I recently had the joy of receiving a beautiful coffee book for free entitled The Cigar – Moments of Pleasure, by Morten Ehrhorn & Justin Hummerston (official book page). It’s a hardbound book, 312 pages, pretty heavy—and absolutely brimming with information about cigars and gorgeous color photographs.
I’ve read a number of coffee table books about cigars over the years. Some of them are amazing; many more are ambitious, but fall short of achieving their aims.
This one is by far one of the best I have read! The Cigar – Moments of Pleasure covers everything you could hope to learn about cigars—their history, how and where they are made, all about cigar leaves, and even how cigars stimulate our brains. There is research in this book I simply haven’t seen anywhere else. And the photographs and the layouts are absolutely stunning!
Like a good cigar itself, this is a book you want to spend time with, leisurely turning through the pages, enjoying the experience moment by moment. In fact, there is no better way to do it than while smoking your favorite stogie.
It is a pricey book, but very reasonable in light of what you are getting—hundreds of pages of color photographs and a goldmine of information; right now on Amazon it is going for $59. It’s well worth the cost; it’s a great book for newbies who are just starting to learn about cigars as well as veteran smokers who want to add to their already-comprehensive knowledge. Anyone can learn something from this book, or just lose themselves in the photos.
I would like to have this!
I would be proud to display this in my living room!!
This would make for a great addition to my apartment.
Learning a lot about cigars this book will add to my growing knowledge Thank you for the chance win
This looks wonderful. Thanks for the review. If one doesn’t arrive courtesy of you, I’ll have to visit Amazon. Best regards.
This would make a great addition to my man cave!
I really want to have one, good for both leisure and working time. Hope I’m one of the lucky person.
Im so thrilled to have found your site!
I’ve only started cigar smoking for a month and keep coming back to your site for reviews and whats good to buy!
To me it feels like you review it for what a cigar actually is, unlike some people i’ve met in person who will only recommend me for the brand or the profit they will reap…and lastly, have to say your site serves me better than cigar aficionado !! thanks for the chance to win the book!
a welcome addition to any library
this is a cigar book that i really need since I don’t have 1. thank you for the opportunity to win it!
This will be something good to read.
Thanks for the giveaway!
This is why Cigar Inspector is my go to site.
Looks like a great book
Great!!,looks like an excellent book
This book looks great! Going to have to suggest it to the wife as a birthday gift 😉
It would be a great book to add to the man cave coffee table!
I want one and my friends will too.
GUTTED not to be allowed to participate … even being a subscriber … for WHATEVER reason there is …
VEry very nice book nevertheless, good photos too (& I rarely regard photo as ´good´ nowadays), would love to get one as I am not on Ama …
Looks nice!
Looks stunning, the photos look great (& I rarely use the term ´great´ regarding photos nowadays).
Hope to be 8th/9th/,th time lucky in the contest on here as I am not on Ama
THX for the chance
Looks stunning, the photos look great too (& I rarely write ´great´ about photos these days) upon the book´s offi web / would love to win it as I am not on Ama, so hope I am 8th/9th/?th time lucky in the contest on here.
THX for the chance
I will be a great read..
Looks like a fantastic read!
Nice addition to any collection.
Thanks for the opportunity to acquire it.
Sounds like an incredible book!
Thanks for having the contest.
That book looks really well produced and comprehensive…It’d be great to sift through while enjoying a great cigar.
Looks like a great educational resource for a relative newbie to cigars like me!
I’m fairly new to cigars one of these could surely help me out.
Very cool. I would like to check it out.
Looks like a great coffee table book on cigars! Would love to get my hands on it.
Wow. Looks like a cool publication.
Count me in!
Nice! i love coffee table editions and this one looks awesome!
I look forward to adding this one to my collection.
What a great looking book! I can see having this out when my herfing buddies come over, or even as a fantastic Christmas or birthday gift for a VERY goos cigar-smoking buddy!
