The Instant Expert: to the afficionado, a cigar is never just a cigar

(TheNational) THE BASICS A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried tobacco that's ignited and sucked on to draw smoke into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown especially in the tropics, most notably in Cuba, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras, as well as in Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and the eastern United States. The word comes from sikar, the Mayan-Caribbean Indian word for smoking, which became cigarro in Spanish. Continued

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