Just Curious

[Newt]

How old were you when you started smoking/chewing/smoking cigars...

11 here :( I've been a bad man for a long time :twisted:

[coma]

'tis was 1979, the song was Funkee town and I was smoking my first fresh roled waky tabbaccie!! :lol: :shock:

First time I smoked a cigarette I was 8 a butt from my dads ashtray :-& , but didn't start smokin them untill 6th grade, luky's

[hawkan2580]

Well if you count all types of tobacco.. mmm.. I was about 10-11.. the occassional try before then ..became a regular user of a Swedish product called wet snus.. (a wet tobacco that you mould with your finger to a small ball and have under your lip.. anyone seen any Swedish hockey players in NHL will know what I referr to)..

Cigarettes at 14..

Cigars at 16...

Hey Newt.. glad that I am not the only bad boy here he he he he.. now to the interesting story.. how old where you when you had your first woman? :wink:

[klmhoward]

started chewing when I was about 12. Still smoke cigarettes, but only when I'm out drinking.

[Newt]

Hey Newt.. glad that I am not the only bad boy here he he he he.. now to the interesting story.. how old where you when you had your first woman? :wink:

11 as well... it was a good year for me :twisted:

[hawkan2580]

Hey Newt.. glad that I am not the only bad boy here he he he he.. now to the interesting story.. how old where you when you had your first woman? :wink:

11 as well... it was a good year for me :twisted:

Damn, 13 here.. :wink: But I did some silly things in that department while touring as a musician.. that's gotta count for something he he he :twisted:

[Viper139]

Cigarettes about 17, cigars 23, pipe 24, the other 13.

I have given up 2 out of 4. :smt017

[phailure]

wow.... I didn't start till 19

[Black Dog]

When I was about 10 we kept Beechnut chewing tobacco in the barn. We had a pony that like to eat it. I tried it one day but didn't know you weren't supposed to swallow the stuff. :smt078
I didn't smoke or chew anything else until I discovered the wildwood weed in 1976 at age 14. Gave it up at 19 and started chewing tobacco and smoking an occasional cigar at 20. I still use smokeless tobacco but dip the skoal type rather than leaf.

[jckposter]

You guys scare me....

[dbaranska]

Started chewing Kodak at 20 while in collage...damb that girl that gave me my first chew...I still remember it.....also started smoking cigars regulary...then...

[coastalwader]

I've been thinking about this and I've come to the conclusion that I'm too damn old to remember! :lol:

10 - 12... hellifiknow!

[Wasch_24]

Whacky 17
The 'other thing' 18...prom night :oops:
Cigs 19...quit May this year
Cigars 27...July this year

[1f1fan]

cigs, 13, then again at 17 for a while
other stuff around 15
dip/chew 16
cigars 16-18 on and off for a few years after that. I started smoking cigars on a regular basis around 22.

Now its just cigars and I couldn't be happier :lol:

[Ironman]

I smoked cigarettes in High School

Started smoking the real leaf at 39 :shock:

Ironman

[tubaman]

cigarettes in HS, gave them up at 24. Started smoking cigars around 30

[Jwrussell]

Cigarettes at the age of 12. I remember it vividly. My best bud up in up-state NY and I were out in his backyard in a tent-"camping out" during a visit and he busted out the Marlboro Reds. Coughed my ever-loving head off. Continued right up until recently. Still have one occasionaly when I get really pissed off at work (too many people here smoke, what made it so hard to quit.

Cigars, 20 something...sometime in college. Though true enjoyment from the leaf is a recent thing...before it was just something to smoke.

[Mali]

Gars - i think i was 22 or 23.

[tedski]

Tried cigarettes @ 17 ... :smt078
Tried cigars @ 36 ... been smoking them ever since.
Tried pipes @ 42 ... been smoking them ever since.

[caudio51]

I tried cigars around 15 but started smoking around 22

[MichiganM]

I started smoking cigars just after my 18th birthday...I guess I'm a do gooder.

I've never smoked anything else.

[Texas Cop]

Cigarettes- 9 quit at 19
Dip- 20 quit at 22 started again when I got to Korea
Cigars- 16
Wacky tobaccy- 15 quit at 18

Drew

[cvm4]

Cigars at 19 and no wacky tobaccy here

[AZsteelman]

dipping at 16, quit at 22, then cigars at 45...don't plan on quitting!

[Wasch_24]

Ahhhh, the Newt. I wonder how things are going since he had to give up smoking at the doctors direction.

[cvm4]

Man that sucks Todd...I was wondering what happened to him

[smokem94]

14 - Chewing
45 - Cigars

[derek]

never tried a cigarette.

Started smoking cigars on and off around teh age of 23. Started to smoking seriously around teh age of 27.

[geckoheart]

Chewing/ dipping at 12. Worked barnning tobacco and would get sick every day- the farmer encouraged me to start to get me used to the nicotene in my system. The sickness was nicotene poisioning- continued dipping until I was 31.
Cigarettes at 17- quit them totally by 21.