I like picture books
Sounds like a really cool book!
Awesome contest
Thanks for the contest! What a nice book!
Moving into my fourth month on my cigar journey. I’m completely loving it. Thank you for the opportunity!
Def. want this! Thanks for the opportunity
Pretty neat!
Yeah I need this book!
That would be nice on my coffee table.
Nice book, cross my fingers.
I like it a lot.
I would like to inspect this book. Then maybe I could become a CIGAR INSPECTOR!!
Great looking book! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Looks like an awesome book, would love to own it!
This book looks really cool
Wow – awesome book!
I’m hoping to add this to my book collection whether I win or not. 🙂
Looks like a great book, would really like one
I have enjoyed reading my (now outdated) copy of the International Connoisseurs Guide to Cigars by Jane Resnick,1996 Edition.
I’ve been smoking cigars for over 20 years and the one thing I’ve learned is that there is always something new to learn!
This is the best Cigar book ever produced – the reviews are outstanding.
This book will be a perfect complement to some fine stogies from around the world! It’ll add the spark to my decaf coffee table!
Perfect read while smoking a cigar!
Great contest. Would love to have one.
It looks beautiful!
What a great opportunity. Love these contests
Nice! Would look great in my office.
Peepers feast! Another layer to the enjoyment of cigars.
Gotta have it!!!!!!
Looking forward to reading it!
Looks great!
Nice looking book. Thanks for the contest!
Certainly something I need and I will absolutely buy one – but since my birthday is on April the 10th… (hint hint.. 😉 )
I look forward to reading the Cigar book. I have read Andrew Lucks book several times and its a great conversation starter.
Sounds like an excellent resource. Always looking for information and suggestions. Thanks for doing this.
Fantastic looking book!
This looks like a great read!
Looks like a great book.
Looks great!
Lookin forward to receiving my winning copy
I want it
would love to read this in Asia
I hope I don’t leave too much ash between these beautiful pages…
the book i was looking for!!
Looks like a must have cigar book to me.
It would be nice to win this book. I don’t have a coffee table. I don’t have a table. I don’t have any coffee.
I do have some fine cigars. Davidoff, El Rey Del Mundo, Padron 1964/26..
Smoke On!
Great newsletter and blog!!!
This would be an an awesome addition to my cigar collection.
This would make a great addition to the man cave!
Wow. Looks like a great read!!
I have not seen any book or article about the cigar can stimulate our brain, anxious to read about it… cheers
dude, I need that book!
My coffee table is looking a little empty…
Looks like an interesting book. I would love to have my name in the running for a copy. Thanks
Looking forward to reading this book. Thanks.
Would be an honor to win this beautiful book.
Wow,what an awesome looking book! I’ve been enjoying cigars now for over 25 years and I never tire of trying new cigars and learning more about them. It looks like a wonderful resource for enriching the cigar experience.
Thank you for this great book. A better world needs more cigar smoking guys !
Love your site, your reviews, articles & your giveaways. Hope to win that very interesting book.
Thank you for all you do and keep up the great work!
I am both a book lover and a cigar lover. This is one contest I would love to win. Thanks for the opportunity.
A good book, like a good cigar, is indeed pleasure. Thank you for highlighting this book. Looks great.
WOW! What a great gift! Thanks for the contest.
looks ah-mahzing
Love it! Mine, mine, mine!
What greet looking book!
Looks like a really neat book.
Looks like a great read!!
Great looking book, would look ever better on my coffee table beside the humidor.
I friend of mine gave me a on my birthday the history of the Cuban Cigar since then I have been collecting most book about the topic. Most of them are repetitive tough and not a lot of information but still nice if you are building a book collection.
Fantastic book, needs to be displayed on my night table
I would love to add this to my coffee table
This is a really nice offer. Thank you.
Thank you, Ehrhorn Hummerston, for this opportunity!
This would be awesome to win to add to te coffee table collection!
