Black & Mild is a pipe tobacco cigar

Cigar

A cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, and the Eastern...

 brand, produced by John Middleton Co., a tobacco company in Limerick, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. As of November 2007, Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris

Philip Morris USA

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 purchased John Middleton, Inc.

Black & Mild are sold with a plastic or wood tip, filter tip, untipped, or in a shorter version called a Fast Break, which is about half of the size of a regular Black & Mild. They are shaped like a cigarillo

Cigarillo

A cigarillo is a short, narrow cigar. Unlike cigarettes, cigarillos are wrapped not in paper but in whole-leaf tobacco. Cigarillos can be found for purchase alone or in packs, and are often made without filters...

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Black & Milds are sold in numerous different varieties, including original, Mild, Fastbreak, apple, wine, FT (Filter Tip), wood tip, royale, and cream, which is a replacement of the older, Dutch-style Black & Mild Vanilla.

The company has recently come out with the slogan, "Tastes great! Smells great!" due to the sweet smell produced by the smoke.

Varieties

Black & Mild cigars are available in single cigars, in packs of 5 or in boxes of 25 unless noted.
Black & Mild cigars are sold in the following varieties:

• Original
• Apple
• Cream
• Cherry
• Fast Break (shorter) (packs of 6 and boxes of 25)
• FT (Filter Tip) (packs of 7 and 10 and boxes of 25)
• Mild
• Royale
• Wine
• Gold & Mild
• Wood Tip Original
• Wood Tip Royale
• Wood Tip Wine

Cigarillos

Black & Mild cigarillos are available in single cigars, 2-packs, and packs of 5.
Black & Mild cigarillos are untipped, unlike the other Black & Mild cigars. Flavors are:

• Sweets
• Classic
• Wine