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Cigarillos: A Brief Overview

Cigarillos are smaller than regular cigars but larger than cigarettes. They are wrapped in tobacco leaves or brown paper and meant to be smoked like cigars without being inhaled. On average, cigarillos contain about 3 grams of tobacco, are between 3-4 inches long and have a diameter of 6-9 mm. Most cigarillos are machine-made for lower costs compared to hand-rolled cigars. Popular cigarillo brands in the US include Black & Mild, Backwoods, and Swisher Sweets.

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Cigarillos: A Brief Overview

Cigarillos are smaller than regular cigars but larger than cigarettes. They are wrapped in tobacco leaves or brown paper and meant to be smoked like cigars without being inhaled. On average, cigarillos contain about 3 grams of tobacco, are between 3-4 inches long and have a diameter of 6-9 mm. Most cigarillos are machine-made for lower costs compared to hand-rolled cigars. Popular cigarillo brands in the US include Black & Mild, Backwoods, and Swisher Sweets.

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A cigarillo (from Spanish cigarrillo, meaning "cigarette", in turn

from cigarro ("cigar") + -illo(diminutive suffix), pronounced [siɣaˈriʝo] in parts of


Latin America or [θiɣaˈriʎo] in Spain) is a short, narrow cigar. Unlike cigarettes,
cigarillos are wrapped in tobacco leaves or brown, tobacco-based paper.
Cigarillos are smaller than regular cigars but usually larger than cigarettes.
Cigarillos are usually made without filters, and are meant to be smoked like a
cigar and not inhaled (except those made in this form only for specific tax
issues).
Generally, a cigarillo contains about 3 grams of tobacco, the length varies from
3 to 4 in. (7 – 10 cm) and the diameter is about 6 to 9 mm, usually 8 mm.
Comparatively, a cigarette contains less than 1 gram of tobacco[4] and is about
31⁄4 in. (8 cm) in length and 8 mm in diameter.
Most cigarillos are machine-made, which is cheaper than hand-rolling. It is
unusual to store them in humidors, partly because they are smoked in large
quantities and so have a short shelf-life.
Cheap cigarillos are typically marketed as a brand rather than with the
term cigarillo.[citation needed] In the United Kingdom common consumer
brands[1] include Henri Wintermans Café Crème and Hamlets and in the rest of
Europe Dannemann Moods, Candlelight, Agio Panters and Mehari's, Clubmaster
and Handelsgold are popular. In the United States they include Al Capone, Black
& Mild, Backwoods, Dutch Masters, Garcia Y Vega, Game, Splitarillos, Good
Times, Swisher Sweets and Phillies. Some famous cigar brands, such
as Cohiba or Davidoff, also make cigarillos - Cohiba Mini and Davidoff Club
Cigarillos.
In Spanish-speaking countries, as well as in the Philippines, cigarrillo means
a cigarette.

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