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The pleasure of smoking for connoisseurs and bon vivants: tobacco products from Heinemann

Tobacco has fascinated people for centuries. From its once ritual significance among the indigenous peoples of North and South America, this nicotine-based plant became a European ornamental plant, was a medicinal product for pains and infections and, finally, the international luxury product that it is today. Whether it is sweet and aromatic as pipe tobacco, modern in the form of cigarettes or rolling tobacco, as snuff or chewing tobacco for “non-smokers” or, of course, in its most sophisticated form as cigars and cigarillos – discover the world of high-quality tobacco products with Heinemann. In the Heinemann Shop, you will find a carefully assembled selection of top international brands from Marlboro and Lucky Strike to Cohiba and Winston.

What is tobacco? Five things you didn't know about tobacco:

• Tobacco is a nightshade plant: a close relative of the potato, but not as healthy. Both plants have flowers with five petals and large leaves, evidence of their close relationship. This makes tobacco biologically related to potatoes, peppers and aubergines.
• Forbidden pleasure: in the 17th century, it was forbidden to enjoy tobacco as the church denounced smoking tobacco and taking snuff as immoral pleasures. Tobacco could only be sold by apothecaries.
• Tobacco used to be a cure-all: after the tobacco plant had been imported to Europe in the early 16th century, it was considered to have great healing properties. As a brew, powder or in the form of compresses, tobacco was thought to heal stomach and intestinal complaints, soothe pains and even defeat the plague.
• Luxury tobacco: the most expensive cigars ever sold are the Cohiba Behike, which were manufactured in a limited edition of 100 boxes of 40 cigars each in 2006. The cigars, rolled by a master hand and numbered, cost 375 euros each.

Tobacco to go: without industrialization, the cigarette would never have made its mark. Everyday life became faster-paced and more demanding, so there was no longer time to enjoy a cigar or a pipe – people preferred enjoying a smoke that was quick and of good value.

Pleasure and conviviality: How is tobacco consumed?

Nowadays, all around the world, the cigarette is the most popular tobacco product, either as a ready-made filter cigarette or as a self-rolled cigarette made of finely cut tobacco. But tobacco also offers a wide range of other intensive taste experiences for connoisseurs:

• Cigars and cigarillos: they are the most original and the most sophisticated way to enjoy tobacco – rolled from whole or cut tobacco leaves, without any additives or a filter. The best-known cigars are by Cuban brands like Romeo y Julieta, Partagas and Cohiba.
• Pipe tobacco: the pipe is the embodiment of cultivated tobacco enjoyment. The Netherlands and Scandinavia in particular have a distinct pipe-smoking culture with a wealth of sweet and aromatically fruity pipe tobaccos.
• Chewing tobacco, quid or snus, as it is called in Scandinavia, is a pressed and strongly aromatic tobacco which is held in the mouth or chewed. Like snuff tobacco, chewing tobacco is not smoked, so it can even be enjoyed in smoke-free spaces.
• Tobacco heaters, also known as "Smoke Free Products" such as IQOS are the modern form of tobacco consumption. Small tobacco sticks are not burned, but only heated at temperatures of around 350°C, which reduces the formation of substances that are hazardous to health.

Buy your favorite tobacco goods from Heinemann, or try out something new from the wide-ranging Heinemann selection.  Cigarette, Cigar and tobacco as well as spirits, fragrances, sweets and much more can be conveniently ordered online in advance and picked up ready-packed for you from the Heinemann Shop at the airport on the day of your departure