Looks great
I look forward to reading this wonderful book whilst enjoying one of my fine stogies and a dram of bourbon.
In it to win it!!
Looks like a great read. Thanks for another great contest!!!
Seems like a great read. Would look forward to reading it. Thanks for the opportunity.
Unfortunately, I did not start exploring the joys of smoking a good cigar until my 60’s. All those wasted years of my youth. I intend to check this book out as I am sure that there is a lot this old dog doesn’t know about cigars!
Looks like a great book! Can’t wait to read it!
Nice offering…
I agree, I have not found a really good cigar book in all of my searches. I look forward to reading this one.
since I never win anything. I just went to Amazon to get this book. and as my luck has it. it is NO longer available
I would love to learn more about my passion for cigars
I would love to own this book!
looks like a book I will have to read. which in turn, I will have to buy more Cigars. then another humidor..
Fantastic looking, would love to give it a read through.
Awesome.
Smoketabulous! A must have for Cigar lovers.
Thats a nice book to have in the man cave
My wife and I love reading and sitting on the porch with a couple of good cigars and some bourbon. Live is good at 65.
Looks great!
Sounds like an interesting book.
A great way to spend a lazy afternoon a good book and a great cigar
Mmmmm
The book looks great. I’d love to own a copy.
I’ll take 2!!! hahahah thanks!!!
Great gifted. Sure an excellent guide for beginners..
The book is art. I can only imagine how rich the content is.
My favourite cigar book is ” cigar cool ” by Jonathan futrell if your books better than this then I’ll be impressed.
Would love to have copy of this book very nice.
There is only one thing that I like almost as much as smoking a fine cigar……….it is reading about fine cigars!!!!
looks like an interesting read. Will check it up on amazon.
Prefect addition to my man cave!
Simply put…I am brand new to cigars and have a great affection for cigars and this book will help me along with my journey.
Thanks.
A great gift to yourself or a friend. I’d enjoy reading this with a good cigar and a whiskey.
I have a coffee table…
Thanks for the contest, guys!
Looks like a tasty read!
Beautiful photos.
That is a beautiful book
Would gladly add it to my cigar book collection!
Can’t wait to read it
Thanks for another contest.
That book would look perfect on the table in my man cave!
Looks like a beautiful addition to my coffee table! Thanks for the giveaway!
This book looks amazing
Looks very nice, something that you would like to hold in your hands. Would love to have on my table
Looks to be an amazing read. Hope to win one and buy a couple more for my smokin budies!!!!!!!
Looks like a great read and would be a wonderful addition to my cigar lounge/ pool house.
Good looking book.
Keep on rolling and smoking. Salud!
I’d love to read this book. and thanks for running another contest.. keep bringing out the good stuff!
That book, a single malt, and a good cigar on my deck sounds awesome!
Wow, looks like an awesome book! Hope you pick me!
Our little Cigar Club in Florida is going to Cuba in Oct and this sound like something we should have before then.
Put me in the Hat Drawing Please (smile).
Here’s to Blue Smoke!
Lee
I’d love to won this. What a great way to kill a weekend. Favorite cigars, favorite beverage, and spend hours enjoying this book. Sign me up.
Looks great! Thanks for highlighting this release!
I had thought about ordering my own, I guess I’ll wait now.
Neat book. Thanks for this great site and giveaways.
A book like this will go well alongside the golf books and art books I lay out now. A wonderful giveaway. Fingers crossed.
A nice conversation piece for my smoking den
I like it alot
Looks like a great book to have. I’ve only been smoking cigars for a couple months so hopefully I can learn something from it. There’s so much I’ve learned already but so much stuff I have yet to learn and want to.
Looks like an awesome read!
Looks beautiful. Love books. Hope it doesn’t drool over the Castro’s.
Signed American cigar enthusiast.
Exactly the kind of book a beginner like I am needs.
Looks like a good read.
Looks good, wouldn’t mind picking this up (even if I didn’t win).
