For me an its an indulgence, a habbit, a way if life. I just love sittting back and enjoying a nice stogie after work. Just trying to pick out the flavors and enjoy the experience. At other times it is a distactiin on a long road trip. When herfin it is the common bond that has brought me together with people I would not have met otherwise. Above all else it falls in the hobby catagory where I will senselessly sink way more money in it than I should. Another aspect to cigars to me its a way of reconnecting with my grandfather that passed. He always would sit and enjoy a cherry minuet man cigar. On especially rough days I will go into my sister's humidor and smoke one of her cigars. It was the last activity we had shared in common before her passing.