My dad was and is a cigar smoker and he often allowed me to smoke Swishers with him when my mom was away. My buddies would come over to stay the night and we'd all smoke with my dad on the back porch--I think we were around 14 years old. I've spent the last 14 years smoking cigars off and on. What's your story?

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When i would go camping/fishing with my high school teammates/buddies. We'd select a little island on the mississippi and be there for about a week or so. we ate what we caught. Of course we'd take things like canned beans/goods, dry goods, tents, radio, alcohol of course, and i'd be responsible for the stogies. we started with the swishers & then i explored the local cigar shops. i was 15 or 16 at the time and have not looked back. i did however leave the swishers where they belong, that being in the past.

Had a swisher right after my 18th birthday. Since my father smoked, I soon moved on to NC Punch cigars, and Arturo Fuente sungrowns.

you know when I was around 13 yrs, I would either steal my uncle's unhumidified king edwards or buy swisher sweets. This didnt happen all the time of course but I remember this as my first cigar experience. Didnt really mess with them for several years after that.

I'm pretty sure it was the first semester of my senior year, when I had just turned 18, around late October or early November of 2005. We went to a nearby B&M, asked the guy what his favorite affordable smoke was, and were handed three AF 8-5-8. My two best friends and I smoked them in one of my friends back yards and had a good time just hanging out and shooting the breeze for an hour and a half.

well go to he**. is that a good first experience or what. damn joe, you didnt smoke any crappers from the gas station ?? what a first experience. good for you. you did it the rightest way possible IMO.

My first cigar was a stolen one probably around 14-15. A friend's parents recently had an addition to their family, a little boy. His dad had a box of some cigars, that said its a boy. We stole two and went away from his parents house on a bike trail and lit it up. I tend to believe it was a decent smoke as it was a macanudo or af. Of course we thought we were the coolest people around.

I used to get all the little Mac's back in the day. Now I will only get them from friends as nice gestures/gifts. I am thinking about giving their new line a try. Too many other ones though.

My first cigar was a King Edward that my great uncle gave me when I was like 7 or 8 because he thought it would be funny to watch me turn green and also keep me from smoking as I got older. Let me say that he was not the uncaring bastard I made him out to be by saying that, but I always bothered him for one of his cigars and he finally gave in. Well, the joke was on him, because I never turned green and ended up smoking the entire thing. I can't say that I continued to smoke cigars from that point on, but did pick them up at 18 when I entered the military.

I started on Macanudo

My first, I'm ashamed to say, was a cherry black and mild my freshman year of college. I went to a small Christian college in indiana, so I felt like quite the rebel smoking a cigar (if that's what you can call it).

my first was a little over a year ago with my friend on his 18th bday at the beach. it was a RyJ 1875 bully iirc. i was 18 at the time

My first was a Robert Burns clear Havana Cuban. I thought it smelled like a barnyard and tasted like one too.

It was a CC. Don't remember for sure: it was either La Corona brand (now discontinued) or something else corona size. Something corona - I remember that on the box.

In my grandfather's basement. I found a Romeo y Juliet in a silver metal casing. It obviously wasn't kept well. It tasted like chewing on metal. I'll never forget that taste.

About 15 years ago, I was introduced to a Macanudo Hyde Park and Fuente 8-5-8. I stuck with the Fuente.

About two years ago, I found this forum which completely opened me up to the world of cigars.

Thanks guys!

I grew up seeing my grandpa smoking smoking cigars all the time so I think I was about 16 or 17 when I started smoking A&C's

I lost my cigar viriginity right after I lost my actual virginity. Hell, what better time to celebrate?

And before you ask, NO, there was no Bill Clinton action going on.

When I was about 7-years old my grandmother passed away and my grandfather came to live with us. He smoked White Owl, a 6-pack a day. He played Pinochle with my moms uncle every day to help pass the time.

When I was about 11 I was watching them play and asked if they could teach me. I was told a little about the game and was also told that one of the things about Pinochle was to smoke a cigar (my moms uncle smoked Bering Coronas (Cuban in those days in an aluminium tube).
They dealt me a hand and lit me up a White Owl. After a few puffs I was really sick.

When my mom came home and found out she was livid. Next day I was back looking for a Bering.

After that I didn't smoke again until I was about 15.

As far as cigars are concerned, back in college a good friend of mine and myself would go to the Tinder Box and pick up a tin of these black cigarillos, don't remember the name of them but they were pretty good. Gave up smoking "almost" everything, never really smoked cigarettes either. Then when CA started their magazine, I became interested in premium cigars. However, I didn't start smoking cigars until around 1994-1995 not sure when exactly. My very first cigar was a Hemingway Short Story. I remember I could not beleive how intensely sweet and spicy that little cigar was, and have never been able to re-capture that intense flavor experience. About a week later a friend from Hawaii sent me a couple Bolivar Royal Coronas. Again, I had an intense flavor experience and loved it and have been in love with the Bolivar Royal Corona ever since.

I turned 18 and my dad handed me a Punch Chateau L and I never looked back.

My first would have been probably 45 years ago in my grandmothers orchard with my cousins. She had a grape arbor and of course we lit up some grapevine. That lasted about 5 puffs with terrible burning in the throat and immediate green gills. Didn't smoke again until Navy bootcamp and then enjoyed Wolf Brothers Rum Soaked Crooks with my fellow shipmates. Tried a pipe off and on in the Navy and then quit altogether. About 15 years ago started cigars from a little Cuban coffee place in Houston. Had a couple of different cigars from the Cuban Cigar Factory, even though I knew they were not real cubans they were okay. Then finding the internet, I really took off with cigars and never looked back..