What was your first cigar?

[Ilroy]

Some cheap store bought 5 pack cigars...don't even remember what brand. Not memorable at all.
Got into good cigars many years later, but just once in awhile til late last year when I had one or two a day while vacationing in Cayman.

[BryGuySC]

CAO America Robusto.
Found it in the parking lot outside of a local B&M in the middle of the night. Thought, "What the heck. Might as well!" and smoked that sucker when I got home.

The first cigar that got me hooked (and got me sick) was Arturo Fuente Don Carlos #2.

[NeverBend]

It was 1965, I was 11.

Jose Edmundo. Looked large but was probably a corona, ~5 x 44-rg as a guess. Made in Jamaica and was pricey at 70c, (Fuente Curly Head was 7/$1.00). I'll always remember the flavor, some of the molasses sweetness to be expected from Jamaica with a mild cross of Honduran, of the period, like Punch. The owner of the store selected it for me.

[bluenoser]

Used to smoke the colts/captain blacks but never really considered them a "Cigar", first real cigar was a century Sam I bought at the grocery store I worked at. They were sitting in an open bucket covered in dust on the cigarette shelf for a few years un humidified. Worst 5 minutes of my life. Amazed I ever came back to cigars.

[Tombstone]

CAO America Robusto.
Found it in the parking lot outside of a local B&M in the middle of the night. Thought, "What the heck. Might as well!" and smoked that sucker when I got home.

The first cigar that got me hooked (and got me sick) was Arturo Fuente Don Carlos #2.

That's my kind of bum. Parking lot stogie for the win.

[AlanS]

CAO America Robusto.
Found it in the parking lot outside of a local B&M in the middle of the night. Thought, "What the heck. Might as well!" and smoked that sucker when I got home.

The first cigar that got me hooked (and got me sick) was Arturo Fuente Don Carlos #2.

Ditto on the Don Carlos, first one turned me all kinds of green!

[BryGuySC]

That's my kind of bum. Parking lot stogie for the win.

Just to be clear, it was unsmoked and still in the cellophane!

[allusred]

Used to smoke the colts/captain blacks but never really considered them a "Cigar", first real cigar was a century Sam I bought at the grocery store I worked at. They were sitting in an open bucket covered in dust on the cigarette shelf for a few years un humidified. Worst 5 minutes of my life. Amazed I ever came back to cigars.

Once you start with quality like that well aged "Century Sam" you will be hooked. As you were.

[allusred]

Just to be clear, it was unsmoked and still in the cellophane!

That admission may well cost you the top spot.

[Tombstone]

Just to be clear, it was unsmoked and still in the cellophane!

Sure it was... what ever you say buddy.