Master the Art of Properly Lighting A Cigar
by The process of lighting a cigar is not the same as lighting a cigarette. A cigar is a meticulously crafted product, with each part playing a crucial role in the overall smoking experience.
Category: Tobacco
Feature stories and articles about tobacco and various products using tobacco.
Tobacco is a plant that is widely grown in many parts of the world. It is used to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and pipe tobacco.
For thousands of years, people have been using tobacco for its medicinal properties. Native Americans chewed tobacco leaves and smoked them in pipes in order to relieve pain, ease hunger pains and help with digestion. The Spanish also used it as an herbal remedy for toothache. In Europe and Asia tobacco was smoked or chewed as a painkiller or stimulant until the 1800s when scientists discovered nicotine was addictive.
Tobacco plants are native to South America but spread throughout the world during the 1500s when explorers brought them back from expeditions to find new lands. The plant spread quickly through Europe, Africa and Asia where it became a valuable crop for farmers who grew it for its leaves which were then dried out and rolled into cigarettes or cigars.
Best Selling Cigarettes in America – 2023
by This list of the best-selling cigarettes in America includes all the most popular tobacco brands among smokers in the USA coming into 2023. We also found some whimsical cigarette TV commercials from the 1950s-1970s.
Rebellious History of Tampa Cigars – Ybor City, Cigar Capital USA
The history of Tampa cigars starts with Cuban immigrant workers fleeing Spanish Cuba in the late 1880s. Entrepreneurs and worker skills built Ybor City into the largest cigar city in the world.