This Ones On Me: Cigar Party Favors

Throw out the noisemakers, discard the crayons, and replace the Jordan Almonds, there is a new trend emerging in popular culture giving adults a chance to relax a bit and go home with the party bag for once, cigar party favors. What adult would not enjoy a break from tacky party favors that are a step away from eventual drunk drawer death?

Thanks to some clever chap out there, some hosts are now throwing celebrations in which the guests leave with cigars carefully embellished with personalized cigar bands. Even for non-smokers, holding a cigar party favor is the expression of a certain degree of success and pride. It’s nice to have around the house, because one never knows when they will get the chance to show off a finely made cigar, especially thrilling to non-smokers, since the personalized party favor may be the only cigar they ever own. This little gift is the cigar party favor that never stops giving.

Cigar Fillers - What's the Story?

Just what's inside that cigar you just smoked? Many times cigars as favors are handed out, and it would be nice to know something about them. Many cigars, especially some of the more premium brands, use very different grades of tobacco for the filler and the wrapper. "Long filler cigars" signify a much higher quality cigar, using exclusively long leaves of tobacco throughout the cigar. These type of cigars will also employ a third variety of tobacco leaf, a "binder", between the filler leaves and the outer wrapper. This enables expert cigar makers to use very delicate and attractive leaves as an outer wrapper. These are very nearly always blended varieties of cigar tobacco, and are among the most sought after cigars you can imagine. Many times each part of the cigar tobacco leaves will come from different countries.

In most cheap cigars, the filler consists of chopped up tobacco leavings, and it's not uncommon to find a bogus type of cigar "paper", made up entirely of tobacco pulp and used to bind the cigar together.