Lots of people don't like Gurkha because of the way they advertise and price. They have a thousand different cigars and each one is more ridiculously hyped than the last, "We make these for the Sultan of Brunei, but we had a few left over and if you act now..."

Plus their pricing is cheesy, with ungodly MSRPs but always on sale for the low low price of 99.2% off!

Anyway, lots of good advice in the thread already, and one more thing worth mentioning is if you do smoke a new cigar and get too much nicotine, like head swimming, sweating, nausea kind of stuff, drink some non-diet soda, juice, or even just dissolve some sugar in your mouth for a quick cure. Nicotine can mess with your sugar levels, and if you're new to cigars then you'll probably get a strong one at some point and feel it.