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the Spaniards the only mode of smoking was that 

 of twisted rolls of tobacco ; hence the Spaniards 

 adopted this manner, and to this day smoke only 

 cigars and cigarettes. The English, on the contrary, 

 exploited North America, where the pipe reigned 

 supreme, and, as naturally as the Spaniard, adopted 

 that method of smoking. In Central and Southern 

 America, as well as on the island, the cigar or 

 cigarette is still the main form of tobacco ; pipes are 

 indigenous to and common in colder climes. The 

 luxurious cigar and light, airy cigarette accord with 

 the Southern temperament, while the pipe is the 

 natural smoke of the sterner, hardier inhabitants of 

 the colder North. 



The original cigar consisted of tobacco leaves 

 enclosed in a maize leaf. Puros were cigars formed 

 entirely of tobacco with no outer covering. The 

 word ' cigarette ' is quite modern, and applies to 

 paper-enrolled tobacco only. In Cuba, fumar un 

 tabaco is to smoke a cigar. 



Owing to the monopoly of the Spanish colonies 

 and the exclusion therefrom of all foreigners, the 

 practice of smoking cigars or cigarettes was confined 

 to Spain and Portugal until the close of the eighteenth 

 century. Captains Thomas Price and Koet are said 

 to have smoked the twisted leaves of tobacco, or 

 ' segars,' in London during the reign of Elizabeth ; 

 but until the dawn of the present century the pipe 

 was the only mode of drinking tobacco in England. 



Not until about 1790 were cigars introduced into 

 Northern Europe, the first factory being established 

 at Hamburg in 1796. The Peninsular War was the 



