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Have you ever thought to yourself where tobacco cigars originated and how they came to the United States? When you want to relax and smoke a premium cigar from renowned brand names such as Ashton, Rocky Patel, Gurkha, Padron, or Macanudo, have you ever wondered about the history behind the discovery of cigars? No one really quite knows when the first tobacco cigars were created during ancient history. Modern history indicates that cigars were discovered by Rodrigo de Xeres, a lieutenant of Christopher Columbus. On October 28, 1492 Rodrigo noticed the indigenous population of San Salvador burning leaves and inhaling the smoke from them. These leaves derived from a local plant were used to create tobacco cigars. Rodrigo de Xeres smoked one everyday while on his expedition and developed a strong passion for these newly discovered smokes. The indigenous population in Central and Latin America did not smoke cigars in the same manner that we do today. In fact, they used to wrap the tobacco leaves around ears of corn, palm, or other local plants and vegetables. The Spanish take credit for creating and developing modern tobacco cigars such as Arturo Fuente, Montecristo, Oliva, H. Upman, and Oliva. The word, “cigar”, originates from the native language of the Mayans. Known as the “Sikar” in ancient times, the Spanish took this Mayan word and created a word in Spanish, “Cigarro”. The Spaniards were the first to introduce this favorite past time to Europe. Eventually, tobacco cigars spread throughout Spain, Portugal, and France, via Jean Nicot (French ambassador to Portugal who used his last name to create the word, “nicotine”). Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco cigars to Britain, upon his return from his voyages to America.
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Different countries started to create cigars from various cigar tobacco leaves. Spain, during the 18th century, used cigar tobacco to create the modern day cigar as we know them. Slowly thereafter, the Dutch started to develop their own cigar tobacco with the Far Eastern Colonies. The State of Connecticut started to grow their own cigar tobacco during the 17th century, shortly followed by the states of Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The latter part of the 19th century proved to be quite profitable in terms of cigar tobacco as Puerto Rico became the world’s fifth largest grower. Puerto Rico, from 1900 to 1927, produced over 35 million tons of cigar tobacco. Today, the U.S. is one of the largest producers in the world of cigars as well as one of the world’s largest consumers. Well established American Brand names of machine made tobacco products include Swisher Sweets, Black & Mild, Hav-A-Tampa, Dutch Masters, and Phillies.
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