What tastes better Cigar or Pipe

[sfumato1002]

Hello everyone! My name in michael and I'm new to this forum. I have a question for those people that have tried the pipe and cigars.

Im kind of new to both. I have been a cigarette smoker for 10 years but quit 4 years ago. I have recently wanted to smoke again but not cigarettes, I really dislike cigarettes.

So I tried cigars for the first time about a two months a go. I bought some Rafael Gonzalez M. cuban cigars at my local smoke shop. They were amazing. I never smoked cigars before and it was better than I thought it would be. I do not inhale, I just like to savour and taste.

Anyway, soon I found out that cigars don't taste as good if they dry. I left my cigars in a carton box. After a couple weeks the cigars did not have the rich taste as before. So searching online, I became more knowledgable about cigars and now know that cigars need to be put in humidors to keep them fresh. But humidors can be expensavice! So before I comitted to buying a humidor I decided to try pipes to see if I liked them. I wanted a good pipe and bought me a peterson pipe that costed me $80! I could of got a humidor for that price but was really curious about the pipe. I also bought me some virginal blend tobacco and aromatic tobacco.

Okay, I've been smoking the pipe for about a week now and I have to say, Im really disapointed. I don't know if it's just me, but I remember those cigars I smoked, which weren't really that expensive compared to other brands like monte cristos or cohibas which i've never tried but tasted really good. Even when they were dry, they tasted better than pipe tobacco.

Anyway, the pipe does not have that rich taste I got from cigars. I miss that. The tobacco in the cigars was sooo good. I wish to give the pipe longer time, but I just had a bowl and it was not as enjoyable as when I smoked the cigars. Also, after smoking, the pipe leaves me with a bad breath, but the cigars left a good taste in my mouth, I didn't even want to brush my teeth!

Anyway, I know the pipe is been around for a long time. And I really wish I liked it, and I know there are a lot of people that really enjoy the pipe, and I agree, its fun to hold it, and light it and just smoke it, but the taste of a cigar is much better I think. Do others feel the same? Are cigars just better tasting than pipe tobacco?

[wasch_24]

Personally I think the two are too different for one to be labeled better than the other. I like them both equally for different reasons.

Welcome to FoH BTW.

[sfumato1002]

» Personally I think the two are too different for one to be labeled better

» than the other. I like them both equally for different reasons.

»

» Welcome to FoH BTW.

Thanks for the reply! you know. I think you are right. Im new to both and was comparing them wrongly. I do enjoy the pipe. smoking it and the aroma is amazing and very relaxing. I still think cigars taste better, but the pipe smells really good and I do enjoy that a lot! Thanks again for the reply!

[stogies&hoagies]

» Personally I think the two are too different for one to be labeled better

» than the other. I like them both equally for different reasons.

»

» Welcome to FoH BTW.

Yup, I agree. I don't smoke pipes and have never smoked cigarettes. I do know quite a few folks who enjoy pipes and cigars. Like Todd says, depends what they are in mood for at the moment.

Pipe tobacco comes in a wide variety of "flavors". Cigars do also, but on a more subtle level.

[i_m_bug]

Well personally i take both Cigar and Pipe. In some wyas or another, i catually prefer Cigar over pipe.

But then looking in another point of view, I just feel they complement each other in some ways.

Cigar flavours varies between brand and types. You can varies Pipes flavour to the one you like too.

Cigars are more "fixed" in the sense the flavour profle is locked in when its being constructed. Which means you get to choose the cigar that suits your mood at that particular point of time

Pipes you get to choose the tobacco and the quantity ie the time you will wan to spend on it. Typically it last around 20-30 mins for a full pipe.

Cigar is an "occasion" thingy for me. You light it when you like to have the quality time to enjoy.

Pipe, you light it anytime you need it

:-D

[i_m_bug]

Hi,

Try this link to find out more about pipes

http://www.pipes.org/

[Mel]

Cigars are the truly natural way to enjoy tobacco. No additives, paper or accesories. Nothin but the mother earth. I do not smoke flavored cigars as they are an adultery of the real thing. I do like the smell of pipe tobacco but object to all the coloring and flavorings added.

Just me and I'm weird.

[wasch_24]

» Cigars are the truly natural way to enjoy tobacco. No additives, paper or

» accesories. Nothin but the mother earth. I do not smoke flavored cigars as

» they are an adultery of the real thing. I do like the smell of pipe tobacco

» but object to all the coloring and flavorings added.

