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A cigarette that went to business school and never let you forget it.
means A roll of cured, fermented tobacco leaves, wrapped in a tobacco leaf, meant to be smoked unlit-end first and savored rather than inhaled.
from English picked up 'cigar' in the 1700s from Spanish 'cigarro,' the word Spanish colonists used in the Caribbean and Central America. Where Spanish got it is debated: one old theory ties it to Mayan 'sikar,' meaning 'to smoke,' while another points to 'cigarra,' Spanish for 'cicada,' the insect a rolled cigar was thought to resemble. Neither is certain — the popular cicada story is charming but unproven — so the honest answer is that its deeper roots are murky, even though its path into English via Spanish is solid.
- origin
- Mayans smoked rolled tobacco over 2,000 years ago
- etymology
- name comes from Mayan word for smoking, sikar
- size claim
- world's longest cigar stretched over 280 feet
- ritual
- guillotine cutters exist solely to avoid using teeth