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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Metastasis Rev. 2017 Sep;36(3):411–423. doi: 10.1007/s10555-017-9689-6

Table 1.

Different forms of tobacco products. Table from IARC Monograph [4].

Cigarette Any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or other non-tobacco material; filter-tipped or untipped; approximately 8 mm in diameter, 70–120 mm in length.
Any roll of tobacco wrapped in leaf tobacco or in any other substance containing tobacco.
Cigar Types: little cigars, small cigars (‘cigarillos’), regular cigars, premium cigars.
Some little cigars are filter tipped and are shaped like cigarettes.
Regular cigars are up to 17 mm in diameter, 110–150 mm in length.
Bidi Hand-rolled Indian cigarette; sun-dried temburni leaf rolled into a conical shape together with flaked tobacco and secured with a thread.
Chutta Hand-rolled cigarette used for reverse smoking primarily by women in India.
Kretek Small cigar containing tobacco (approximately 60%), cloves and cocoa. The burning blend gives a characteristic flavor and ‘honey’ taste to the smoke.