We were at my step-brother-in-law Brian's wedding in San Diego and I learned something new - about cigars. I had never understood why you need to cut the end off of a cigar before lighting it. The cheap ceegars we used to smoke in college did not require this (Antonio Y Cleopatra and their ilk, some with the charming warning about "substantial amounts of non-tobacco material"). It turns out that modern day yuppie cigars don't have a hole in the end to suck the smoke through. Here are some web tips on how to cut the end off a cigar before lighting it. It turns out matches are no good either (too much sulpher). But all in all, it's still sometimes amusing to puff on a cigar and emulate a Civil War general.