Cigars- first at 16, homemade while taking out a barn of tobacco- bad idea! Then again in my mid 20's

Pipes at 37.

[rpb67]

18 for cigars and I am 39 now.

[SmoothDraw]

First Cigarrette @ 16 When I started working at Kash 'N Karry. Had to have something to bleed off the stress of the idiots that would stand over and tell me WHAT ORDER THEY WANTED THEY"RE DAGGUM GROCERIES PACKED IN.

First "Cigar" @ 16 Discovered Black 'n Mild and Swisher Sweets...useta inhale 'em and think I was a hard case. Hated the horrid aftertaste. Or Maybe that was the cheap Vodka I drank....never could tell.

First Real Cigar @ 17 A Buddy of mine bought a travel Humidor and offered me a Fuente. Been Smokin' for the last 2 years.

Wacky Tabaccy- Never done this stuff. Never really wanted to. Had no problems with the people that did though (plus they were fun to prank when they were on the Stuff).

[caudio51]

Hey another youngin! You're 19 smoothdraw?

[Rank_Tyro]

I was 20, it as march, and I was in Saudi Arabia.

It was about 14 years later that I started smoking stogies on a regular basis.

:)

[Crazy_Llama]

Hooka at 16 with arabic tobacco
(had a neighbor from Jordan who is basicaly family and he introduced it to the family) great stuff smooth and fruity

Cigars at 18 actualy got 3 from my brother for my birthday couldnt smoke them that weekend because i was going on a youth retreat but got hit them up the next weekend.

Have been smoking them when i have cash since then

and im another youngin only 20 here

[SmoothDraw]

Hey another youngin! You're 19 smoothdraw?


Almost, turn 19 on April 12th. My Memory ain't exact so I figure it's about 2 years or so that I've been smoking Real Cigars.

[turtle]

cigars 25
skoal 27
wacky tabacky never
cigs never
hey i got a late start in life. However, I have been trying to make up for it ever since.:thumbsup:

[robusto_ps]

I was 12 for the funny green stuff 1966.
Try cig's a few times never like it.

First Cigar I was about 16 but never smoke them regularly until I was 35 that 18 years ago.

[ohpus]

started smoking cigs at age 14 and quit at age 26.
started chewing at 16 and quit 25
started smoking cigars at 14 and have no intentions of giving this up!

[texas_stang]

Tried chewing Red Man once at 10 and got sick. Started dipping 1 1/2 cans of Cope per day at 14 and didn't stop until 37. Also smoked cigs at bars for about 6 of those years. Started smoking cigars about 2 years ago. As far a getting laid, my first time was with a girl that was 12 :devilhead but she was 4 years older than me :hysterica :hysterica :hysterica That lasted about a month then i got caught by my parents. I still would sneak over for a little azz until we moved a year later. After that 17 :devil:

[CWS]

Started cigars in my 20's...Garcia y Vega etc. graduated to Macanudo and Partagas. Went to work for Evil Empire (PM) at 40 and since you got free carton of cigs once a week figured a few wouldn't hurt. Got up to two packs a day until around 43 and quit. Got into better cigars, CAO, Padron, Opus and then... habanos...never looked back. Now into the whole variety of NC and CC.

[Doofus]

Tried "Playing grown-up" with snuff when I was around 10.

Used to chew tobacco when fishing when I was in my early 20's.

Flirted with cigars during the boom, but didn't "get it"
Lost my mind on cigars about 4 years ago.

[Saully]

Wacky tobaccy, whenever someone else had it from about 18 to 38.
Cigarettes, had my first at 16 but never liked them.
Cigars, once in a while from 18 to 30, more often from 31-38, never from 39-41, started once in a while at 42 and became a cigar nerd at about 45.

[daniyal]

Cigars 14, cigarettes 18, pipe 28

[unfairtoast]

Wow, very few of us started at the legal age.
Cigars at 18
Never cigarettes never chew

[StogieHokie]

Started smoking cigars at 16 while golfing on the weekends with firends who smoked

[caseabb]

Cigarettes: tried em when I was young, 16 or so.
Cigars: 16 the BM i would drive to was a pipe shop mostly best cigars they had were Troyas and Royal Jamacia (sp). Then graduated to AVO's. Downhill from there.

[PadronMADAddict]

Cigs: around 14 but I picked it back up at 17 but then I quit machine made and went to RYO
wacky:pretty sure I did but I don't remember much of that night and I'd never do it again hopefully
Good old Alc:17 but anymore it's on and off now but the last was related to above
Cigars/pipes:18-present

[nareau]

Actually never had a cigarette, started smoking cigars around 17.

[impluse1977]

Started smoking at about 27. Late Bloomer I guess ;)

[WhiteLightning]

Cigars only for me. First one was on my 31st b-day last year and I have smoked about 16 boxes worth so far. There was a lot of tasting going on. Still is as a matter of fact.

[kyleb]

Real young, somewhere in the 8-10 age.

My uncle smoked often, I would steal the nubs out of his ashtray and smoke them.

