In a message dated 8/30/2005 3:24:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the book, there is a lady who in private smokes cigarillos, and i just wondered, did cigarillos (imported from Spain) really excist? I always have a problem when i smoke, because my clay pipe breaks during my travellings and they are very fragile. If this was true about cigarillos, perhaps i could use this in stead? It was my understanding that cigars/cigarillos were developed in the very late 18th or early 19th century, but I haven't seen exact documentation. Just did a Google!, and cigars seem to have first been made in Spain in the early 18th century, and spread from there after the Peninsular Wars (1808-1814). So it seems possible, but not likely, that the woman was smoking them. Ann Wass _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
