TheIKNPost.com — “The cigar lifestyle still exists, it’s just that interest in it is decreasing because people don’t smoke or smoke in mall restaurants,” said Iwan, let’s call it that.
Cigars have been a symbol of pleasure for a long time. That’s why, there is a classic impression that appears when lovers suck it.
Recently, cigars have become a trend, no longer just a companion for free time. The cigar community began to develop.
In fact, there are many stories embroidered behind this cigar. Before the fire sparks it and spreads its distinctive aroma.
There is a story about Fidel Castro’s “madness for cigars”
Castro and cigars are like bees and honey. I don’t know whether this is an added value or whether it is a weak point for the leader of the Cuban revolution.
In fact, the cigar he loved so much could bring disaster to him at any time. Operation Mongoose, carried out by the central intelligence agency of the United States (US), aka CIA, should have made the hairs on Castro’s neck stand up.
The world community generally knows how much the United States government has hated Castro for generations.
All kinds of methods were designed to get rid of the bearded man. Not just an attempt to remove him from the soft chair of leadership of the country whose capital is Havana, but if possible, wipe him off the face of the earth.
From Operation Mongoose, the cunning mind of the superpower emerged.
Castro’s addiction to cigars prompted the CIA to smuggle in cigars that would explode as soon as Castro exhaled the smoke of his Havana tobacco.
Unbelieveable. A trick that is not unlike the rottenness of Brutus stabbing Caesar.
Perhaps, because Castro knows cigars so well, down to their aroma and fold lines, that he remains in charge of Cuba, until now – while the US President has changed 10 times. What would happen if he chose the wrong cigar which could explode and cost him his life?
Castro and cigars are also what made Alina Fernandes – the daughter of Castro and Natalia Revuelta’s affair – remember her father.
“What I remember is that he was shy, had a big body, and a face full of beard. “A cigar was always tucked in his lips,” said Alina, remembering the time when she was 10 years old and had not yet left for Miami, USA.
Another dramatic story also happened. John F. Kennedy as the main actor. It was the US President who signed a trade embargo on Cuba in 1962, which is still in effect.
The funny thing is, before writing his pen, the young president ordered 1,000 Havana cigars through his aide, Pierre Salinger.
“When I arrived with his order of 2,000 cigars, Kennedy greeted me warmly. “Then he took a piece of paper from his desk and wrote something that said there was an embargo on Cuba,” Salinger told the magazine L’amateur de Cigare.
Even when Bill Clinton was still in office, he had to swallow a bitter smile when German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder offered him a cigar that the Minister of Development, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, had brought from a trip to Cuba.
Schroeder jokingly said, “I have a cigar belonging to Fidel (Castro) in my hand which I will give to you.” Of course, Clinton could only “smile politely.”
However, not all of the US’s rigidity with cigars is the case. In April 1982, to celebrate the successful third flight of the space shuttle Columbia, NASA officials in Houston rejoiced by handing out cigars to everyone in the control room.
IN THE BEGINNING OF COLOMBUS, SIH: A cigar is a roll of tobacco with variations in size that determine its name.
Namely short small (cigarillo), long slender (panetela), and big fat (corona) – inseparable from the adventures of Christopher Columbus when he landed in Tobago, a region in America in 1492.
He found native people sucking, chewing, or sucking – after burning the ends – rolls of tobacco leaves.
Tobacco or tobacco (from the name of the country of Tobago) which was the basic ingredient for cigars, Columbus then spread it to the Spanish and Portuguese, and he was credited with transmitting “tobacco culture”.
In further developments, in 1930 the cigar industry began to emerge which was already using tobacco rolling machines. And, then Cuba became popular as a great cigar producer in the world.
Almost all cigars consist of three parts, each part using a different type of tobacco.
The largest part is the filler tobacco leaves that form the body of the cigar. Then, it is compressed and tied with binding tobacco leaves, before covering with tobacco leaves, aka wrapping deblaad.
