How to Make A Cigar

In the beginning tobacco leaves are green, they only get their typical color once they are dried in special huts like the one we are now – tells the man who is about to show us how to make a cigar

He starts showing how many tobacco seeds might be held in one hand; more than 50,000 just like in this case

First step is to make the leaf as plain as possible and then tearing away that sort of filament that is the backbone of the leaf itsele

Then you have to cut it in two, first with the hands and then with the knife

The you have to cut one half in tiny pieces and then put these pieces into the other half. Now you can finally roll the outer half of the leaf.

You obtain a rough, first version of the cigar that has to be refined by cutting the outer part of it.

You have to keep on rolling it until you obtain a really well formed cigar like this

So now, anybody want to have a first try on the newly made cigar? It is not easy to light it up and keep it lit, you know

You are missing something guys, you cannot say I didn’t tell you…