What's the name of a cheap, fat cigar?

[Jstpssng]

Not so fondly remember when I was a kid, light up one of those long seed pods from a Catalpa (cigar tree). Man was that wicked. Got a heck of a buzz from it, think I puked afterwards. Kids do stupid things when parents aren't watching...

We smoked pine needles... once. You're right, it's amazing the stupid things we did when our parents thought they were looking.

 

[JethroB]

We tried rolling our own right of of the barn once, I think we used notebook paper. Farmer we worked for caught on and laughed. I spent 5 full summers in the tobacco fields. Ages 12-16.

 

[tallyho8]

Even though I smoked cigarettes for 20 years from 1966 to 1986, I never smoked cigars. We had boxes of cigar boxes given to us when I was a kid from a relative who worked at Walgreens selling them. These were nifty boxes good for storing anything and lasted forever. I still have quite a few of them. Not smoking cigars, I never noticed the prices but all the old boxes I had usually had 5, 6 or 7 cents on them.

When I went to Cuba couple of years ago I told all my friends I would bring them back some authentic Cuban cigars. Imagine my surprise when I got to Cuba and found that the cheapest real Cuban cigars they had were $7 each. (Probably tourist price) It had me wishing I had less friends who smoked and more who liked T-shirts as I counted out the roll of $20 bills to pay for them.