When it comes to tobacco, smokers—sans the snowman and the Sherlock Holmes’ of the world—typically choose cigarettes or cigars. This results in a tobacco war between the two choices: in a scene straight out of West Side Story, one group claims cigarettes are better and one group counters, declaring the cigar’s superiority. Ashes fly, cigars cry on one another’s shoulders, cigarettes filter out, and items get burned.
To the cigar lover, the items that get burned are cigarettes. Cigar lovers believe their cigars are just better. True cigar lovers typically look at cigarettes with a sense of disdain. To them, a lover of tobacco who smokes a cigarette is like a lover of fine food eating things made in an Easy Bake Oven. Some cigarette lovers may disagree, believing that cigarettes are the best choice of smoke, but other cigarette lovers may simply be intimidated by cigars - scared of a Henry Clay or a La Aurora, they find comfort in a Benson and, of course, a Hedges.
It’s hard to blame these people. Cigars can appear scary, like a stick of tobacco lurking in a bedroom closet, waiting for night to fall. Yet, like so many things, the fear of cigars is unwarranted. People can crush cigars in an ashtray, on a sidewalk, or on a garbage can. For this reason, cigars should be more afraid of people than people are of them.
Once cigars are welcomed into the hearts of tobacco lovers, they will usually find they are not intimidating and are just the opposite. Besides providing luxury, cigars offer a handful of other satisfying avenues, avenues that cigarettes get lost going down. It is because of this that we will now list the top five reasons cigars are better than cigarettes.
1. The Length: Yes, size matters, at least when it comes to tobacco, but size, for the purpose of this argument, isn’t about the physical length of tobacco, it’s about how long it lasts. Cigarettes are short-lived. People often smoke them in ten or fifteen minutes. Cigars, however, last much longer. Smoking is pleasurable and that pleasure is greatly extended when a cigar is ignited.
2. The Sophistication: Sure, cigarettes sometimes look sophisticated, particularly when people smoke them with a cigarette holder ala Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but most of the time, cigars are much more synonymous with sophistication than cigarettes, at least in America. Simply smoking a cigar garners a sense of sophistication, while smoking a cigarette usually requires a prop: a cigarette holder, a top hat, or a monocle.
Article comments
1 - Joe Harris
I smoke pipes daily and I'm tired of being likened to Sherlock Holmes.
Cigars are great and, for obvious reasons, this is a non-story.
2 - Scott Monty
Believe it or not, Sherlock Holmes's pipe habits were matched or exceeded by his consumption of cigarettes and cigars.
3 - cigarfan
What kind of cigarette lasts 15 minutes? I can barely make a petite corona last that long.
One other important difference: cigarette tobacco is chemically processed (and tastes like it) while cigar tobacco is fermented and aged naturally. If you put a lit cigar down it will go out. A cigarette will burn to the filter all on its own due to the added chemicals.
4 - Phillip Winn
Not even a fair fight. Cigars vs Pipes would be more interesting. I can think of points in favor of each, there. :-)
5 - indigo
:)) both are good... But I smoke cigarettes...
6 - Daniel
I was just in Paris and I saw a bunch of smoking cafes, called tabac. Inside these cafes you can see a lot of people smoking cigarettes (no one was smoking cigars when I went in). There is a counter where they sell different brands of cigarettes, filters, papers, rolling tobacco. This is a thing you did not mention on your report, cigarrette smokers can roll their own, any size or shape they want. They can use special papers with scent or even transparent.
I am not a fan of either cigars or cigarettes, and from my smoking experience I can assure you that cannabis is better than both of them. There are tons of different types of strains, each one with different smell, flavor, effect, etc. There´s also hashish for those who like to mix with tobacco. And if you are in the mood for a cigar you can just roll a blunt :-).
7 - Jon Kobeck
I quit cigs about 5 years ago and went to cigars. While I still miss cigs, I feel MUCH healthier and breath better on Cigars.
8 - simon c
cigars are better by far my friend smokes ciggies i never see him without one my cigars all the way but i havnt had one for three days it seem you dont get addikted to cigars like you do to ciggies dont know why prolly because there more natural
9 - simon c
btw missing cigars for three days is pretty good seeing i was on about 9-10 a day lol
10 - Jordan Richardson
"it seem you dont get addikted to cigars like you do to ciggies dont know why prolly because there more natural"
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"btw missing cigars for three days is pretty good seeing i was on about 9-10 a day lol"
So you don't think you can get addicted to cigars, huh?
:)