are very mild.
 
Having smoked my last cigar at the end of the fighting (First Gulf War) I declared never again unless in the same circumstance.
 
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