| Enjoying a good cigar can be compared to tasting a | | | | Cigar smoking tips |
| good wine; that is why expert smokers actually | | | | Once it is lighted, take the cigar to your lips and blow it |
| ‘taste’ the smoke coming out of every cigar. | | | | prior to the first breath; this will dissipate any unwanted |
| Taste glands are the best mechanism the human | | | | flavor consequence of the lighting. Once this is done, fill |
| body has to determine the quality of a good smoke. | | | | your mouth with cold smoke and keep it there without |
| One breath that involves the complexity and the | | | | inhaling it; take the cigar out of your mouth, and slowly |
| flavors combination of a pure cigar can be compared | | | | blow it out. Please hold an instant before the next puff. |
| to the pleasure of tasting a great wine or an exquisite | | | | Do not rush, it is recommended that you take intervals |
| meal. | | | | of a minute or so, to prevent the cigar from blowing |
| Cigar clubs and bars are growing in the main cities of | | | | off. Remember, the faster you smoke, the least you |
| the world, making London the Mecca due to its trade | | | | will enjoy the experience, as the cigar will heat |
| and consuming capacity. When smoking in public | | | | excessively and produce a bitter flavor. The head of |
| places was prohibited in the United States, a frenzy of | | | | the cigar should be kept as dry as possible, hence |
| cigar bars was unleashed. Cigar Aficionado is the most | | | | avoid keeping the cigar in your mouth for too long. A |
| important publication in the cigar world consisting on a | | | | cigar with moisture starts to lose flavor when nicotine |
| monthly printout of 750,000.00 magazines. Regardless | | | | and tar start mixing with saliva, therefore, do not hold |
| of the place you visit, it will not be long before you can | | | | your cigar for more than three minutes on every |
| identify a cigar lover; he lives in camaraderie | | | | smoke. |
| environments. Such environment is much nicer, more | | | | The first half of the cigar is different to the second, the |
| cultural and perfumed than the one from cigarette | | | | smoke increases and the flavor intensifies as you |
| smokers. | | | | smoke which is not always positive. This happens |
| Cigars are said to be a unique experience due to the | | | | after having smoked a third of the cigar (expert cigar |
| following: Very few tobacco varieties are used to | | | | smokers can tell when this moment has been reached, |
| elaborate a good cigar, which is planted and aged with | | | | and proceed to light off the cigar, as it had already |
| extreme caution | | | | transpired its thru essence; not doing so will end up in |
| - The fermentation process makes the tobacco | | | | an unpleasant sensation as the cigar turns bitterer by |
| leaves lose most of their nicotine | | | | the minute). |
| - Cigars designed to burn at very low temperatures, in | | | | Hold the cigar gently but firmly, try not to squeeze it, as |
| other words, its tobacco should never be excessively | | | | it may impact the blow. Hold it between your thumb, |
| heated so it dies not lose its softness. | | | | index and middle fingers. |
| - Smoke is not a secondary element, but the key to | | | | The ashtray should be the cigar’s rest place; let it |
| the pleasure, since the smoke contains the flavor and | | | | burn off, so it will rapidly consume and generate less |
| aroma that only a cigar can provide. | | | | smell than pushing it against the ashtray. |