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What kind of tobacco is used to make cigars? How do you make them? If you want to make your own how do you do it

Cigars are mostly made from palm leaves or plantain leaves, dried twisted tobacco leaves rolled up and smoked, this is the original cigar. Research revealed a never-before-seen plant on the island, and the natives used the leaves of this plant, dried them and then burned and inhaled their smoke.

Columbus brought back the tobacco seeds he found and planted them, which became the latest trend among European aristocrats. The main leaves were rolled into cigars, and the leftovers and bad leaves were used as cigarettes and pipe tobacco. Can't make it yourself.

The correct way to smoke a cigar:

1, spit out the smoke sucked into your mouth! The biggest difference between smoking a cigar and smoking a cigarette is not just that you don't inhale the smoke into your lungs, but also that, you have to exert yourself to hurry up and spit the smoke out, spit it out. Because, with a cigar you're not trying to inhale the smoke that burns out, you're trying to savor the aroma that remains.

2. Blow on the head of the lit cigar with your mouth, see the circle of ash showing a reddish glow of fire ...... and then take your first puff! Suck it in the same way as you would smoke a cigarette, with a big gulp.

Identifying a good cigar from a bad one:

1. The core of a good cigar is a combination of flaky tobacco leaves

The core of a top quality cigar smoke that is fully handmade must be flaky. If the core is mechanically cut into pieces, the fibrous tissue and chemical composition of the tobacco will have greater changes, reducing the original quality of the tobacco. Therefore, the core of the finest cigar tobacco is made by hand. The tobacco leaves are torn into leaves of 8-15 millimeters in size.

2, the flavor is not bitter is not a cigar

Good cigar eating taste bitter and sweet, bitter in the front, sweet in the back, just right, so that people can not say whether it is bitter or sweet, like people drink coffee, from his bitter to enjoy the mellow and rich aroma, sweet and savory taste. Good cigar smoke bitter and sweet is fused in its mellow and full-bodied aroma and long comfortable aftertaste.