How to Handle a Hand Rolled Cigar

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Matthew Driggers and we're here at Cigar Castle in Tampa, Florida and on behalf of Expert Village this is how to hand roll cigars smoking tips and techniques. Ok, the next thing I want to talk about is respecting the cigar, that's the second principle I mentioned. When you hold the cigar there's two ways to smoke, to hold it. The most popular way you'll see is held between the index finger and the middle finger kind of braced with the thumb down here. Kind of hold it like a pencil or a pen and you just hold it like this when you're relaxing. And that's how you bring it up to your mouth to puff on it like so. The a more old fashioned way of holding it where you use two fingers and put in, you know, put it in between your middle finger and your ring finger. You kind of hold it like this kind of like chop sticks but you won't see many people doing that. Sometimes they'll hold it like this when they're relaxing but most of the time you'll see it between their first two fingers."