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How to choose the best Cuban Cigars?

2011-09-28T13:26:00.001+07:00

How to choose the best Cuban Cigars?--Everyone knows that Cuban cigars are the most coveted cigars, renowned worldwide for the smooth and rich taste. Indeed, Cuban cigars are so valuable that many illegitimate dealers have been known to sell fake Cubans to unsuspecting cigar smokers. How do you know if what you have is fake or original? First, make sure that you purchase your cigars from a legitimate dealer. Buying from a local tobacconist or a reputable mail order business can protect you from forking your money for a box of fake cigars.

If you have the opportunity to buy a box of Cuban cigars is recognized, but have your doubts, take time to check the box before buying it. Here are some tips to help you recognize a fake from the real thing.

The most important thing to examine is the box. Authentic Cuban cigars will contain a green and white warranty seal on the left side of the front of the box. Seals will contain a symbol that has a picture of a shield and a hat. In the upper right corner of the box, you should find a white sticker that is placed diagonally with the word 'Habanos' printed on it. Overall appearance of the box should be neat and clean. If the box appears damaged, soiled, worn, or marked,
avoid it. If the dull color of the box, do not buy it. Even if the cigars are the real things, their quality may have suffered in transport. If you're in the market for Cohiba, Trinidad, or Q'dorsay brand cigars, know that all authentic Cohiba's will contain a green and white warranty seal on the right side of the box.

At the bottom of a cigar box, you should find a heat stamp with the words' Habanos. "Heat stamp should be impressed into the bottom of the box. Fake Cuban cigar boxes often find other ways to instill this label, such as using rubber stamps or paper labels. You should also find a factory code stamp at the bottom is printed in green, blue or black ink. The stamp will tell you when and where the cigars are rolled.

If you can open the box, take the time to smell the tobacco. Cuban cigars will have a deep, rich aroma, clear to dedicated cigar aficionados. If the smell is off, or very weak, chances are you do not have a box of authentic Cuban cigars in your hands. Cigars should be facing the same way, and the top row may look a little flat. The caps on all the cigars should appear identical, and the foot of each cigar should be cut clean. Band in all the cigars should also be identical, and must be arranged so that they face the same direction. If allowed, test the cigars out by pressing down on them. Feel along the entire length of each cigar, checking soft or hard spots. Cigars should feel firm yet pliable.

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Virginia Tobacco Cultivation Method

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How to cultivate Virginia Tobacco?These are some way about Virginia Tobacco Cultivation method (based on Indonesian method)
1. SOIL TREATMENT
Ground processing carried out by using a hand tractor farm equipment at least 2 x hijacking to prepare the best medium for the cultivation of tobacco by maintaining soil fertility.

2. PLANTING AND Fertilization
Forty-five days s / d and fifty days (45 s / d 50) after sowing, seedlings were planted on the ground guludan in fields that have been selected with the appropriate area and need to know before planting the seeds needed to be trimmed, in order to avoid stagnation.

At planting, fertilizer stage I with the type and dose and way of fertilizing. The NPK fertilizer used (Fertila) with a dose of 10 grams / rod.

Fertilization II with plant age 21 days to do Fertilization with NPK (KNO 3) with a dose of 5 g / stem.

3. Pembubunan and irrigation
Pembumbunan is the process undertaken to keep the soil loose, in preparation for a good growing medium for plants and tobacco as well as to clean the weeds (Weeds).

The irrigation system (Irrigation) is very important in ensuring the quality of Virginia tobacco clan productivity levels.

4. PUNGGEL AND WIWIL / Suli
Punggel and wiwil / Suli ensure the use of plant nutrients in the process of developing tobacco leaves to get the number of leaves, leaf weight and high quality that will provide maximum bacilli for farmers. The use of natural sukirisida done with production cost reasons, the application of environmentally friendly technologies that all this is done in a timely manner.

In the implementation of wiwilan very important because it will affect the thickness of the leaf / leaf weight.

5. INTEGRATED PEST AND DISEASE CONTROL (IPM)
Integrated Pest Management is implemented in accordance with the conditions of the existing plant to prioritize the use of Bio Pesticides with regular supervision, of pesticide residues in both Virginia tobacco plants. Adapaun use of pesticides and chemicals can be used (Dancis, Furadan) depending on existing pests.