Well, even though Cuban tobacco is famous as a cigar filling and binding tobacco. According to literature and encyclopedias, Sumatran tobacco remains the highest standard for cigar wrapping tobacco leaves (cigar wrappers).
And, the best in the world still comes from tobacco plantations in a small area on the east coast of North Sumatra, Deli.
Deli tobacco is no more than 140 years old, since it was first planted by Jacobus Niewenhuis in 1864, on land on the west bank of the Deli River which is famously known as Titipapan.
The Dutch plantation staff planted the tobacco seeds and four months later he harvested 50 bales of dried tobacco leaves which were sent directly to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, at a price of 48 cents per 0.5 kg.
Then, several plantation companies also started opening new plantations. In 1889 Deli Maatschappij was founded. Since then, tobacco plantations have not only been in Deli, but have expanded to Binjai.
https://supertivi.com/nasib-tembakau-deli/
Indeed, what, anyway What’s special about this cigar from Deli tobacco?
Light the lisong, then inhale – don’t inhale – then blow out the smoke. The aroma and taste are very distinctive, because the flat and elastic leaves make the burning evenly distributed and only leave white ash on the burnt marks.
It’s not just Deli tobacco that is famous. Cigars made by the Regional Company (PD) Tarumartani, Yogyakarta, have also traveled abroad.
The company once produced around 10–16 million cigarettes per year. And, 70% of them are marketed to the US, the rest for domestic consumption.
From these results, Tarumartani’s profit reached IDR 700 billion. Cigar history records that Tarumartani is the only PD in Indonesia that produces cigars, apart from the production of several cigarette companies such as Djarum and Wismilak.
BEAUTIFUL NAMES: Now, around the world has spread around 1,000 brands of cigars with very varying prices, and around 90% of them are absorbed by the US market.
“Beautiful” names are also carried on tobacco rolls, including Romeo Y Julieta, Hoyo de Monterrey, Cohiba, Montecristo, Cuaba, El Rey Del Mundo, Partagas, La Gloria Cubana, Punch, Santa Damiana, Arturo Fuante, Bolivar, and Davidoff . This is of course apart from Indonesian products, including those labeled Adipati and Ramayana.
When the heart is captivated, any path will be made. That’s what an anonymous Asian person did who dared to pay 23,000 Swiss francs (US$16,400) for a box containing 25 rare Cuban “Trinidad” cigars packed in a sandalwood box, at an auction in Geneva in 1997.
Christie’s auctioneers said the price of 920 Swiss francs (US$660) for a cigar measuring 19 centimeters long was a new record.
Just so you know, “Trinidad” decades ago was only created and sucked up by Castro.
Although, the US National Cancer Institute once “fatwa” that smoking cigars cannot be considered safer than smoking.
Then it was also stated that smoking cigars every day can cause cancer of the lips, tongue, mouth, esophagus, larynx, lungs, coronary heart disease and pancreatic cancer.
Ironically, cigar sales in the US have increased steadily by 50% since 1993.
It cannot be denied either, if there is an opinion that chatting seems to be able to raise social levels and lifestyle.
The triggers can be various arguments, especially when Hollywood stars say they like to chat.
Not to mention their beautiful and handsome faces with cigars tucked between their lips or held in their fingers plastered on the faces of famous media, then the cigars are also very popular.
The British Prime Minister of the 1940s and 1950s, Winston Churchill, never gave up cigars. In fact, his name was immortalized for a cigar with a length of 7 centimeters.
This is not an exaggeration to pin on the fat man who was a World War I figure who was knighted, sir.
Why not, he has smoked around 300,000 cigars. Not only Churchill, Chicago crime king, Al Capone, always appeared to be chatting even though he was planning his criminal tactics.
And, now it is developing all over the world too Cigars Society, a gathering of cigar connoisseurs. This roll of tobacco is not only enjoyed by men, it is even starting to be popular with women, for example Demi Moore and Claudia Schiffer, just to name an example.
The taste, aroma and pleasure of a cigar rises, as the smoke rises. That’s the cigar.
Inan Andryanto (old dock)