Would love an awesome cigar book to add to the cigar room!
me want book! Thank CI.
I would love this book! Boy, it would sure be nice to be a winner!
This book would pair well with a Single Malt and Montecristo No. 2 while sitting at my bar.
Thanks again CI for another awesome giveaway. This one looks pretty sweet
That book looks absolutely fantastic!
Looks like a great read!
Too bad it’s not a pop-up book in which, when you turn to certain predetermined pages, a nice hand-rolled cigar pops up.
I really enjoy enhancing my knowledge of cigars. A cigar smoker for over 40+ years, I have seen the devotion to quality cigars increase over time, and still “affordable” to live the good life. Thanks for the post.
I can always learn more about Cigars. I would love to have this book.
Great info and another great competition!
I have been smoking cigars for about 20 years now and I would really like to have this book for reference
Looks like an interesting book with some great pics too.
Love to have this beautiful book on my coffee table!
can I get the book in my nears eason store in bangor county down thank you
Long time cigar lover but I must admit I have limited knowledge of cigars. This would be a wonderful addition.
This looks like a necessary add to my collection of cigar literature, great giveaway idea!
Great book…..this will replace all the Cigar Aficionados piling up on current coffee table.
Thanks for the review, lots of lack luster cigar books out there.
Looks like a great book on cigars. I would love to have this on my coffee table!
Been a fan of cigars for 60 years. Looking forward to winning one of these copies for my coffee table…lol
Welcome back Cigar Inspector 🙂 Looks like there’s a few books coming out about cigars as of late and this one looks be the one to get ahold of. Thanks for another great contest and good luck everyone.
Now I need to go out and buy a coffee table.
I just love to read and ever since I started smoking cigars I have been looking online and in the book stores for information. this book looks like it is a gold mine and I cant wait to get it..
I want it!
The price from Amazon sounds pretty reasonable for a well done table book. I love studying about cigars. The history, the origins of the growers, blenders and makers all areenthralling.
Gee, being an old geezer on a fixed income, goads me into hoping for this prize.
Thanks for sharing!
Would love to have it to increase my knowledge and love of cigars.
I can’t wait to see how my brain will be stimulated by the reading of this research about cigar brain stimulation!
Looks like book to me!
Looks like a great deal to me
Love to read, love to smoke!
A great book to read while having a great cigar!
I would love to have this beautiful book, whether I am selected or not, I will be adding it to my library.
That would make me enjoy reading!.
I’ve read The Complete IDIOTS guide to Cigars by Tad Gage, The Cigar Lover’s Compendium by Lawrence Dorfman, The Ultimate Cigar Book by Richard Hacker and read every issue of Cigar Aficionado from cover to cover; many twice. Winning a copy of ‘The Cigar – Moments of Pleasure’ would be just that and more…a long and lasting moment of pleasure. I’m fascinated with cigar history, the great multi-generational family legacies, the upstarts like Willy Herrera,the agriculture/growing, the harvesting, the art and science of maturation, curing and rolling. This particular book will be read and re-read I’m sure. And it will be prominently displayed as my coffee table centerpiece surrounded by Wine Spectator and Travel & Leisure.
Thanks for this opportunity,
Henry
When you know better, you smoke better!
Looks beautiful. Would love it!
Happy Smokes !!!
Would be a great read for a newbie like me!
Looks like an excellent book! Would love to add this to my collection! Thank you.
Incredible book and giveaway. Been smoking for 15 years + and have really learned a great deal, especially what brands (Cuban, of course, Monte #2 in particular), and don’t like (strong). Keep up the great work! This book would just educate me even more.
Beautiful book.
Sounds like a great read…full of info!
Looks like a great book, both to read and look at! Thanks for another great contest.
Excited to get my hands on a copy of this! Looks very interesting
Looks very entertaining!
Looks like a great read
Looks like a well written and researched book. I would be a proud owner of such a beautiful book.
