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A blunt made from a Dutch Master cigar using the leafing method
A blunt made from a Dutch Master cigar using the leafing method

A blunt is a cigar which is wider than a cigarillo and not quite as wide as a traditional cigar. A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented Tobacco which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth A cigarillo ( Spanish for "little cigar" pronounced "see-gah-ree-yoh" is a short narrow Cigar. These cigars typically consist of two main parts; the inner leaf, which is similar to a cigarette rolling paper, except it is made of tobacco, and a thicker outer leaf which is rolled around the inner leaf in a spiral. A cigarette ( French "small Cigar " from cigar + -ette) is a product consumed through Smoking and manufactured Rolling papers are small sheets rolls or leaves of Paper which are sold for rolling one's own Cigarettes Tobacco is an Agricultural product recognized as an addictive drug processed from the fresh Leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. In most commercially available blunts, the "leaves" are not actual tobacco leaves but rather paper made from tobacco pulp.

Blunts get their name from their 'broad or rounded tip', and were named as such in the 1800s to differentiate them from other cigars with a tapered, pointed tip. [1]

References

  1. ^ about.com - A Taste of Cigar History

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