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A tiny paper coffin you light on purpose and call a break.
means A thin roll of shredded tobacco wrapped in paper, meant to be lit and smoked.
from From French 'cigarette,' the diminutive of 'cigare' (cigar) — so literally a 'little cigar.' The cigar itself traces back to Spanish 'cigarro,' possibly related to a Mayan word for smoking, though that link is debated. The small paper-wrapped version spread in the 1800s, with cheap mass manufacture — rolling machines, matchbook advertising — turning the 'little cigar' into the dominant form by the century's end.
- name origin
- French diminutive of cigare, meaning little cigar
- peak sales
- 1963 US saw 523 billion sold
- burn temp
- tip hits 900 degrees celsius while smoked
- filter myth
- filters were marketed as safer, barely reduce harm