6. HARVEST
Harvesting is a very important milestone to be considered in getting a high quality harvest. As for who has to be noted as follows:
- Maturity of leaves
- Uniformity of leaves in the process of planting
- Handling of leaf crops

Most of the varieties of tobacco leaves are harvested based on maturity level is started from the bottom leaf to leaf by picking up 2 to 3 leaves on each plant at intervals of one week until the plants leaf out.

7. POST-HARVEST
Virginia tobacco sold in the form of dry oven or pengomprongan (Curing).
Curing is a biological process which releases moisture from wet tobacco leaves are harvested in a state of life. During this time there are some farmers who argue that tobacco curing is the drying process only. Not realizing that the cells inside the leaf is still alive after harvest.

Curing Objectives:
Actually curing purposes are:

- Removing the water of life of tobacco leaf water content 80 -90% to 10 -15%.
- Change the color of the leaves become green substance with the scent of orange WARDA in accordance with the standards of processed tobacco.

The characteristics of mature leaves:
Therefore to get the curing / omprongan good tobacco, the tobacco leaves that have been cooked and uniforms.

The characteristics of the ripe leaf is:

- Colour yellow-green leaves have started with some colored leaf tip and edges brown.
- Colour green leaf stalks yellow, whitish.
- Position the leaf / leaves flat bone
- Sometimes there are leaves on a sheet of brown spots, as a symbol of aging.

The things to note:
At the time of curing, which need to be considered also is the capacity of leaves in the oven. As an example for the oven size 4 x 4 x 7 shelves comparable to 1.8 ha, while the 5 x 5 x 7 racks maximum 2.8 ha. Also weather processing time, when the rainy season should be more lenient than the dry season.

At Harvest

At harvest time the tobacco must be ascertained how many pieces should be picked according to the capacity of the oven. Tobacco leaves are picked to be long and leaves the same position, because if the age of leaves and different leaf positions, would be very difficult to determine when to raise the temperature of the oven, when to go to the next stage, when the balls to open vents and so on. Therefore, farmers' knowledge clan leaf pickers must be really good about this harvest time. Preferably just before harvest, farmers gather all relevant personnel notified petiknya clan which has been allowed where the clan that has not been harvested.

Curing Stages

Before starting the curing must be ensured that the entire gelantang already available and free plastics, stoves have been checked by doing a test condition sebelurnnya flame, the whole wall oven no cavities, the door can close tightly, pipes are not damaged hollow clan.

There are 4 stages of curing, namely:

1. Penguningan
This biological process is a process of change in leaf color from green to yellow, because the loss of green leaf substance / substances klorophyil to yellow foliage and of degradation of starch into sugar. These changes can occur at 32 s / d of 42 degrees centigrade. This process should be done slowly time required depends on the position of the leaf. Generally lasts for 55 s / d 58 hours. At this beginning all vents closed, either up or down. But when all the leaves are yellow orange colored top vents open 1 / 4, this process is crucial to the results of curing.
2. Binding Colour
If all leaves are colored yellow and orange leaves of both bones of leaves, then it pertiahan-land temperature is raised. At the time this process occurs, then when the leaves are colored green, the leaves will still be colored green, whereas when it is colored yellow to orange then yellow orange curing results. Because at a temperature of 43-52 ° C. This happens binding color. So if the color of leaves in the process has not been sempuna PENGUNINGAN, then do not rush to raise temperatures over 42 ° C. At this stage vents opened gradually, little by little until finally removed entirely. Time needed if running perfectly generally around 18-19 hours.
3. Sheet Drying Leaves
This process aims to reduce the water content in leaves by increasing the temperature of 53-62 ° C. At this time all vents open, because the water that came out of leaf cells would be water vapor, which must be thrown out of the oven so as not to go back to the leaf. The characteristics of this process, the leaves are dry, if held, but the bone still feels wet leaf leaves look wrinkled or curly it takes approximately 30-32 hours.
4. Drying Handles
Drying up performed at a temperature of 63-72 ° C. At this time the water that could dilapas leaf stems will be issued in the early stages of this venting process starts slowly and gradually closed down, to keep the humidity remained at 32% range. The characteristics of this stage can be completed when all the bones are dry leaves, and stems will break when bent and sounds crick. This indicates that this phase goes well 5-8 hours before the process ends, all vents should be closed so the air humidity is maintained. This process normally takes 30-32 hours to never raise the oven temperature above 72 C, because the tobacco will burn.