I know.. disgusting.

[bballbaby]

SMoked my first cigarette around 14 years old...one of those thin little Capris...stole it form my brother's girlfriend.

First smoke of contraband was around 19 years old

First cigar was a Royal Jamaica around the age of 20/21.

Pulled a 6 month stint in a cigar shop around the age of 23 and took up light cigarette, cigar and pipe smoking. Remained a light smoker of all 3 til last winter when i gave up my 1 to 2 cigarettes a day for cigars. Been going nuts with cigars for 7/8 months now.

[Saully]

BUMP! I found this somewhere and thought it was time for the new guys.

[goin' fer smoke]

I started smoking cigs at 9, cigars at 46, began recently on the cigs again, but today is my first day of not smoking cigs. I feel cigars are better for you if you are going to smoke. jmho.

[GoingPostal]

cigs at 22 cigars at 24, was the best time i ever had in vegas

[Baldanders]

Cigarettes-12 quit 10 yrs ago at 32
funny green stuff-14 quit 10 yrs ago at 32
cigars-drug store crap at 18 handrolled at 22

[BigFoot]

My first cig was when i was about 12, a camel non filter that REALLY f'ed me up, had my first cherry skoal dip at 14 that really f'ed me up:barf:, so that was the 1st and last time, i will still on occasion roll my own cig with some shag tobacco and smoke. First cigar was probably around when I was 22 or so, first beer was at 14 as well as my first J, have stopped the J since about 5 yrs ago due to work reasons, not my own!!!! Still love my beers though...

[Bowhnter]

Cigs regular about 19, quit 6 yrs ago at 42. Smoked maybe 6-10 cigars a year during some of that time.
Early this spring I started smoking a couple cigars a week, was introduced to a couple forums, then the devil site, and well, it's about 10 a week now.

My first CC was about 15 yrs ago, a Monte (4?) and it was the best cigar I have had to date. Close but never duplicated.

[Moro]

First pipe bowl: 15
First cigar: 16

[threebean]

Cigs, never. Cigars, just occasionally for about the last 10 years, but got serious about it 3 yrs or so ago when I got back on two wheels....perfect ending to a perfect day.

[RobustoMoe]

Started smoking Cigs during college, was 18 years at the time. Had my 1st cigar when I graduated from university 2004 was 22 years at the time. I smoked the odd cigar every now and then ever since but became serious last January when the Mrs bought a bunch of cubans as a gift for quitting cigarettes.

[Soundwave13]

I started smoking cigarettes around 13 and didn't stop until June of 07.
Started the decline of illicit substances, general partying & drinking at about the same age & quit in September of 1999. That's right - ten years this month.

Back on point - My first cigar was a Back Woods that I snatched out of my father's hunting jacket when I was about 15 or 16, though I didn't really appreciate a cigar until a friend took me out to a fine Italian dinner one night in 2001? Afterwards he handed me a Cuban RyJ. I loved it.

I occasionally smoked a cigar (1-4 times per month). But after quiting cigarettes, my cigar obsession really took flight...

[kafreeman]

I started smoking cigarettes when I was 15, quit in 2003.

Had my first cigar in December of 2008 for Graduation, and was amazed, went to Corona a week later and had the guy pick me out a bunch of stuff, and he selected Tats, Riquezas, Illusione, Padron 1926, Liga Privada, LFD DL..... and that was it, I never looked back.

[Moro]

I'll add, since I see some extras: fags, I tried at 14 (yes Bob, I know what ye're thinking). Tried just one, loathed it. Never again afterwards. Hookah: 3 years ago, when 17; was interesting but not something I looked forward to, so have had it twice or thrice. Snus: 18 years of age. No like. Pot: 18 years of age. Didn't find it to be anything out of this world, so I haven't tried it since.

[hdroadglide]

too easy, alf. just waaay too easy!

[Moro]

too easy, alf. just waaay too easy!
See? I read yer mind.

[tedp]

Cigs at 12, quit at 18, restarted at 36, quit, restarted, quit, restarted. I have an occasional cig now when drinking. Cigars started in 1990, but got serious a year ago. Whacky Tabaccy twice when I was too drunk to smoke a cigarette!:smile:

[Coolhand]

I started smoking cigars when I hit 18. Sneaked a few of my dad's cigarettes before that, never dug it too much. My uncle (the one that brags about putting sherry into my baby formula so I wouldn't cry - now you know how I got this way) bought me my first pipe at 14. I thought my mom was gonna murder him.

... still have that pipe. It's a Peterson, for chrissakes.

[lafayettelauren]

I started smoking cigars at about 17 or 18 but have only recently smoked them on a regular basis.

[Saully]

Wacky tobaccy, whenever someone else had it from about 18 to 38.
Cigarettes, had my first at 16 but never liked them.
Cigars, once in a while from 18 to 30, more often from 31-38, never from 39-41, started once in a while at 42 and became a cigar nerd at about 45.

And, most recently, Snus at 55. (I really like the stuff. But it's made by cigarette companies. GROSS!)