Slightly ghoulish....your end of days cigar?

[El Presidente]

 

Slightly ghoulish.....your end of days cigar? 🙏

 

The thought was triggered after reading the story below on the last legal execution by hanging in Tucson, 1908. I was intrigued that the convicted Hawkins got to smoke a cigar before the hanging. 

 

Let's lighten the mood slightly.  You aren't about to be executed.  Just assume that tomorrow an asteroid will take  us all out. 

Feel bettter? 

You have done all you can do. (that would be nothing). 

You walk to your humidor. 

What are you pulling to smoke this one last time? 

 

 

 

E.W. Hawkins was hanged on August 14, 1908 for the murder of Albert Leonhardt on December 23, 1907. The photograph is replete with all of the theatricality of these ghoulish spectacles, its precedent hearkening all the way back to Tyburn‘s Tree in the heyday of public execution as popular entertainment in England. The representatives of law and order, the executioner and the priest, vie for attention and celebrate Hawkins‘ alleged conversion at the noose. Hawkins, described on scene as being “cool as a cucumber“ approaches his fate like Jack Sheppard, smokes his last cigar and addresses the crowd in a fresh suit. The photograph. published by Smith Sporting Goods Co., functions almost like baseball cards with the team members comprising a rogues gallery of celebrity criminals. Something didn‘t go according to plan on August 14, however. Hawkins‘ neck didn‘t break in the hanging, so the assembled spectators witnessed a horrific death struggle. This would be the last public execution by hanging in the city of Tucson.

[zacca]

The last 2 CoRos I have from 2003.

Taped together if we’re abiding by the “1 cigar” rule.

[MrBirdman]

Probably one of my El Laguito Siglo III - one of my favorites and a cigar I associate with a lot of good things (bad things too) in my private life, including my first FOH zoom where I met Rob and several others here whom I’d come to know. Closest to a stroll down memory lane I can get with a cigar. 

One bonus wouldn’t be just what I smoke but where, as in anywhere the hell I want! 

[BrightonCorgi]

Cuaba Diadema or Portmann Robusto. Have one left of each. Been waiting for a good reason to smoke either one.

[Cigar Surgeon]

Well if they're hanging me I guess I'll break out the Meglaphobia because I'm sure I could get 16-20 hours smoking out of it.

But if I'm smoking for me it's going to be the La Escepcion 2011 Italia Regional or the La Aurora 100 Anos 2004.

[JDoughty]

Forget any cigars, I'm spending all the time I can with my loved ones. If for whatever reason this was not an option and we must play this game by the rules, my pre embargo stuff is going up in flames. I have one 1960 Cuban Davidoff left and I'm burning it. 

[NYGuido]

12 minutes ago, JDoughty said:

Forget any cigars, I'm spending all the time I can with my loved ones. 

Exactly this. If I absolutely HAVE TO pick, and presuming the cigar would taste like the best version of itself, one of my 2019 Sir Winstons or the one Cohiba Talisman 2017 LE I have.

[pohlmad]

Cohiba Lancero 2019

[Chibearsv]

Whatever Churchill, DC, or 109 that looks good to me that day. Who am I kidding, Esplendido!

[ViscountDick]

As many Mag 46 and Connies as I can

[ha_banos]

Ooh. Start with a Magnum 48. It's only a tiddler, so would have time to grab a big stick. Haven't had an Esplendido in ages...

[benfica_77]

Punch DC from 87 followed by a Siglo VI. Would go all out. Then a steak and a marathon session with the Mrs. 

[Ford2112]

I am a hedonistic bastard. 5 Punch DCs in a row!

[Li Bai]

Well I was just given a Sir Winston '97 but I could also go with a Diplo Bushido.🤔

[Gubbins]

I have a Monte 1 from my year and month of birth. I think that would be quite fitting. Shared the same time on this mortal coil. A nice bit of company as we meet our demise. After all what better acquaintance for a moment of this magnitude than a handful of dried leaves?

[Lucas Buck]

My last Dunhill Cabinetta. 

[JDoughty]

1 minute ago, Lucas Buck said:

My last Dunhill Cabinetta. 

Can you post a pic? I have a bunch of unbanded old Dunhills with an illegible label and I vaguely recall they were Cabinettas. 

[NYGuido]

1 hour ago, Gubbins said:

I have a Monte 1 from my year and month of birth.

This is so cool. I’ve got a box of Edmundos from my son’s birth month. Only smoked 1 or 2 so far. Maybe I’ll just smoke one every year on his birthday and let him start smoking them with me some day.

[Gubbins]

15 minutes ago, NYGuido said:

This is so cool. I’ve got a box of Edmundos from my son’s birth month. Only smoked 1 or 2 so far. Maybe I’ll just smoke one every year on his birthday and let him start smoking them with me some day.

I think that’s just as good. Probably means more if it’s your son. The problem now is managing to hang onto them until that time!

I have a box of Coloniales, which turns out has the same date as my nephews birth, so I have a slight guilt churning my way through those.

[SUP8333]

The last Cuban Davidoff No.1 I have left.

[El Hoze]

Not necessarily the exact question, but my father-in-law, who turned me onto cigars and was a larger-than-life guy, came down with cancer in around 2015 and quit drinking/smoking (he stepped up the gambling though to compensate). His favorite cigars were Cohiba Lanceros and he loved a good rum. I kept an absolute banger box of 2008 Lanceros and a bottle of English Harbour 1981 (25 year) Rum set aside just in case he ever asked me for one. He didn’t. That bottle of rum is long gone but I still have probably 12 of that box of Lanceros. I smoke them generally on special occasions. 

For me, probably a Siglo VI GR. 

[Lucas Buck]

On 10/30/2025 at 7:14 AM, JDoughty said:

Can you post a pic? I have a bunch of unbanded old Dunhills with an illegible label and I vaguely recall they were Cabinettas. 

They are a classic Cuban Robustos - 4 7/8 X 50.

[JY0]

RA Gigantes with age.

[Perla]

For me LGC MdO No. 2 or LGC Tainos of ERDM Tainos or whatever I get first in my fingers and stuff it into my pockets. Climb up the hill, open a few bottles of champagne or good wine ( no water - because fish are p**ing in there) and let the sunset happen. 

Oh damn‘ I forgot the food 😂😂😂

[LOMTL]

Easy one for me, Partagas Lusitania.