Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1910 — Why Cigars Become Unrolled. [ARTICLE]

Why Cigars Become Unrolled.

It is common to hear men complain of poorly made cigars, but it is not always because a cigar is Indifferently or badly made that the wrapper curls up and comes off. Much oftener this comes from the cigar having been rolled by a maker’s left hand and later smoked from the hand of a right-hand-ed man. All cigarmakers must use both hands equally well, and economy both in time and material is the prevailing rule in tobacco factories. When a piece of tobacco is cut for the wrapper it is cut on the bias and rolled from left to right on the filler, and at the same time and by the other hand the remaining pieces are used, being neoessarily rolled in the opposite way. For this rbason the man who holds a cigar in his right hand which always gives a few twists during the course of a smoke rubs the wrapper the wrong way, and easily enough it becomes loosened.