Cohiba Cigars, The Cubans Step Brother

Cohiba cigars are painstakingly crafted in the Dominican Republic and took over six years to develop. The rich and dark wrapper is devised of a leaf that is grown in Cameroon. The Cohiba cigars smooth draw is due to special filler leaves grown right in the Dominican Republic itself.

Cohiba is a native word of the Caribbean which simply means cigar. The Dominican Cohiba cigar is the only type of Cohiba cigar and also cigarettes that can be purchased legally in the United States of America.

Due to the relevance the Cuban government gave to the Cohiba cigar, it rapidly became on of the most wanted cigars in the world. The only distributor of these Dominican made Cohiba's is General Cigars here in the United States.

The look of the cigars consists of two thick black stripes on the top and bottom of the band. The rest of the band is of white with the name Cohiba in black bold letters. One signature trait that General Cigars did, and consequently coined the term "Cohiba Red Dot" is they put a red dot inside the O of Cohiba. As you may know, this is where the "Cohiba Red Dot" name came from.

History developments of tobacco

Tobacco had already long been used in the Americas when European settlers arrived and

introduced the practice to Europe, where it became popular. At high doses, tobacco can become hallucinogenic ; accordingly, Native Americans never used the drug recreationally. Instead, it was often consumed as an entheogen; among some tribes, this was done only by experienced shamans or medicine men. Eastern North American tribes would carry large amounts of tobacco in pouches as a readily accepted trade item, and would often smoke it in pipes, either in defined ceremonies that were considered sacred, or to seal a bargain, and they would smoke it at such occasions in all stages of life, even in childhood. It is believed that tobacco is a gift from the Creator and that the exhaled tobacco smoke carries one's thoughts and prayers to heaven.

Popularization
Following the arrival of the Europeans, tobacco became increasingly popular as a trade item. It fostered the economy for the southern United States until it was replaced by cotton. Following the American civil war, a change in demand and a change in labor force allowed inventor James Bonsack to create a machine which automated cigarette sale production.

This increase in production allowed tremendous growth in the tobacco industry until the scientific revelations of the mid-1900s.

Contemporary
Following the scientific revelations of the mid-1900s, tobacco became condemned as a health hazard, and eventually became encompassed as a cause for cancer, as well as other respiratory and circulatory diseases. This led to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) which settled the lawsuit in exchange for a combination of yearly payments to the states and voluntary restrictions on advertising and marketing of tobacco products.

In the 1970s, Brown & Williamson cross-bred a strain of tobacco to produce Y1. This strain of tobacco contained an unusually high amount of nicotine, nearly doubling its content from 3.2-3.5% to 6.5%. In the 1990s, this prompted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use this strain as evidence that tobacco companies were intentionally manipulating the nicotine content of cigarettes.

In 2003, in response to growth of tobacco use in developing countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) successfully rallied 168 countries to sign the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The Convention is designed to push for effective legislation and its enforcement in all countries to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco. This led to the development of tobacco cessation products.