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AGRONOMISTS

 

LEONCIO CRUZ MONTERO

Investigador Programa Nacional de Investigaciones en Tabaco

Ingeniero Agrónomo de la Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.

Diplomado en el cultivo del tabaco negro en la Universidad de Pinar del Río, Cuba.

 

Dr. LEONEL FERMIN DIAZ BOMNIN, CA.

Encargado del Programa Nacional de Investigaciones en Tabaco del IDIAF

Ingeniero Agrónomo de la Universidad de Pinar del Río, Cuba.

Doctor en Ciencias Agrícolas

 

 

 

BOOKS

 

AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF POST-REVOLUTION HAVANA CIGARS

Min Ron NEE

1995

 

ASHES TO ASHES

Richard Kluger

Vintage Books  1997

 

CIGAR AFICIONADO’S WORLD OF CIGARS

Marvin R. Shanken, Editor

Running Press & M. Shanken Communications, Inc.  1996

 

CIGAR FAMILY:  A 100 Year Journey In The Cigar Industry

Stanford J. Newman with James V. Miller

J.C. Newman Cigar Company   1999

 

CUBAN CIGAR TOBACCO: Why Cuban Cigars Are The World’s Best

Eumelio Espino Marrero

T.F.H. Publications, Inc.  1996

 

GROWING ORCHIDS

Brian and Wilma Rittershausen

Annes Publishing Limited  2000

 

HABANO EL REY

Adriano Martinez Rius

Epicur Publicaciones S.L.  1999

 

LE CIGARE

Eric Deschodt & Philippe Morane

Editions Du Regard  1996

 

LO LLAMAREMOS COHIBA: Leyenda De Un Placer

Adargelio Garrido De La Grana

Habanos S.A.  1997

 

NO SMOKING

Luc Sante

Assouline Publishing Inc.  2004

 

PROUST WAS A NEUROSCIENTIST

Jonah Lehrer

Houghton Mifflin Company  2007

 

RARE SMOKE:  The Ultimate Guide To Pipe Collecting

Richard Carleton Hacker

Autumngold Publishing  1999

 

SMOKE: A Global History of Smoking

edited by:  Sander L. Gilman & Zhou Xun

Reaktion Books Ltd.  2004

 

THE ART OF THE CIGAR LABEL

Joe Davidson

The Wellfleet Press  1989

 

THE BOOK OF PIPES & TOBACCO

Carl Ehwa, Jr.

Random House, Inc.  1974

 

THE CIGAR COMPANION: A Connoisseur’s Guide

Anwer Bati & Simon Chase

Quintet Publishing plc  1995

 

THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY

Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.

Alpha/Penguin Group USA  2003

 

THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN

Arthur S. Bard, M.D. and Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D.

Alpha/Penguin Group USA 2002

 

THE CONNOISSEUR'S BOOK OF THE CIGAR

Zino Davidoff

McGraw-Hill 1984

 

THE GOURMET GUIDE TO CIGARS

Paul B.K. Garmirian, Ph.D.

Cedar Publications  1990

 

THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CIGARS

Bernard Le Roy & Maurice Szafran

Harold Starke Publishers Limited 1993  (translated from La Grande Histoire du Cigare © Flammarion 1989)

 

THE JOURNEY OF THE HAVANA CIGAR

Antonio Núňez Jiménez

T.F.H. Publications, Inc.  1988

 

THE ULTIMATE PIPE BOOK

Richard Carleton Hacker

Autumngold Publishing  1984

 

TOBACCO: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization

Iain Gately

Grove Press  2001

 

TOBACCO:  Tropical Agricultural Series

B.C. Akehurst

Longmans Green and Co. Ltd  1968

 

YOU CAN'T TASTE A PICKLE WITH YOUR EAR

Harriet Ziefert and pictures by Amanda Haley

Blue Apple Books  2002

 

 

JOURNALS

 

Agricultural History

Brand, Donald D.  "The Origin and Early Distribution of New World Cultivated Plants".  13:2  (1939),  109-117.

 

American Anthropologist

Dixon, Ronald B.  "Words for Tobacco in American Indian Languages".  New Series  23:1  (1921),  19-49.

 

Heiser Jr., Charles B.  "Cultivated Plants and Cultural Diffusion in Nuclear America".  New Series.  67:4  (1965),  930-949.

