A papirosa (russian: папироса, plural: papirosy) is an implement for

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, a variant of

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s. It consists of a hollow cardboard tube extended by a thin paper tube filled with tobacco.Tricia A. Stark
A Revolutionary Attack on Tobacco: Bolshevik Antismoking Campaigns in the 1920s
Am J Public Health. 2017 November; 107(11): 1711–1717, Tricia Starks, ''Smoking under the Tsars. A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia'', ''Cornell University Press'', 2018, The cardboard tube acts as a

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and is called in Russian as such: russian: мундштук, from German Mund+Stück, literally, " mouthpiece"

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's ''Etymological Dictionary'' claims that the word is borrowed from Polish '' papieros'' for " cigarette", where it is a

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordscigarros". The inner end of the mouthpiece is cut into dents which are bent to keep tobacco from travelling into the mouth. Modern papirosy can also contain a filter inside the mouthpiece. The two paper tubes: the mouthpiece and the tube for tobacco are called together "(papirosa)

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" (russian: Гильза папиросы). Papirosa sleeves may be sold separately to be filled by tobacco of choice using a special device called "stuffing machine" (russian: набивочная машинка); it may also be used for stuffing any kind of

cigarette tube A papirosa (russian: папироса, plural: papirosy) is an implement for tobacco smoking, a variant of cigarettess. It consists of a hollow cardboard tube extended by a Cigarette tube, thin paper tube filled with tobacco.Tricia A. StarkA Revolu ...

s. While smoking, the mouthpiece is usually compressed to create two separate perpendicular flat surfaces, with one of them going into the mouth. Papirosy was a unique Russian form of cigarettes invented in the 19th century. By 1914, 49,5% of all tobacco products produced in Russia was papirosy. It is claimed that

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's favorite tobacco to stuff his

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was from papirosy. It is possible that this is just a legend: the pipe requires a large cut of tobaco, otherwise it burns quickly. Film chronicles show that Stalin smoked cigarettes in a usual way.«Эти сигареты курил Сталин»: репортаж из всероссийского института табака. Что курил сталин Как работает курительная машина
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