My cigar just burst into flames

[Professor Twain]

Tonight while smoking a very nice 99 Partagas 898 Varnished, the cigar burst into flames with about 2 inches left in it! There was nothing unusual in the burn of this cigar to that point. I heard a slight popping sound, the cigar flamed up for a couple of seconds, and then returned to normal.

Anyone else ever had this happen? Was this a bad joke from the roller or perhaps an old, dried up stem?

[kjellfrick]

I also hear a popping sound in the cigars sometimes, but I always imagined it was tobacco beetles popping....:-D

You must have fired up a whole nest of them!

[genevapics]

You may want to stop dipping your cigars in that good old Kentucky Bourbon...:-D Can't say I have ever had that happen to me.

[shrink]

Was this a bad joke from the roller or perhaps an old, dried up stem?

[JMH]

Sorry, that cigar was meant for fidel.

Regards,

CIA

[strayvector]

Maybe you torched a hatched tabacco worm.

[Mel]

» Maybe you torched a hatched tabacco worm.

LOL Bet that scared the **** outta ya.

[GTS21]

Same thing happened to me with an 80s Davidoff tubo. Scary as hell. :-(

[Professor Twain]

I don't think it was a worm or a beetle. The ash was short at that point and I looked immediately, no shell or remnant from a critter. Just a very white patch in the otherwise grey ash.

[tandblov]

» I don't think it was a worm or a beetle. The ash was short at that point

» and I looked immediately, no shell or remnant from a critter. Just a very

» white patch in the otherwise grey ash.

In my college days, occasionally, while smoking other leaf (wink), we would run into a seed that would pop and cause a flame up.

Perhaps you ran into some type of foreign seed material that made it into the cigar.

[xibbumbero]

» Tonight while smoking a very nice 99 Partagas 898 Varnished, the cigar

» burst into flames with about 2 inches left in it! There was nothing

» unusual in the burn of this cigar to that point. I heard a slight popping

» sound, the cigar flamed up for a couple of seconds, and then returned to

» normal.

»

» Anyone else ever had this happen? Was this a bad joke from the roller or

» perhaps an old, dried up stem?

Coulda been a buncha beetles farted at the same time. X:surprised:

[Freefallguy]

» white patch in the otherwise grey ash.

Pelican ****

[El Presidente]

I haven't experienced this as yet. You would have to asssume you have hit a highly combustible spot of tobacco based on a dry stem and some dry leaf.

I hope it doesn't happen while I am driving:lookaround:

[Cubatabaco]

» I haven't experienced this as yet. You would have to asssume you have hit a

» highly combustible spot of tobacco based on a dry stem and some dry leaf.

»

Very much agreed. Certainly a dry spot in the cigar.

[Gryphon]

» I haven't experienced this as yet. You would have to asssume you have hit a

» highly combustible spot of tobacco based on a dry stem and some dry leaf.

»

» I hope it doesn't happen while I am driving:lookaround:

Another warning lable to stick on the box: Don't Drive and Smoke....

[Freefallguy]

» Anyone else ever had this happen?

Yes