 

Lewis, Gilbert.  "The Beginning of Civilization in America".  New Series.  49:1  (1947), 1-24.

 

American Antiquity

Haberman, Thomas.  "Evidence for Aboriginal Tobaccos in Eastern North America".  49:2 (April 1984):  269-287.

 

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Whitmore, Thomas M. and B.L. Turner II.  "Landscapes of Cultivation in Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Conquest".  82:3.  The Americas Before and After 1492:  Current Geographical Research  (1992),  402-425.

 

Geographical Review

Sauer, Carl O.  "Indian Food Production in the Caribbean".  71:3  (1981),  272-280.

 

Journal of Anthropological Research

Black, Peter Weston.  "The Anthropology of Tobacco Use:  Tobian Data and Theoretical Issues".  40:4 (Winter 1984):  475-503.

 

Journal of the History of Sexuality

Elferink, Jan G.R.  "Aphrodisiac Use in Pre-Columbian Aztec and Inca Cultures".  9:1/2 (January-April, 2000), 25-36.

 

Leonardo

Gessert, George.  "Flowers of Human Presence:  Effects of Esthetic Values on the Evolution of Ornamental Plants".  26:1  (1993)  37-44.

 

The Journal of American Folklore

Kell, Katharine T.  "Tobacco in Folk Cures in Western Society".  78:038  (1965),  99-114.

 

World Archaeology

Stahl, Peter W.  "Halucinatory Imagery and the Origin of Early South American Figurine Art".  18:1  Perspectives in World Archaeology  (1986),  134-150.

 

 

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

 

Cardiff University

Professor Tim Jacob

Smell Research Laboratory

www.cardiff.ac.uk

 

Encyclopedia Britannica

www.britannica.com

 

Macalaster College

www.macalester.edu

 

MedicineNet.com

www.medicinenet.com

 

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

www.m-w.com

 

National Institutes of Health

www.nih.gov

 

Professional Friends of Wine

www.winepros.org

 

Scientific American

www.sciam.com

 

Wine Spectator Online

www.winespectator.com

 

Wine Spectator School

www.winespectatorschool.com

 

U.S. Food & Drug Administration

www.fda.gov

 

 

PERIODICALS

 

CIGAR AFICIONADO Magazine

M. Shanken Communications, Inc.

 

CIGAR MAGAZINE Magazine

Cigar Magazine Inc.

 

SMOKE Magazine

Lockwood Publications, Inc.

 

SMOKESHOP Magazine

Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc.

 

TOBACCONIST Magazine

SpecComm International Inc.

 

 

RESEARCH & STUDIES

 

Differential Neural Responses Evoked by Orthonasal versus Retronasal Odorant Perception in Humans

Dana M. Small (Yale University & The John B. Pierce Laboratory), Johannes C. Gerber (University of Dresden Medical School), Erica Mak (The John B. Pierce Laboratory), and Thomas Hummel (University of Dresden Medical School)

Neuron, Vol. 47, 593-605   August 18, 2005, Copyright 2005 by Elsevier Inc.

 

The Influence of Saliva on pH Changes in the Mouth

Y. Suzuki, and S. Watanabe, Meikai University, Sakado, Japan

 

 

WORKS CITED

 

 

Cabrera, Brian J.  “Cigarette beetle-Lasioderma serricorne F.”  December, 2005.

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/stored/cigarette_beetle.htm
 
Sheftell, Jason.  “The Last Word on Tobacco Beetles.”  April 1, 1999. 

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/cigar/CA_features/CA_feature_Basic_Template/0,2344,231,00.html

 

 

 

ORGANIZATIONS

 

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PHOTO CREDITS

 

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JLA, CMT 

 

 

VIDEO CREDITS

 

Tobacconist University®

JLA, CMT

R. Sloane Franklin, CRT

Kathryn Bellando, CRT

 

 

Acknowledgements

 

The Founder of TU would like to thank many individuals without whom Tobacconist University® would not exist: Starting with F.P. for his love, character, and conviction; J.O.P., the greatest cigar maker and mentor I have ever known; Every Tobacconist, good and bad, that I have ever met;  Immense gratitude goes to every Certified Tobacconist (past and present) who has contributed to the content of this course and their own, as well as the public’s education;  And finally, to the thousands of customers and luxury Tobacco lovers who teach and challenge us every day.



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