Interesting facts about Clove Cigarettes

Cloves give off a strong, distinctive smell.

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Clove cigarettes, otherwise known as Kreteks, are made by combining cloves and tobacco. This mixture is rolled up in paper with a filter tip. Clove cigarettes, from a design sense, look a lot like tobacco cigarettes.

Export Issues

1. Clove cigarettes are a cultural phenomenon that originated in Indonesia, where they are still popular. Indonesia is also the cigarettes' largest exporter. However, recent legislation in the United States has outlawed their sale, and companies are currently trying exploit a loophole by offering cloves as filter-tipped cigars.

Agricultural Preparation

2. The clove part of the cigarette grows on a clove tree, specifically in unopened flower buds. Once picked, the buds must be dried out. Traditionally, Indonesian clove growers would lay the buds in the sun before mixing it with dried tobacco.

Rolling

3. Once dried, tobacco and clove alike are brought to a factory, where they are fed into machines that cut and shred both. Once mixed in the right proportions, they are rolled. Traditionally, kreteks are handmade in Indonesia by people using wooden rollers. Finally, kreteks are packed into boxes, which, in turn, are packed into cartons and shipped.

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How to Keep Cigarettes Fresh

It seems that the cigarettes price goes up every day. Buying cigarettes in bulk helps defray some of the rising costs but presents the problem of keeping cigarettes fresh. Fortunately, a few steps help you keep cigarettes fresh for much longer. Here are some suggestions how to keep the cigarettes fresh:

1. Keep cigarettes in their sealed packaging after you buy them, since the seal and foil that the cigarettes come wrapped in are the first and best method for keeping your smokes in good condition.
   
   
2. Put the cigarettes in a bag in the fridge for short-term storage or, if you want to keep the cigarettes fresh for up to 6 months, you can place them in the freezer. Be aware, though, that putting the cigarettes in the freezer may dry them out.
   
   
3. Buy a cigarette pack holder that can keep your cigarette packs from getting wet or crushed as you carry a pack around in your pocket or a bag. Check out all kinds of cigarette pack holders to find nicely designed items that keep cigarettes fresh.
   
   
4. Store the cigarettes in a dark room and place a dehumidifier in the room to keep your cigarettes at optimal quality for a long time. Monitor the temperature and humidity level so that the cigarettes remain in a good environment.
   
   
5. Attempt to keep cigarettes for less than 6 months since keeping opened tobacco for longer than this period results in stale and even moldy cigarettes that taste bad and can be more harmful to your health than fresh cigarettes.
   
   So, you can follow some of these steps if you really want to keep your cigarettes fresh, or you can buy these as often as you need and don't bother at all. Do as you think is better for you!!! 

Cinema, smoking in films

Through most of the 20th Century, movies with characters puffing away on cigarettes helped make smoking a popular, and in some circles, necessary status symbol. In the 1940s’ and 1950s’, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and scores of other established Hollywood stars always had a smoke in hand at some point in their films. Decades later, James Bond and Superman’s girl friend, Lois Lane, puffed away in front of audiences filled with many an impressionable teenager.

Not surprisingly, moviegoers of all ages tended to associate cigarette smoking with Glamour, vigorous youth, sexiness, wealth, and occasionally rebelliousness.

As the major adverse health effects of tobacco have become widely publicized over the past 30 years, smoking has declined both on and off the screen in the United States. Nevertheless, 43 million Americans (many of them youngsters) remain addicted to the evil weed and 450,000 a year die prematurely from it. Despite efforts to diminish the presence and discredit the allure of smoking in films, 54 percent of movies with parental guidance ratings still have smoking in their narratives.

As long as smoking is legal, it is unconstitutional to ban the practice from appearing on the silver screen. Nonetheless, films containing smoking can still be rated “R”, be preceded by anti-smoking messages, and be prohibited from displaying actual brands and receiving compensation for such actions. Many jurisdictions have adopted these measures, again with middling results in regard to discouraging smoking.