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Uptown Cigar HELPFUL CIGAR INFORMATIOM

Please select from the links below to find out interesting facts about some of the more intricate and commonly misuderstood facts of the cigar culture.

Common Cigar Sizes

Anatomy of a Cigar

Seasoning a Humidor

Bruce and Carlito Fuente

DID YOU KNOW?

The word CIGAR comes from the Spanish word: cigarro.

The people of the West Indies were smoking cigars when Christopher Columbus came to America. Sir Walter Raleigh may have started the tobacco industry in the colonies, but in 1613, it was John Rolfe who began shipping tobacco back to Europe. Rolfe also married Pocohontas. Even before the time of Raleigh, smoking tobacco, in one form or another had been used for sacred ceremonies, relaxation and for celebrations.Cigars didn't always come in sweet smelling cedar boxes. In the old days, cigars were packed in pig's bladders, to keep them moist.Statistics show that in 1973, (a previous height of cigar consumption) Americans smoked 11.2 billion cigars: 54 cigars for every person in America.

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