Big Tobacco has hardly a thing to do with cigars. They are very different concepts and implementations, with a different market. At the very least, skill, cultu

Big Tobacco has hardly a thing to do with cigars. They are very different concepts and implementations, with a different market. At the very least, skill, culture, reasonably honest marketing, and enormously different end products distinguish them. I think most people's opinion of tobacco might change if they observed it start as a plant, be picked and cured, pressed and aged, then simply rolled before their eyes into a cigar. And for those who make the careless assumption that tobacco is evil, they might inquire into products such as Swedish snus, which are processed without heat and undergo minimal fermentation, resulting in a pure tobacco product with negligibly low levels of nitrosamines (the culprit for carcinogens).