No offense to any cigar smokers out there, but those things are nasty. They smell disgusting, just so you know.
This came up because last night I was at a poker tournament, sitting around a table with twelve guys and several of them were smoking cigars. I can handle the smell of cigarettes just fine, but cigars (at least in that high of a volume) for some reason make me sick to my stomach, and I was feeling pretty bad when I left after a few hours.
Of course, I could have been feeling sick because I wasn’t playing too well either. 
Ever since I decided that I wouldn’t take poker too seriously anymore, my game has definitely gotten a lot worse, as I expected. I made quite a few stupid betting pattern mistakes early on in the game, but not too many bad decisions - just didn’t play well enough to overcome an overall streak of bad cards and my out-of-practice mental state.
This eventually led me to being fairly short stacked by the time the blinds were getting up to serious levels, so I pretty much had to take my chances going all in with AQ vs. TT (classic race situation: 55/45), and his pair held up and I was out. Didn’t feel bad about that part though, it was a fine way to go out and I was feeling pretty bad by that point anyway.
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Just a note, I know you are not really preaching about not smoking cigars but here is a fact that might make you feel a little better.
cigarettes are much worse for you and others around you (do you know how many chemicals are added to them?)
Cigars are 100% tobacco with nothing at all added. Cigars have tobacco in its pure form. Maybe it is because I smoke cigars (not daily) but I would rather smell a cigar any day over a nasty cig…
Yeah, I guess it doesn’t matter much to me what chemicals, etc. are in them - I’m just saying they smell a lot worse (to me).
Your story reminds me of a union meeting I went to with my dad when I was a kid. Thick smoke hung down from the ceiling getting lower and lower.
I like to smoke A cigar, but I have to smoke it slowly as I can feel sick from them. It seems like our bodies are telling us that this is not a good thing…