Re: Who's been your biggest cigar influence on & offline?
 

Now that made me LOL

Re: Who's been your biggest cigar influence on & offline?
 

Most probably my dad and uncle. I remember how my uncle would come over on Saturdays and share a Toscano with my old man out on the porch. It was like a weekend ritual.

Re: Who's been your biggest cigar influence on & offline?
 

Dball Started Me Down The Dark Slope & Shilala Down The NC!:banger:D:tu

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I've really learned a lot from Rob Ayala and all the people on Friends of Habanos over the years. Rob does some of the best reviews IMO on youtube. I'm soaked up a lot of knowledge about Habanos from them.

As for NCs I lurked here for awhile before joining and I'm enjoying learning about the other side of cigars as I have been a solely CC smoker thus far. There's so many brands of NCs to learn about so having resources like this board really helps.

Re: Who's been your biggest cigar influence on & offline?
 

Easy one, Papajohn. Knows what I like better than I do. Understands cigars and what it is to enjoy a cigar.

Re: Who's been your biggest cigar influence on & offline?
 

I blame Mac for my maduro addiction. Damn enabler.

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Offline: My brother for the first push.

On/offline: Everyone I meet at my first herf "Mega Mob 1". They pretty much shoved me down the "slope".

Re: Who's been your biggest cigar influence on & offline?
 

That puff-puff-pass was EPIC. :)

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Offline-my buddy Ethan. Jerk just moved to Cali on me this last week. He was one of the few guys my age in this backwater town with a brain in head. Killed many many cigars and just a couple of bottles of bourbon, scotch, and whiskey. He never even bothered buying his own humidor. Just kept his stash in mine. Crud. Now I'm gonna have to find a new cigar buddy.

Online-Shilala has been a great influence and friend. Chingas, who doesn't stop here too much anymore, pushed me into the fantastic world of CC's with a couple of Team Death bombs. I still have a couple of those original CC's he sent me. Not sure I'll ever burn that Partagas.

Good thread. Good memories. That's what cigars are for me. A chance to spend an hour or two deepening friendships and making memories. Some of those friends are here.

Re: Who's been your biggest cigar influence on & offline?
 

I have to say both online and offline bluegil (Andy S.) has been my biggest influence. If it weren't for him I wouldn't have gotten into cigars or joined CA. So if he reads this, thanks brother. He's a wealth of information and never tires of answering questions.

Re: Who's been your biggest cigar influence on & offline?
 

Online is easy: Tom of Icehog fame. He needed some DPG blues, I sent them, he returned Cubans and promptly made my marriage slightly less smooth. ;)

Offline: Just too many folks to pick one.