{{Short description|Shorter, thinner, and milder version of a cigar with a plastic tip}} {{Advert|date=April 2022}} thumb|295x295px|Tiparillo cigars as seen on an advertisement from 1967. A '''Tiparillo''' is a shorter, thinner, and milder version of a cigar with a plastic tip. It is manufactured by the General Cigar Company.<ref>p.177 Hochstein, Peter ''Cigars and Other Passions: The Biography of Edgar M. Cullman'' Trafford Publishing, 30/03/2010</ref> The name Tiparillo, a portmanteau of ''tip'' and ''cigarillo'', was trademarked on July 3, 1961 by the Pinkerton Tobacco Company of Owensboro, Kentucky.
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.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Fox |first1=Margalit |date=30 August 2011 |title=Edgar M. Cullman Sr., Who Helped Turn Cigars into Objects of Desire, is Dead at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/business/edgar-m-cullman-sr-dies-at-93-helped-broaden-cigars-appeal.html?_r=0 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
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Category:Cigar brands Category:Products introduced in 1961