Friday, October 26, 2007

Cigar!

drawing by marguerita
A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco, one end of which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth through the other end.

Most cigar smokers do not inhale the smoke.

The English cigar comes from the Spanish cigarro, which in turn derives from the Mayan word for tobacco, siyar; see the entry for cigarro at the Spanish Royal Academy's online dictionary.
Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, the Philippines, and the United States, Havana cigars from Cuba being particularly famous.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar
NEWS from Brazil:
Especialista ensina a maneira correta de apreciar um charuto
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/videocasts/ult10038u340114.shtml

http://jewisheritagefr.blogspot.com/2007/10/davidoff.html

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