How to use Cedar Strips to Light a Cigar

Lighting a cigar correctly is vital to ensuring the bestno taste at all. Either way, no one seems to find the
smoking experience. There are numerous stepsexperience unpleasant in any regard. The cedar is
involved in doing so and, oftentimes, smokers haveused to light the cigar as would be any other
as much of a preference in regards to lighting theirimplement, the cigar is rotated, the smoker puffs until
cigar as they do toward which types of cigars theyan even and hot cherry is generated.
prefer. Cedar strips are one of the less-commonIf a smoker who objects to any chemicals contacting
ways that smokers light-up and they offer antheir 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 theof 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 regulartwo separate devices to get their cigar smoking.
lighter while others prefer to keep the process asCedar strips offer something different for one's
back-to-basics as possible and to use a match to setcigar-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 vibranthigh-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 bestrips can be a nice addition to the smoking ritual.
able to taste the cedar a bit while others say there is