Smoking is harmful, everyone knows about it today. The states of the world, one by one, are adopting laws that make life difficult for adherents of nicotine addiction. However, in spite of all draconian measures, smokers continue to indulge in their favorite pastime, which, for the sake of justice, should be noted, in our time, is not a terrible vice.
Some are trying to find a way out in cigarettes with a low nicotine content, while others are switching to alternative types of products. Sometimes, not knowing how to smoke a cigar, they buy it, and then they go into a heavy cough.
In Soviet times, almost every tobacco kiosk offered an exotic product against the backdrop of Stolichny and Belomor. Wooden boxes, beautifully pasted over with imitation of foreign banknotes with bright covers and the inscriptions “Monte Cristo” or “Havana”, contained cylindrical dark coffee products familiar to our fellow citizens from films from foreign life.
Capitalists and gangsters, puffing with these “attributes of a sweet life”, cynically talked about the omnipotence of the dollar, traded drugs and weapons, fired pistols and were engaged in other unimportant affairs. It was a pleasure to join the "world of profit and cleanliness" brought to us from the island of freedom - Cuba, a lot - 80 kopecks, and some varieties and more than a ruble. They rarely bought this luxury: firstly, expensive; secondly, too tight; and thirdly, Soviet people did not know how to smoke a cigar. But this is a whole science! It must be selected, carefully cut, check the degree of humidity and evenly ignite.
So, the most important mistake that you make when buying an overseas tobacco delicacy is that many of our cigars smoke in the puff. This cannot be done: they are really too strong and irritate the airways. Smoke from an overseas elite smoker is taken into the mouth, kept in it for five seconds and released. The pleasure consists not in stupefying the brain with nicotine, but in enjoying the aroma of smoldering tobacco leaves tightly twisted and dried according to all the rules of this long-standing art. The bouquet becomes especially exquisite in combination with good alcoholic drinks - cognac, rum, whiskey and some liquors.
The second reason for the low popularity of tobacco products of Cuban, Dominican and other masters in our country is that the process of enjoying them requires a certain amount of time. This cigarette or cigarette can not be let out of the mouth while sitting at the wheel or doing some homework. People who know how to smoke a cigar never combine this activity with any other than a pleasant conversation or listening to good music.
The ritual begins with unpacking or removing from the humidor (this is such a wooden box with a tight-fitting lid) and examining this small masterpiece. The surface of the product should be smooth, velvety, and the color should be pleasant, coffee (sometimes greenish - depending on the variety).
Having admired, you can begin to prepare a cigar for smoking. The mouthpiece part of the expensive varieties is a hemispherical ending. In order for a hole to form a smoke, you need to organize it. Western cowboys should not be imitated, dashingly biting and spitting the tip of a noble product somewhere, they should be carefully cut with a knife if there are no special scissors-tweezers or guillotines. If you are embarrassed to ask a consultant in a tobacco shop how to smoke a cigar (many are embarrassed to look like ignoramuses, although there is nothing shameful in the absence of such skills), it will suffice to remember that the hole should have a diameter of about half a centimeter or a little more.
Now you can’t get real Cuban cigars , and those that are sold are usually twisted by machine and prepared as much as possible, sometimes even equipped with not only holes, but also with small plastic mouthpieces (especially small ones called “panels”). They are usually made in Germany, Indonesia or the USA, and their composition may include flavorings. They are not so strong and adapted to the tastes of the mass consumer. Their use does not require special skills.
A person invited to a rich reception who does not want to admit that he does not know how to smoke a cigar can get into an awkward situation . The best way is to abandon such a refined and expensive treat, referring to the preference for the usual brand of cigarettes or even the absence of this habit. Moreover, smoking is really very harmful ...