What is the proper way to light a cigar?

Drawing the flame into a cigar with a torch lighter is much more difficult than using a soft flame or matches. This technique was obviously created years before anyone thought up these crazy high tech lighters. Lighting your cigar with 1200 degrees of laser like flame is a different animal.

I use my Blazer lighter at times and try to keep the flame as far away from the cigar as I can, but it does touch it at times. The more wind proof the lighter is, the harder it is to pull the flame into the cigar.
 
I use a soft flame for everything but lighting a cigar in the wind.
On the golf course, I use a torch.
For the exact reasons stated above.
 
I use a soft flame as well. It seems to give me less of a chemical build-up taste. That's just this noob's opinion, for what it's worth.
 
This is pretty interesting - I generally toast the foot with good results, but I use a torch lighter for this. Trying to toast the foot with matches or a soft flame obviously doesn't work as well...LOL

I am now forced to go home, smoke a cigar and try the alternative method... :laugh:
 
It's been my experience that toasting the foot is beneficial if you use a torch. However, if you use a soft flame, The Master's method as described above is the way to go.
 
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