Do all cigars taste like **** after relighting?

Originally Posted by shilala

A friend of mine taught me to purge my cigar BEFORE I let it go out.
Now, every time I set my cigar down I blow all the smoke from it before I set it down, just in case it goes out and I can't get back to it for some reason.
I can pick it up the next day and relight it and it tastes just like it did before it went out. I've picked them up days later when I left them in the shed, and they're fine.
It's one of the greatest cigar tricks I've ever learned, and it was a kid that taught me cause he used to do it with his cigarettes.
It's saved a lot of good cigars that would have been wasted.

Been doing this for years as I smoke mostly churchill size cigars. Every once in awhile I will be interrupted and have to put the cigar down but before I do I will purge a couple of times and then make a clean cut of the burnt end about a 3/4 of an inch and I'm good to go after that. Will pick it up the next day without any appreciable degredation of the quality of the cigar.