Smoking To best enjoy a cigar one should not inhale the smoke. The true pleasure is to be found in appreciating the composition of tobacco flavors and these can only be detected on the palate by your sense of taste. Thus any smoke inhaled to the toes is wasted. What to do with the ash of the cigar is a consideration worth mentioning. Many first time smokers will be tempted to treat their cigar like a cigarette, continually tapping the slightest ash off, when in fact a cigar's ash should be allowed to build up until it is ready to fall, as its consistency is a testomony to ow well the cigar has been made.
Cigars often go out in the course of being smokes, especially as they near the last third.
This is because natural oils are concentrating in the reducing cigar, and they automatically put the cigar out if it is not being drawn on regularly. This does not necessarily mean that the cigar is finished, but probably that it is time to re-light. As a rule of thumb you can re-light a cigar up to an hour after it has cone out without its flavors deteriorating.