Jack’s Smoke Shop

This is not a cigar shop or a smoke shop. It’s a TV lounge reminiscent of the common area in most retirement homes. They happen to sell cigars but don’t like talking to customers with questions.

I just called the store asking about a product and what the price was. The man on the phone would not give me the price. He told me i had to come down in person but absolutely refused to tell me how much it cost and then he hung up on me. I have never been treated so rudely by someone in retail and for no apparent reason. I guarantee i will never shop at this establishment. Its kind of unfortunate for the owner because i need to by many many pounds and now i will take my business elsewhere and encourage everyone else to do the same. Pathetic.

You know those sad people in casinos who spend their days at a slot machine hooked up to oxygen and smoking cigarettes? I found where they hang out at home. They wile away the time at Jack’s Smoke Shop playing keno!
This place is basically a keno parlor that has two cigar cabinets by the entrance. They’ve got the Macanudo/​Partagas/​Fuento generation of cigars. The guy behind the counter didn’t really know much about what they sold. In fact, my questions seemed to be an interruption from whatever he was watching.

This is really a keno parlor with a few large cabinet humidors in the front of the shop.
They do carry some decent big name brands of cigars and they are generally in decent shape — but the humidors are not keeping the cigars in ideal conditions for someone who is a more serious afficionado.
The shop keepers are friendly but as others have noted — they are not too knowledgeable about cigars.
If you need a decent cigar — and you’re passing by — this place will definitely have something for you — but in terms of browsing and checking out new cigars — head to Watch City — just down the road in Waltham, or the S&A Smoke shop just around the corner on Mt. Auburn street.

Have you ever heard of Rosetta Stone shisha?
Neither had I until I set foot inside Jack Smoke’s shop, and I’m pretty glad I did.
Located in the center of Watertown, I used to pass this place every day on my way to work and longingly consider stopping in for a cigar. Upon my first visit here last weekend, I learned that there is, in fact, an ample selection of cigars spanning 2 – 3 humidors. (I think that’s what they call cigar cabinets, right?)
There is also a space for Keno in the back, which contained one sleeping old lady when I was there.
Oh! And back to the Rosetta Stone shisha. It’s not bad. It’s not as good quality as Al-​Fakhr, but it smells really good and mixes well with better quality stuff. Try the exotic blueberry, summer watermelon, and grape soda, if that’s your thing.

1^st props to allison for creating the listing, i was going to, but am too lazy
so anyways, back in the fall, i was looking for a pipe to compliment my Unilocalirific costume for the party Unilocal was kind enough to have. with no real pipe experience and being within driving distance, i figured lets give em a shot, so i did.
what did i find? i found a tobacco store with someone manning the counter with no tobacco knowledge! humpf! i looked at the pipes they had and when i inquired about what i needed to get started, the dude said i needed a screen and this and that. screens were a fortune and if college taught me nothing else, is that you can always use the screen from inside the spigot of your sink (;
anyways, i decided not to take the nestea plunge here and instead i went to watch city cigars in natick/​framingham for the information and tutelage i sought, i recommend you do the same.