Similarly, the stages that occur in tobacco curing Virginia Flue Cure. This process should be done with caution because of tobacco control full clan that has been very good growth in the field, the result would be futile if the curing process is not running smoothly. Therefore, for all active should have the oven thermometer to make sure each stage is already running well or not. And also each oven must have a table guidelines and Virginia tobacco curing procedure using Hygrocurometer tool for measuring air temperature and humidity.

Marlboro

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Marlboro is a brand of cigarette made by Philip Morris USA (a branch of Altria) within the US, and by Philip Morris International (now separate from Altria) outside the US. It is famous for its billboard advertisements and magazine ads of the Marlboro Man.

Philip Morris, a London-based cigarette manufacturer, created a New York subsidiary in 1902 to sell several of its cigarette brands, including Marlboro. By 1924 they were advertising Marlboro as a woman's cigarette based on the slogan "Mild As May".

The brand was sold in this capacity until World War II when the brand faltered and was temporarily removed from the market. At the end of the war, three brands emerged that would establish a firm hold on the cigarette market: Camel, Lucky Strike, and Chesterfield. These brands were supplied to US soldiers during the war, creating an instant market upon their return.

During the 1950s Reader's Digest magazine published a series of articles that linked smoking with lung cancer. Phillip Morris, and the other cigarette companies took notice and each began to market filtered cigarettes. The new Marlboro with a filtered end was launched in 1955. In the early 1960s Philip Morris invented "Marlboro Country" and distilled their manly imagery into the rugged cowboys known as the "Marlboro Men."

The brand is named after Great Marlborough Street, the location of its original London Factory. Richmond, Virginia is now the location of the largest Marlboro cigarette manufacturing plant.

Hookah ....Other choice for smoke.

2008-10-21T00:35:00.007+07:00

A hookah is a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) water pipe for smoking. Originating in India, it has gained popularity, especially in the Arab World. A hookah operates by water filtration and indirect heat. It can be used for smoking herbal fruits.

Depending on locality and supply, hookahs may be referred to by many names, often of Arabic, Indian, Turkic, or Persian origin. Narghilè is the name most commonly used in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Albania, Bosnia, Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, although the initial "n" is often dropped in Arabic pronunciation. Narghilè derives from the Persian word nārgil , meaning coconut, and in turn from the Sanskrit nārikela , suggesting that early hookahs were hewn from coconut shells.

Shisha , from the Persian word shīshe , meaning glass, is the common term for the hookah in Egypt and the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf (including Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia), and in Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Somalia and Yemen.

In Iran, hookah is called ghalyūn , ghālyūn , or ghalyān . In India and Pakistan the name most similar to the English hookah is used: huqqa . The terms "hubble-bubble" and "hubbly-bubbly" are also used.

The commonness of the Indian word "hookah" in English is a result of the British Raj, the British dominion of India (1858–1947), when large numbers of expatriate Britons first sampled the water-pipe. William Hickey, shortly after arriving in Kolkata, India, in 1775, wrote in his Memoirs:
“ The most highly-dressed and splendid hookah was prepared for me. I tried it, but did not like it. As after several trials I still found it disagreeable, I with much gravity requested to know whether it was indispensably necessary that I should become a smoker, which was answered with equal gravity, "Undoubtedly it is, for you might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. Here everybody uses a hookah, and it is impossible to get on without" [... I] have frequently heard men declare they would much rather be deprived of their nightly sex than their hookah.

From Wikipedia..

Cigarette Definition ....

2008-10-21T00:24:00.003+07:00

In this world, there are many definition that we can fine about cigarette...

In the below this many example definition that I can find from many sources...

Cigarette is ....

finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking.
a product consumed via smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco, combined with other additives
a minimalist piece of environmental sculpture created by Tony Smith in 1961. The sculpture is over 15 feet tall and made of flat planes of steel in a twisted form.
a thin cylinder of ground or shredded tobacco that is wrapped in paper, lit and smoked.