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    Cigars: From Growing to Smoking
    Cigars: From Growing to Smoking
    Cigars: From Growing to Smoking
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    Cigars: From Growing to Smoking

    By JBC Online

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    Everything you need to know about cigars!

    The ultimate guide to understanding the creation of cigars, to selecting the perfect one for you.

    You'll also learn how to store your ideal cigar choice, and about smoking it when the time is right. You'll learn all of the most important techniques and terminology, as well as vital points of etiquette.

    These entertaining, information-packed chapters will help you to rapidly become a cigar connoisseur!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJan 19, 2015
    ISBN9781312848399
    Cigars: From Growing to Smoking

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      Cigars - JBC Online

      Cigars: From Growing to Smoking

      Cigars:

      From Growing to Smoking

      Everything you need to know about cigars.  The ultimate guide to understanding the creation of cigars, to selecting the perfect one for you.  Plus, how to store your ideal cigar choice, and smoking it when the time is right.  Become an international connoisseur in a few entertaining, information-packed chapters!

      A Guide by JBC Online

      Copyright © 2015 by JBC Online

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      First Printing: 2015

      ISBN 978-1-312-84839-9

      JBC Online

      Canada

      www.jbcOnlineEpublishing.com

      Liability/Warranty:

      The authors have made every attempt to provide the reader with accurate information.  This information is presented for information purposes only.  The authors make no claims that using this information will guarantee the reader personal or business success.  The discussion of websites , laws, procedures and other information contained in this book are current as of the date of publication.  The authors shall not be liable for any loss or damage incurred in the process of following advice presented in this book.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      History of Cigars

      Where it all began

      The American Indians

      Columbus’ Discovery

      The Cigar is Born

      The American Cigar Influence

      Cigar Sociology

      Theories linked with the mentality and physicality of cigar smoking:

      Traditions where only a Cigar will do

      Do you enjoy Cigarettes?

      Chapter 2

      How and Where Cigars Are Grown and Made

      Cigar Tobacco Seeds

      Soil

      The Basics of Growing Tobacco

      Harvesting, Sorting, and Fermentation

      Most Popular Growing Regions

      Cuban Cigars and American Laws

      Hand and Machine Manufacturing Processing

      Chapter 3

      Finding the Perfect Cigar for You

      Colors, Shapes and Sizes

      Cigar Shapes and Sizes

      Parejos - Straight Sided Cigars

      Figurados - Irregularly shaped Cigars

      Cigar Colors

      Taste – From Mild to Full Bodied Cigars

      Mild

      Medium

      Full Bodied

      Matching Cigars to Food and Drink

      Cigar Ratings and Descriptions

      Appearance

      Lighting, Burning and Long Ashes

      Construction

      Taste

      Where to Buy Your Cigars

      Chapter 4

      Storing Cigars

      How cigars are packaged

      How to Handle Cellophane

      How to Store Cigars

      Humidors

      How to tell when there’s a storage problem

      Travel Storage

      Chapter 5

      Cutting, Lighting and Smoking Cigars

      Cutting, clipping and punching

      Tools and their advantages and disadvantages

      Cigar Scissors

      Guillotine Cutter

      V Cutters

      Cigar Punch

      Knives

      Lighting (and relighting)

      Types of lighters

      Refueling your lighter

      Cleaning your Lighter

      Method for lighting

      Method for Relighting

      Smoking etiquette

      Holding the cigar

      What to do with the ash

      Blowing smoke

      Other customs

      Where can you (and can’t you) smoke

      Other cigar accessories

      APPENDIX A: Cigar Lexicon

      Chapter 1

      History of Cigars

      Millions of people all over the world smoke cigars.  Unlike cigarettes, cigars are a more privileged, prestigious and satisfying way to enjoy the taste of tobacco. Usually when a person thinks of a cigar, he or she calls up the image of a group of elderly distinguished gentlemen sitting around a large table in a pristine office, fashionable living room or smoking room, laughing and talking with a glass of Brandy in their hand, while they casually smoke their fine cigars.  This popular image is one that has been created by the books we read, the movies we watch and the stories that are passed down from generation to generation. 

      But what is the real story behind cigars?  How old are they?  Where did they come from?  Who discovered them, and how did they become so popular that to this day they are still an influential mark in society?  What are the traditions linked with cigars, and is there a higher satisfaction when smoking a cigar than a cigarette? This chapter is devoted to answering all of these questions, as well as providing you the significant social impact cigars had and still have on both men, women and society.

      Where it all began

      The first aspect to be considered, before learning about the history of cigars that began approximately in 16th century Europe, is the history of smoking tobacco. There is still speculation surrounding the length of time tobacco had been used for smoking by other civilizations, before Europeans discovered its existence.  Although an actual time period can not be identified, it is known that the plant originated in the American Continent; thus leading evidence to suggest that it was the American Indians who first used tobacco for smoking.

      The American Indians

      The tobacco plant was regarded as a sacred part of American Indian culture.  The plant was used for spiritual rituals, since the time fire was first discovered.  The American Indians believed that fire was a power of the gods, which was stolen and given to the people.  The tobacco plant was smoked in what the American Indians called a peace pipe, and the smoke that was produced from lighting the pipe was considered to be a direct link to the spirit world.  This was the way of the North American Indian and South American Indian tribes who were once linked to the Central America Mayan civilization.  Once the Maya civilization broke apart, the Maya people scattered and took the tobacco with them.  It is hypothesized that the tobacco plant probably first originated in Mexico, but according to history it was in the Caribbean where the famous European explorer, Christopher Columbus, first discovered smoking tobacco in 1492.

      Columbus’ Discovery

      The Spanish explorer, Christopher Columbus, is said to have discovered smoking tobacco first, however, other explorers such as Marco Polo, Sir Walter Raleigh, Vasco de Gama and Hernando Cortes, were also exploring the American continents at this same time, so it is difficult to pinpoint, in actually, which explorer first discovered the plant.   Regardless of such skepticism, it is Christopher Columbus who is the primary explorer that is most commonly recognized with finding and introducing smoking tobacco to European culture.  Therefore, it is his story that will be used.

      When Columbus found the Caribbean Arawak Indians smoking tobacco from a tube they referred to as a tobago in 1492, he and his crew discovered that they greatly enjoyed the practice, and immediately recognizing it as an excellent commodity, Columbus brought the tobago to Europe.  The term tobago is said to be the name from where tobacco stems from.  The official names of the tobacco plants used for chewing, snuff (inhaling powdered tobacco through your nose) and smoking tobacco are Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica.  The name Nicotiana is the Latin translation of Nicotine, which was inspired by the name of Jean Nicot, who was the French ambassador to Portugal who introduced smoking tobacco to France in the year of 1556.

      The Cigar is Born

      The two most common and popular ways for smoking tobacco in Europe during the 16th century, when it spread throughout various parts of the continent, was by Pipe or Cigar.  The word Cigar is from the original Spanish word Cigarra, which was originally derived from the Mayan word Sikar meaning smoke.  Compared to filling a pipe with tobacco, a cigar required a more refined production.  A selection of specially cured leaves from a tobacco plant are bundled and rolled tightly.  The end of the cigar is then lit, allowing the person to inhale the smoke from the tobacco, role it around in their mouth to taste the flavor, and then finally exhaling the smoke. 

      The cigars that people smoke today are certainly not the same tobagos that Columbus first encountered.  Modern cigars stemmed from those that were originally manufactured and created in 18th century Seville, Spain.  However, Spain did not grow their own tobacco plants and acquired them from Cuba.   Finally, after years of

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