re: What’s your favorite cigar?

Comacho rum barrel aged. I have a few I like to smoke regularly, but that’s the first to come to mind.

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Any of the Padron 1964 Anniversary series are wonderful sticks.

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Agreed... I like the natural too... but there's something just sublime about a maduro in that series.

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As a pipe smoker I will add my singular observation on cigar versus pipes.. Generally a good cigar will be as good as or better than a pipe from the smokers experience.. but the bystander(s) generally will prefer pipes aromas..

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As a devout cigar smoker I will agree 100% that a pipe is infinitely more enjoyable for bystanders. I tried taking up pipe smoking but it was too much handling for me. I can smoke a cigar while working in my shop and when I put it down for 5 - 10 minutes it will still be lit. When I tried to take up pipe smoking I spent more time trying to get the thing to draw correctly and filled and lit than I did anything else other than sleep at night. Seems very relaxing but there is a HEAP of ritual required to smoke a pipe properly.

For anyone who has not experienced do not ever, under any circumstances, hire a pipe smoker who will be smoking their pipe while at work. This used to be common. A pipe smoker will spend 6 hours out of 8 hour work day filling, lighting, dumping, cleaning and refilling a pipe. They are all fantastic company and terrific conversationalists, in my experience, no one better to spend a day in a duck blind or on the deck of a boat with, but when it comes to getting any work done, forget about it...if they are smoking and working at the same time they are smoking at least 80% of the time, or at least getting the pipe ready to smoke.