Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

Cigar production combines tradition and technical precision, transforming raw materials into a finely crafted product. The ...

This also had to do with a lot of rare cigars having aged tobacco leaves. Some brands even have tobacco that is aged for at ...

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For more than 200 years, the culture of cigar making in Cuba hasn't changed. In a process that takes about a year, tobacco leaves are grown, harvested, and hung in drying houses called secaderos ...