Sounds like you had fun. I go to the Vegas Smoke every year. We go with anywhere between 2 and 6 people. If you go next year, email me and we will hook up before. The trick is to get about 5 or 6 people to split the coupons up, each taking 5 or so. Then, you only have to go to 5 or 6 booths to get the cigars. Meet up after the event and split up the bounty. It only took us about 15 minutes to go throught the coupons and we had the rest of the time to check stuff out.

This is my first time on the site. Looks great. Take care.

Rick

Mark c.

DamselnD'Stress aka. Clarice

Thank you for catching that. It is clear my knowledge of the Alec Bradley brand is a bit lacking, and I look forward to changing that.

When I met Alan I thought he introduced himself as "Alec," but it was hard to tell because the event was so loud.

I do have a question. At the risk of sounding critical, I was wondering if the gentleman in your Alec Bradley photo is actually named Alan Rubin? I thought I read somewhere that he named his line of cigars after his two sons, whose names are Alec and Bradley.

I'm not sure I have this right, but I could have sworn that I saw this somewhere.

If not, disregard. Love your blog!

–FR

The Big Smoke policy is to give every patron a coupon book for the various sticks at the beginning. You have to walk around to the many booths to pick the cigars up individually.

Personally, I think the event would have been more enjoyable if they just gave you all the cigars in a giftbag as you left. That way you'd have more time to talk, smoke, drink, and eat instead of worrying about collecting all the goodies.