A Tiparillo is a shorter, thinner, and milder version of a cigar with a plastic tip. It is manufactured by the General Cigar Company.[1] The name Tiparillo, a portmanteau of tip and cigarillo, was trademarked on July 3, 1961 by the Pinkerton Tobacco Company of Owensboro, Kentucky.

Tiparillo cigars as seen on an advertisement from 1967.

Postwar cigar makers sought to transform the image of their product to attract younger smokers and women who preferred cigarettes. The Tiparillo was developed in response to this desire.[2]

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  1. ^ p.177 Hochstein, Peter Cigars and Other Passions: The Biography of Edgar M. Cullman Trafford Publishing, 30/03/2010
  2. ^ Fox, Margalit (30 August 2011). "Edgar M. Cullman Sr., Who Helped Turn Cigars into Objects of Desire, is Dead at 93". The New York Times.