»

» Just me and I'm weird.

Only specific blends have additives, flavorings, or "casings"...most is just raw 'baccy blended together.

[billyburg]

» Cigars are the truly natural way to enjoy tobacco. No additives, paper or

» accesories. Nothin but the mother earth. I do not smoke flavored cigars as

» they are an adultery of the real thing. I do like the smell of pipe tobacco

» but object to all the coloring and flavorings added.

»

»Couldn't agee any more with Mel's theory. Cigars are the true tobacco au naturale!

[SeanGAR]

I smoke cigars and pipes. I usually reserve pipes for back porch smoking during the summer. I smoke cigars when I'm driving or out and about and find the pipe more of a hassle. They are different ... I don't smoke anything flavored ... with the exception of the odd ******. I like having the choice of smoking either. :-P

[El Presidente]

Welcome to the forum Michael!

I am not a pipe smoker. It is more a soiltary pursuit where as I find Cigars to be more readily useable for the type of life I enjoy.

Hard to throw 5 pipes around with mates. Fishing with a pipe would be a pain in the ass

[kab55]

Welcome to FOH. I stick to cigars only, haver never smoked a pipe (my father did, however) and won't touch cigs.

[raney]

I just acquired my first pipe, and a few smaples from a friend of mine who also loves habanos. While I have tried pipe tobacco in the distant past, the experience I had with this batch was as different as White Owls are from a Mag 46.

Very different than cigars, and to me a much more relaxed, milder experience - but once I got over comparing it to a good cigar, I found that I really enjoyed it. I resist the either/or question (though if it came down to it, I'd have to stick with the cigars)

One thing is for sure: either a good pipe or cigar will make cigarettes taste like swallowing chum.

[korryp]

Welcome Aboard n:waving:

I personally like cigars over pipes. I have a buddy that smokes a pipe and sometimes it smells funky.

[Tampa1257]

Maybe I should take up a pipe, that way I could finish off the left over tobacco from my Habanos ;-)

[cobra]

It seems like pipe smoking is a dying habbit. The only guy's I ever see smoking pipes work in a tobacco shop or a fly shop. Anybody see it making a cigar like comeback?

[Taino]

To me also they are two different things. I like cigars better but also enjoy the pipe every once in a while specially when fishing (BTW Prez the pipe behaves much better than cigars under the rain).

To me it’s been much easier to find cigars I like than pipe tobacco, I found a mixture I really like many years ago in a pipe shop in Portland and since then been smoking the same stuff.

PLEASE DON’T TRY CUBAN PICADURA FOR PIPIES!!!! I thought once it could be nearly good to CC but no, It’s horrible.

[Cam]

pipe and cigars equally. I have a dunhill pipe though ( a dragon LE ) and am disappointed, the stem hole was not drilled for smoking, rather for display, the price should have been a deterrent in the first place.

[Freefallguy]

Why not combine the two?

An account of Che Guevara’s socialist bent on dispersing tobacco among his comrades in Belgian Congo…

"One of his subordinates reports that Che once gave him a 40-centimeter cigar and recommended that he divide it into 40 equal pieces to be smoked in a pipe, so it would last for 40 days. After that time, Che told him, he was authorized to come back for another." CA SEP/OCT '97

[KWG116]

I smoke both pipes and cigars, and I smoke them for different reasons. There are cigar leaf pipe tobaccos like Robert Lewis 123 and Fox's Bankers. They are both English blends (Latakia) with a small amount of cigar leaf. They are good, but it is nothing like you would think. The one blend that, IMHO is the best cigar leaf blend, Schurchs Mogano. It is available through Switzerland. If anyone ever gets a chance to try it, you should. Rumour has it that they use cuban cigar leaf. It is amazing, creamy, very smooth. I can not really describe it, it is that good. But again, it is not like smoking a cigar in a pipe.Also, there is a Comptons blend that has cigar leaf (rumoured to have cuban R&J cigar tobacco) .

Non cigar blends I would recommend. McClelland's Grand Oriental Series (Yenice Agonya and Black Sea Sokhum) These are great tobaccos. Very exotic because of the oriental tobacco.Sweet, spicy with a hint of dark chocolate. they are very unique.

One other thing, watch how you pack the pipe, too loose and it tastes flat, too tight and it goes out all the time. And it burns hot, turning the smoke into steam (ie tongue bite)

I hope this helps, and if you need any other help feel free to email me.

Thank you