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[Kookla]

What is the difference between flavored and infused cigars?

Is there a difference?

And finally, why would i want to mess with a perfectly delicious natural flavor of a cigar???

[Lostmason]

A.Still waiting for Fran and Olie
B.Haven't a clue.
c.I wouldn't


Smoke long and Plenty

[theHammer56]

I'm interested in finding out, also, if there is a difference between flavored and infused.

As for why - well, perhaps to draw in pipe smokers? It seems like ALL of their tobacco choices are flavored some way.

I have had ONE flavored cigar that I would be willing to buy a box of: C.A.O. Bella Vanilla. Other than that, I've had very little experience that would make me a long-term fan. Swisher Sweets, anyone?

[wabashcr]

I believe flavored cigars are flavored by actually adding flavored substances to the tobacco during the rolling process. Usually they're machine rolled. Whereas infused cigars are just exposed to aromas and flavors during the curing process. I'm far from an expert, so I'm sure someone can chime in with much more detailed info.

[Lynn]

Im not really interested in the flavored ones..maybe once in a while rum or something..its the draw and lung smoke, as long as I dont choke, and out the nose...just want tobacco..

[Lostmason]

Need Kayla to chime in or Trish,they could answer this I expect.

[piperdown]

I believe flavored cigars are flavored by actually adding flavored substances to the tobacco during the rolling process. Usually they're machine rolled. Whereas infused cigars are just exposed to aromas and flavors during the curing process. I'm far from an expert, so I'm sure someone can chime in with much more detailed info.

That ^^^ is pretty much it.

[Mister Moo]

As for why - well, perhaps to draw in pipe smokers? It seems like ALL of their tobacco choices are flavored some way.

Little known in the cigar community, there are roving gangs of pipe-ninjas who are responsible for for throwing acid on Acid cigars to stem the flow of once trustworthy pipers to the moral turpitude of smoking infused cigars. We'd rather they just went over to mango-coconut blunts.

Another secretive (and heretofore undisclosed) side of pipers is this: they have, by and large, abandoned cigars of all types due to cost, mechnical unreliability, failure of natural tobacco flavor range and last, but not least, the tragic inability of being able to light a cigar, smoke what you want, let it go out and come back to it whenever you want without flavor failure. In fact, pipes postponed often taste better when relit an hour or more after they have gone out and, believe it or not there is a name fr that process abbreviated as DGT.

Pipers, honestly, are happy to see the failed amongst them slip over to flavored OR infused cigars. We are, however, always worried about flavored-cigar pod-people coming over to pipes. No telling what havoc will come with them. We have our eyes on you the Hammer56. Beware the pipe-ninjas and the black helicopters - you are on the RADAR.