# Tiparillo

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{{Short description|Shorter, thinner, and milder version of a cigar with a plastic tip}}
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thumb|295x295px|Tiparillo cigars as seen on an advertisement from 1967.
A '''Tiparillo''' is a shorter, thinner, and milder version of a [cigar](/source/cigar) with a plastic tip. It is manufactured by the [General Cigar Company](/source/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](/source/cigarillo)'', was trademarked on July 3, 1961 by the Pinkerton Tobacco Company of [Owensboro](/source/Owensboro%2C_Kentucky), [Kentucky](/source/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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