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Cigarettes
A cigarette is a small paper-wrapped cylinder. The cylinder contains cured, shredded or cut tobacco leaves. A normal cigarette length is 120 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter. Read more →Cigars: Cigar Manufacture
Cigar StrengthCigars are classified as mild, medium, or full bodied. The body refers to the impact the smoke is supposed to have inside the mouth. It is difficult to measure because it is a subjective perception, which is the reason why cigars are often rated "mild to medium" or "medium to full". Read more →Cigars: Curing Tobacco
Curing Tobacco: a NecessityLike many plants, green tobacco is 90 percent water. After being harvested, and before going to the barn, the tobacco has faded a little and the water content is about 80%. Read more →Cigars: Growing Tobacco Part 2
How Many Tobacco Plants per Acre?Each type of tobacco has an ideal denseness in the field. To ensure a well balanced development of the plant and produce the product required by industry, the grower has to respect spacing between plants when transplanting. Read more →Cigars: Processing Tobacco
Why Process Tobacco?After being harvested and cured, tobacco is not fully stabilized and can not be kept long. It must next be fermented. Fermentation is a complex process, but to make a long story short, one can say that it is a transformation of the chemical components by oxydation. Read more →Cigars: Quality Control
Quality Control ItemsQuality control on cigars concerns the construction, appearance, taste and suction(draw). Once it is done, it is not finished. Quality control has to be exercised on all packaging material and, then, on the full box to check the shading of the cigars before closing it. Read more →Cigars: Smoking Your Cigar
Basic TastesThe human tongue is able to determine 4 basic tastes : sweet, salted, acid and bitter. That's all ! The rest is a matter of flavor related to the sense of smell. Read more →Cigars: Some Producing Countries
The Dominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is the world's largest handmade cigar manufacturer. Although its cigar making tradition is very old, production was boosted in the 1960's with the Cuban embargo. Read more →Cigars: The Binder & The Filler
Why Use a Binder?The first function of the binder is to hold fillers while the bunch dries in the mold and until the wrapper is rolled onto the cigar. It can have just this purpose. Read more →Cigars: The Cigar Wrapper
With Patrice Hirschfeld:Does A Dark Wrapper Mean A Strong Cigar?Maybe you have heard that the darker the wrapper, the stronger the cigar. This is both true and not true. Read more →1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337
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