No idea. I smoked a few dozen cheapos in high-school. I smoked a few thousand more in college (probably a good 10% of them had tobacco in them!) and then my Junior year, the head of the department broke out a box of Nat Sherman Hobarts (Nat's grandson went to Hobart, where I did my undergrad). They were my first real cigar, and I was sold. I couldn't afford decent cigars, so I smoked maybe one a month. Then, during my first job after undergrad, my boss gave me a RyJ ISOM in cedar (can't remember which, one of the larger cedros), and I was beyond sold...I was hooked.