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| History of the Cigar |
Cigar History
History of the Cigar.
The indigenous inhabitants of the islands of Mesoamerica have smoked cigars since as early as the 10th century, as evidenced by the discovery of a ceramic vessel in Guatemala. The vessel was decorated with the painted figure of a man smoking a primitive cigar.
The first modern observation of the cigar occurred with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. On October 28, 1492 Columbus noted in his log reports that the natives of San Salvador burned and inhaled the leaves of a local plant (tobacco wrapped in maize husks). Rodrigo de Xeres, a lieutenant on Columbus's expedition became the first European to smoke the Indian's form of a cigar. Rodrigo smoked on every subsequent day of the expedition.
The Indians in South and Central America did not smoke cigars as we know them today. The natives smoked tobacco wrapped in maize, palm or other native vegetation. The Spanish created the cigar industry, and are given credit for creating the modern cigar.
The Origin of the word cigar comes from the native language of the ancient Mayans. The Mayans called the cigar a "Ciq-Sigan" which the Spanish word "Cigarro" is derived from. The New English Dictionary of 1735 called the cigar a "seegar", and was later adapted into the modern word "cigar".
In the 19th century, cigar smoking was common, while cigarettes were still comparatively rare. The cigar business was an important industry, and factories employed many people before mechanized manufacturing of cigars became practical. Many modern cigars, as a matter of prestige, are still rolled by hand: some boxes bear the phrase totalmente a mano, "totally by hand" or hecho a mano, "made by hand".
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Created on 06/27/2008 08:03 AM by mikalsan
Updated on 03/22/2009 04:49 AM by mikalsan
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