They are still sold, but they are called “Filtered Clove Cigars” now and are not as good - among several things: they are harder to draw now, they lost a lot of

They are still sold, but they are called “Filtered Clove Cigars” now and are not as good - among several things: they are harder to draw now, they lost a lot of the characteristic “firecracker” pop (a popping noise that happens as the cloves burn that’s very similar to wood settling in a campfire) and are harsher to smoke. I suspect if one wanted to find them in their original, better form the easiest thing to do would be to import them from Indonesia somehow - the kretek, which is the Indonesian name for the clove cigarette, originated from there and it’s an extremely popular cigarette in Indonesia.