| Lighting a cigar correctly is vital to ensuring the best | | | | no taste at all. Either way, no one seems to find the |
| smoking experience. There are numerous steps | | | | experience unpleasant in any regard. The cedar is |
| involved in doing so and, oftentimes, smokers have | | | | used to light the cigar as would be any other |
| as much of a preference in regards to lighting their | | | | implement, the cigar is rotated, the smoker puffs until |
| cigar as they do toward which types of cigars they | | | | an even and hot cherry is generated. |
| prefer. Cedar strips are one of the less-common | | | | If a smoker who objects to any chemicals contacting |
| ways that smokers light-up and they offer an | | | | their tobacco is not at home, the natural choice is a |
| interesting twist on enjoying one's smoke. | | | | butane torch lighter which, like a cedar strip, imparts |
| The process starts, of course, with the cigar cutter. | | | | no taste to the tobacco owing to the high efficiency |
| Remember to trim the cigar properly to ensure the | | | | of its burning. This is, of course, also enormously |
| best draw. How the cedar is lit is up to the smoker. | | | | more convenient in that the smoker need not light |
| Some smokers prefer to light the strip with a regular | | | | two separate devices to get their cigar smoking. |
| lighter while others prefer to keep the process as | | | | Cedar strips offer something different for one's |
| back-to-basics as possible and to use a match to set | | | | cigar-smoking experience. The smell of burning cedar |
| the strip aflame. | | | | being immediately followed by the smell of |
| Cedar burns quickly and hot and provides a vibrant | | | | high-quality, burning tobacco is really quite pleasant. If |
| flame for lighting the actual cigar. Some smokers, | | | | one is truly looking for a gourmet experience, cedar |
| depending on their sensitivity to taste, claim to be | | | | strips can be a nice addition to the smoking ritual. |
| able to taste the cedar a bit while others say there is | | | | |