I have a question for all cigar.com members who have wifes and girlfriends. How many of you out there have significant others who hate you smoking cigars or try to get you to stop smoking cigars?

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I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
Ron White

My girlfriend is ok with me smoking cigars (she did buy me my first humidor) but she hates the smell of my breath after I get done smoking, says that it smells like dog $***.

she hates that i smoke cigars. She hates it more that i smoke em with friends. She hates it even more that i smoke em with my Dad. She hates it EVEN MORE that i smoke em with HER Dad.

i smoke outside only. Rare occasions around her.

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My wife luvs the smell of cigars, trying to get her started and get away from those damned cigarettes.....

My wife doesn't mind that I smoke cigars. Usually she will take a few puffs if she's outside with me.

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“The end of a good smoke is a little saddening. In some regard, it’s a bit like losing a best friend who had time to sit and listen.”

+1 to what kuz and mccloud said. She doesn't say anything but I know the smell bothers her. I thought cigar smelled bad at one time so I understand completely. I think she's also worried about my health but I remind her that the nicotine intake is different than cigarettes and I smoke infrequently. Plus, it's the only vice I have and she knows it could be a lot worse.

Every once and while she'll have a swisher sweet when we're partying with folks, but that's it.

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My wife is pretty good...there are rules though. No smoking in the house and no smoking in vehicles (although I do break that one in the winter with the windows down and the cigar held out the window). She did make a comment about lighting up a second cigar on the golf course one time and I told her if she said that again it would be the last time she golfed with me!

My girlfriend doesn't really mind that I smoke. What she does mind is the fact that my collection almost takes up half of my room! Now every time I make a purchase, I hide it from her. I come back at her with "why do you have so many shoes?"....but I don't know if that was the smartest thing to say.

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My wife luvs the smell of cigars, trying to get her started and get away from those damned cigarettes.....

I always find it amusing when people that smoke cigarettes get turned off by cigars. I smoked cigarettes for two years on and off in my teens and honestly, I would never go back. Cigars actually taste like something other than chemicals. Sure they might seem expensive, but a lot of smokers could buy a decent premium or two per day with the money they blow on cigarettes.

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My wife often buys me cigars as gifts because she knows I enjoy them. I rarely smoke them in her presence but sometimes when I come in after having one she will ask "were you smoking a cigar" that's my hint to hit the shower and toothbrush. She never tried to stop me or outright complain, I quess as long as it does not intrude on her it's okay. Never in the house or her car. Works for me.

My girlfriend doesn't mind until I have those 3 cigar days. It takes up a lot of my time on those days which I enjoy but she doesn't since she's not participating.

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'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan

My wife doens't really mind. She may make a commnet here or there; but nothing big. I have cut back on my spending a lot. Plus she has nothing on me in the spending department. I would have a lot more cigars if I spent what she does in a month on cigarettes on my cigar collection. She probably spends 20 bucks a week: multiply that by 4 and you get 80 vbucks a month. I usually only spend 80 bucks every couple of months. I don't buy as much as I used to.

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Smoke em if you got em.

Same here. I think my wife gets more mad about the cost of the cigars than the actual smoking.  Shell smoke a cigar now and then and lets me smoke every night, but when she sees those beautiful boxes being delivered at the door I get the Spanish inquisition  on spending.

My entrance into the cigar smoking world was touch and go. I have only been married for 9 months now, and I wasn't sure what to expect when I started smoking 3 months ago. That being said, I'd smoke one when I went to a bar after a hockey game to sort of break her into the scene. Then I'd smoke one once in a while outside while working in the garage. She didn't seem to mind. Now I smoke whenever I feel like it, OUTSIDE, of course. But no complaints as of yet.

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Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

there are some advantages to being a bachelor. I live alone so no one tells me what to do, cept for my landlord. she wont let me smoke on the balcony. Rules are rules so I dont smoke here, I just go to the park.

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"...And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear." -Haggai 2:5