What to do to learn about your favorite hobby

What to do in order to learn about our favorite hobby… smoking…

If you want to really learn about your favorite hobby its important to frequent the same venues other guys and gals do. Bloggs, Forums, News Groups and your local cigar club and pipe club…

Today, because of all the smoking restrictions it has become difficult to congregate at a bar or a restaurant and in many instances, clubs to meet new people who enjoy a good cigar or a bowl of tobacco.

So we, cigar and pipe smokers around the world, have created the means to do that. Lets start with the club… men and women who enjoy a good cigar usually enjoy good wine and good company…goes without saying…lol If you want to meet people who know about cigars, join your local cigar club. These people will at least, once a month, do a cigar tasting and enjoy it at a venue where they can smoke, drink and eat to their leisure.

How? Contact your local smoke shop, in this case us! Benningtons of course. We know who’s who and where. Same thing goes for the pipe club, which in fact there are more pipe clubs than there are cigar clubs. Because of the nature of the pipe, its smoker tends to be more of a listener and ponderer. Therefore there will people talking about the more artistic side of the hobby, the pipe is an “objet d’art”. Many pipe smokers will shell out $1000 or $2000 for one pipe.

For pipe smokers there is more information to gather than there is about cigars. It’s a two part, or two level Intel to find. The Pipe is one; where it was made, who made it, what kind of briar and the finishes and shapes. Then the tobacco; is it English, which there are a huge number of blends, or is it Aromatic, which has an infinite number of blends too. Then there the accoutrement… tampers, scrapers, pouches and so on.

For the cigar smoker we look to find out about the location of the tobaccos, how many in the blend, who produced it and who stores it for sale. This is a biiiig deal in regards to the cigar. If the cigar is improperly stored I, as a customer will go find who does in this case Benningtons! Of course…lol

There are also the on-line locations: Forums, clubs, and people like me who

created a blogg to always keep you informed about our favorite hobby smoking… Like Zino

Davidoff used to say….. “Smoke less but smoke the best”

Long ashes guys…. Till next week