When I was at my dad’s wedding I went through 5-10 $20-30 Padrón Serie 1926 (Nicaraguan) and took another five home and gave one to my best friend. Maduros are preferred (not the Venezuelan dictator.)

I’m not a cigar smoker (my budget is $10 tops, and most cigars I buy are the cheap-ass 2-packs for $1, made possible by being in a different tax class from cigarettes – I prefer quantity over quality when it comes to smoke, including weed, because I love smoking – meaning the government rakes in something like $4 for every $5 pack of cigarettes, and smokers lean poorer.)

My go-to smokes are LD reds, $5/pack, but that’s cigarettes. Whatever my friend has for $45/quarter for weed, or $60/quarter Pineapple Express sativa THCa bud when that’s not possible. One of the best parts about getting older is that you get better drug connections. I remember paying $50/eighth in high school some 20-25 years ago.