A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves made to be smoked. Cigars are produced in a variety of sizes and shapes. Since the 20th century, almost all cigars are made of three distinct components: the filler, the binder leaf which holds the filler together, and a wrapper leaf, which is often the highest quality leaf used. Often there will be a cigar band printed with the cigar manufacturer's logo. Modern cigars can come with two or more bands, especially Cuban cigars, showing Limited Edition (Edición Limitada) bands displaying the year of production.
Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities primarily in Brazil, Central America (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama), and the islands of the Caribbean (Cuba, the Dominican Republ...
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Amsterdam
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Man rolling cigars at the Eyipantla Waterfall, San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico
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Cigar makers in Yauco, Puerto Rico, 1942.
Yauco, Puerto Rico. In a small cigar factory. These ciga...
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File was taken on our digital camera at 2005 Tampa Cigar Heritage Festival. Attempted to select "pub...
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A cigar holder.
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Cigar Wrapper Color Chart
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Cigar making display, Ybor City Museum State Park, Tampa, Florida
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At JC Newman, Tampa
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Taken by my at various different times The 5 most common cigar shapes (Parejo, Torpedo, Pyramid, Per...
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Foglia di tabacco per il sigaro Cohiba.
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Cigar case made of crocodile skin with sterling silver appointments and a Birmingham hallmark for 19...
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Four premium cigars of various brands (from top: H. Upmann, Montecristo, Macanudo (cigar), Romeo y J...
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Harry Pillsbury (5 december 1872, (Somerville, Massachusetts, VS) - 25 juni 1906) was een Amerikaans...
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World's largest cigar at the Tobacco and Matchstick Museum in Skansen.
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Cigar boxes at the Museo Regional de San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico
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Pre Hispanic tobacco pipe on display at the Museo Regional de San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico
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Example of a Cigar, a cigar cutter, and two cigar tubes, one open, one closed
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Long filler in a Rocky Patel Indian Tobac double toro cigar.