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brianradomski
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uhm :"boots" referred me to I think here??? 101 or 102 as a newbie I just joined sometime thanksgiving week end. I need to get educated NO offense to ANYONE BUT I purely hate cigarettes....watched to many relatives suffocate to death from smoking them. I crave and adore cigars n pipes. Why did Winston churchill nad "george burms" smoke cigars and live into their 90s Groucho marx smoked cigars and lived to 86.....I get so's I can t breath I have to lay off....am I a wuss pansy OR am I smoking trash cigars...I do not I will not inhale. I need to smoke finer more expensive cigars??? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!
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This is 102 awesome things you should know
This is a rabbit hole of cigar stuff. None know how deep it truly goes.
Bunch of good info for new members here
The OFFICIAL un-official newbie welcoming thread
Found something you like? Don't like? Want to trade? The newbie trading thread is the place for you. Beware, there be dragons
Again, welcome. Great piles of cool guys here, and one crazy man named after a month.
As a newb myself I have come to the conclusion (regardless of jthanatos's welcome post), there are no sane people here, just me.
I've been a cigarette smoker for 21 years, and a cigar smoker off and on for quite a few years also. Now, I'm also rather physically active, but I've never ran into an issue to where I couldn't breathe.
Go see a doc, always best to have a professional check it out....we're not so good at diagnostics here.
corona deluxe" perfect size I love their size but i read about them, i w as disapointed as to their ingredients and they are machine made mass produced. I read about garcia Y vega english coronas: machine made but out of tobacco from south america so better?? NOT the same size though as the Dutch masters. uhm, a discussion?
Aj
Almost anything with a Connecticut wrapper is likely to be mild, and it sounds like you need to start with mild.
Also, it sounds very much like you're smoking too fast. Your cigar should burn evenly, no "cone" on the end, but a nice even look when you ash it. A Toro size cigar, 6 inches by 48-50 ring gauge, usually lasts me about 1 3/4 - 2 1/4 hours, depending.
Don't smoke when you're stressed out, you'll smoke too fast, inhale by accident, and end up with your head spinning and your lungs wheezing.
Now, tell us about you?
We're a pretty friendly bunch here, willing to give help and advice to newbies, but if you've followed events closely lately, you'll notice that we're sometimes attacked by fanatic "Anti-All Forms of Tobacco N a z i 's", it would be nice to know that you're legit, and not trying to sucker the evil cigar smokers into saying something that can be twisted into some form of propaganda at a later time.
No offense, but it's the world we live in. We here believe in freedom of choice as to how we live our lives, but the fear mongers and power mongers of the world are out there, determined to "make the world safe", and in steady denial of the fact that that goal is not only impossible, but quite undesirable, as it would lead to a static gray life, a life not worth living.
This can happen on hand mades, but usually people make the cut large enough and smoke them slower that it doesn't seem to happen a lot.
That tar can make you sick, tastes awful and can cause allergic reactions, similar to an asthma attack.
It's rare, but can happen.
It's quite possible that you are smoking the machine mades too fast and the tar is building up on the tip and it is causing a reaction.
If you like smoking the machine mades, try either smoking slower or get a cutter and cut the tip a little larger and see if that helps.
This is all guess work, but may be what you are running into, I don't know.