Courtesy of StogyGuys. (I'm able to check off 8 of them)
Tip: Eighteen Things Every Cigar Smoker Should Do In Their Lifetime
[We’ve updated an article from a few years ago that was titled: “Sixteen Things Every Cigar Smoker Should Do In Their Lifetime.”]
Cigar smokers can live a long time. Just ask Richard Overton, a WWII veteran who lived to be 112 and smoked dozens of cigars a day. That gives you plenty of time to do lots of amazing things.
To help out, we brainstormed a list of eighteen cigar-related activities every cigar smoker should accomplish in their lifetime:
1. Smoke a cigar in a rental car. (There may be a cleaning fee involved.)
2. Make your own cigar blend, then smoke it. (Be prepared for it not to be very good, but that isn’t the point.)
3. Smoke a pre-embargo Cuban. (No, cigars made with a portion of pre-embargo Cuban tobacco don’t count.)
4. Visit a cigar factory abroad. (And a tobacco field while you are there.)
5. Smoke two cigars at once. (It’s actually a good way to develop your palate.)
6. Visit Cuba. (It’s easier than you think.)
7. Give someone their first cigar. (Maybe on their 18th birthday?)
8. Enjoy a cigar and drink at Casa Fuente in Las Vegas. (Try the Don Carlos Caipirinha.)
9. Buy the cigar you’ve always wanted to smoke, no matter the price. (Spend $30, $50, $100, or more.)
10. Light up a cigar someplace you shouldn’t. (Act shocked when you are told you can’t enjoy your cigar there.)
11. Pair Pappy Van Winkle bourbon with your favorite cigar. (Bourbon that costs $100 an ounce must be amazing, right?)
12. Smoke a cigar on the beach. Either early morning after an AM surf or camping out on the beach late at night, it’s the perfect place.
13. Buy a friend “It’s a boy/girl” cigars to celebrate a birth. (Remind the new dad, he should give them out, not smoke them all.)
14. Visit Calle Ocho in Little Havana. (It’s kinda like Cuba, but still in America.)
15. Wake up early to read the newspaper with a cigar and coffee. (Your local paper, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Enquirer… it doesn’t matter.)
16. Smoke cigars with friends around a bonfire you made. (Bonus points if you chopped the wood for the bonfire yourself.)
17. Light up a celebratory cigar when your favorite team wins the championship. (Hopefully you aren’t a Browns fan.)
18. Smoke with your dad or son. There’s nothing quite like generational bonding over a premium cigar.
–The Stogie Guys
1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, and 16 for me.
I checked off 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18.
