Cigar Thread

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Ok here is my situation:
I am in college so money is tight so i dont wanna spend a load of money on cigars. As of right now I dont have a humidor and I dont really smoke that much. I have probably smoked 5 cigars since school started.
Basically I am looking for some cigar recommendations that would be relatively cheap (around $1-3 per stick). Also if anyone has any recommendations for cheap humidors. I have a cigar shop near my but I havent yet gone there
Thanks for any advice

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I'm pretty happy with the mid-sized humidor I bought at cheaphimidors.com. Also if you Google "cheap humidors" you will get some decent links to other sites and information.

For decent discounted cigars try JR Cigar's online store. Good cigars in that range include Don Diego, H Upmann and many others. Look for the specials too.

~ Rick

[O Fen�meno]

thanks for the advice, jrcigars looks pretty good. How necessary is a humidor, since I am a novice smoker will i really notice the difference between leaving them in the box on top of my desk and keeping them in a humidor?
edited to include humidor deal
Does this seem like a good deal?

[BretWeir]

My go-to cheap cigar is La Finca , which is a decent, medium strength, long-filler Nicaraguan. Their coronas go for $39.95 for a box of 25 on jrcigars.com.

I've tried the AF Curly Heads and they're good value for your money (pretty much anything AF makes is good). They're made with scraps from the regular Fuente production so you're getting good tobacco. But it's not a true long-filler cigar and the construction can be a bit iffy sometimes -- they tend to fall apart and get "mushy" quicker than regular long-filler smokes. My experience is they also burn a little hotter.

If the smokes sit out for more than a week, you'll definitely notice the difference if you don't use a humidor -- they'll taste dried out and harsher. But you don't need anything fancy. You can get a decent 25 to 30-cigar capacity box for less than $50 -- just google "cheap humidors." Even a big ziploc bag or tupperware container with a $20 Credo humidification disk will do the trick.

[BretWeir]

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Does this seem like a good deal?

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This looks pretty solid. I'm not a huge fan of Gurkhas, but they're definitely smokeable. Add in all the extra stuff -- butane lighter, cutter -- and it's a good deal for $50. Only caution is that the humidor is pretty small -- it'll only hold about half a box at a time. But overall, this looks like a nice starter kit.

[Rick Nebiolo]

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thanks for the advice, jrcigars looks pretty good. How necessary is a humidor, since I am a novice smoker will i really notice the difference between leaving them in the box on top of my desk and keeping them in a humidor?
edited to include humidor deal
Does this seem like a good deal?

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Keep in mind this is a real small humidor; something you wouldn't be able to store even a single box of regular cigars. OK for a desktop if you are taking them to the office from a regular sized one though.

In this size range JR would often have small humidor deals with I think better cigars. Also a while back there was a humidor thread (or perhaps it's somewhere in this one).

I'd say a humidor is very necessary. For years I used a JR style (BTW, Lou Rothman, owner of JR Cigar writes funny ad copy) "iglooadoor"' essentially a plastic tub with the humidity devices but since I got the humidor as a gift a few years back I'm getting much better results.

~ Rick

PS Please forgive grammar, this was written during a commercial break of the Red Sox game [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[O Fen�meno]

Ok i have been doing some more research and found what i think are pretty good deals on Thompson cigar. Which of these two deals do you guys think is better?
deal 1
or
2

[O Fen�meno]

I ended up going with the second deal, including shipping it was only $35 for a 25 count humidor and 25 cigars.

[Rick Nebiolo]

Sounds good.

If you live in a low humidity area you might want to add something like this to your humidor (put the beads in an empty pill bottle). I live in relatively dry area of California and found the single humidifying device that comes with the humidor not quite up to the task. It also helps keep things right on 70% humidity (I bought the more expensive digital checker). The cheap gages given with these deals will usually be way off and drive you crazy.

Also regarding cheap cigars you may want to try GENUINE PRE-EMBARGO COUNTERFEIT CUBAN EPICURE CIGARS from JR Cigar. Sports betting buddy and I just had one in the Jacuzzi after we gave up on the Sox game. Good for the price.

~ Rick

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Even a big ziploc bag or tupperware container with a $20 Credo humidification disk will do the trick.

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The tupperware version is what JR calls the "igloadoor" [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

~ Rick

[O Fen�meno]

I recently moved to providence for college so not sure about the humidity levels here. Those look pretty nice. Rick thanks for all the help, my usual cigar is a white owl from 7/11 with my friends but I wanna move up in the world of cigars