I would absolutely love this book! It may even get me to buy that new coffee table the wife keeps asking about? Hahahaha
It would look better than the old stack of CA on my coffee table now.
Would be a great edition to any cigar book collection
That would look good on my coffee table.
Looks like a nice book to have. Thanks for the giveaway!
Many thanks for the opportunity!
Looks an amazing read!
I use Cigar Inspector because of the fair and balanced reviews!
I need that book!
What a wonderful source of knowledge for all aficionados!
Book would be perfect on my coffee table next to one of my humidors.
The cigar book of cigar books!
Would love a chance to look through it!
This looks like a great book! I would be a great addition to a novice like me. Fingers crossed to be a winner.
This looks like a must have!!!
I love books and cigars!
Moments of pleasure may be the combination of a good cigar, a good beverage and a book to stimulate the mind. A combination that this book can genuinely contribute to. Thanks for the opportunity to comment.
That book looks awesome. I’ve been looking for a comprehensive book on cigars and this is perfect. Great Offering!
Looks great, I want it!
Would go well with my coffee and a fat stogie.
That’s a beautiful masterpiece. I would be honored to have that, Great read and also a great conversation piece.
What a great looking and informative book. It would look wonderful in my living room on the coffee table.
This book will look great beside my humidor. Thanks for the contest.
I’ve heard the book is great!
Looks like it could provide a great education on cigars.
I would love to have one of these books for my collection.
I’m looking for an informative cigar book….hope you pull my name!
Looks like an awesome book!
The only trouble having a book like this is that it would introduce me to even more cigars that I’d have to seek out and try … life’s tough!
This book would replace my wife’s book on needlepoint that is currently on our coffee table. Have mercy and pick me.
Looks like a great read and good have for the cigar fan!!
Nice book. Would look great on my coffee table.
Looks amazing. Can’t wait to read it.
I’m interested in reading the part about how cigars stimulate the brain. I assume it addresses not just the sensory aspects of taste and aroma, but also has information on organic chemicals in the smoke and their affect(s).
Thanks for notifying me about this contest. I would love to have that book in my man Cave next to my collection for everyone to read.
Would love to have it! Thanks for the giveaway.
This looks like a terrific book! I’d love to be able to have it out on my coffee table for myself and guests to look at and read through.
What a lovely and generous gift!
Looks like a wonderful book! I hope I win!
Thanks
Would make a very informative read I’m sure.
I need that book for my collection!!
Looks like a great book.
Looks like a great book. Winning it would be awesome. That would give me $60 to spend on cigars, instead of a book about cigars. I could read the book about cigars while smoking cigars. Cigars. That is all.
Win or not, I will add this book to my collection and buy a copy to give away at our annual cigar event. Knowledge and the gift of sharing that knowledge with others is priceless.
Looks like an incredible book. Would love to have that on my coffee table!
I need this!
I would love to have this book. I’m fascinated by cigars.
I’d love to have this book on my coffee table! Look great. Thanks!
Would love to have that book!
Looks like a good read!
Nice looking and informative book…would look great on my coffee table.
The perfect piece to complete any smoking lounge or man cave. Looks amazing!
Looks awesome, would be a nice addendum to the book shelf.
I recently saw a copy at a handsome shop in Beverly Hills and lost a good hour to its pages. A superb addition to any collection and among the best books in the genre. Bravo!
Looks like a great book!
Perfect read with a wonderful stogie.
I’ve been enjoying cigars for over 40 years, but I will never be too old to learn more and enjoy more the pleasure that cigar smoking can bring. This looks like the perfect accompaniment to my daily smoke as I unwind from life’s chores. I would cherish this and share with my cigar buddies.
I would love to have this book. Im fascinated by cigars.
This looks like a great read!
That’s the kind of book with a great pages smell! 😀
That’s amazing! It would be great to have this book on my coffee table! 😉
Looks great!
thanks for running another great contest!
Looks like an incredible piece!