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The earliest forms of cigarettes have been attested in Central America around the 9th century in the form of reeds and smoking tubes. The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco and various psychoactive drugs in religious rituals and frequently depicted priests and deities smoking on pottery and temple engravings. The cigarette, and the cigar, were the most common method of smoking in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central and South America until recent times. Cigarettes were largely unknown in the English-speaking world before the Crimean War, when British soldiers began emulating their Ottoman Turkish comrades, who resorted to rolling their tobacco with newsprint. The cigarette was named some time in the 18th century: beggars in Seville began to pick from the ground the cigar ends left by the señoritos ("rich, young men"), wrapped the tobacco remains with paper and smoked them. The first attested use in this habit can be seen in three 18th-century paintings by Francisco de Goya: La cometa (The Kite), La merienda en el Manzanares (Picnic by the River Manzanares) and El juego de la pelota a pala (The Ball and Paddle Game). In the George Bizet Opera Carmen, which was set in Spain in the 1830s, the title character Carmen was at first a worker in a cigarette factory. The use of tobacco in cigarette form became increasingly popular during and after the Crimean War. This was helped by the development of tobaccos that are suitable for cigarette use. From Wikipedia

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Accounts of men smoking tobacco leafs dates back to at least the 1500's. Cuba has long been thought to have the best cigars as it has the perfect climate to grow and age the leafs. In 1962 Cuban cigars became illegal to buy and sell in America in an effort to decrease communist power in Cuba. Original Cuban tobacco seed is now grown in other areas including Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, and the Honduras and is considered by many to be equally good or better than many Cuban cigars today.

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  1. Tobacco seed 2. Sprout 3. Plant 4. Grow 5. Cut. 6. Hang. 7. Dry 8. Strip. 9. Market. 10. Tobacco Company. 11. CIGAR………
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The native people of the Caribbean islands are given credit for inventing the cigar.

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depends on what kind of cigars they are...look at the cigar

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they came from the carrabien (Cuba to be exact)

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