Cherokee Turkish Bold

Back in May, I reviewed Cherkee Mellow Blend Pipe Tobacco in Cherokee Tobacco: An Exceptional Value and found it quite satisfactory. Recently, I tried Cherokee Turkish Bold and it struck me as perhaps the best value priced, pipe cut tobacco blend that I have used to make hand rolled cigarettes. This blend is not harsh, yet it is strong enough to suit American smokers. I found that its flavor resembles that of a Camel and it is a good smoke, with or without a filter plug. The folks in South Boston, Virginia seem to have knocked the ball out of the park with Cherokee Turkish Bold and I highly recommend it.

Cherokee Tobacco: An Exceptional Value

Lately, I have been rolling cigarettes with Cherokee Mellow Blend Premium Pipe Tobacco produced by the Cherokee Tobacco Company of South Boston, Va. With Top 70mm papers, I find this makes a quite satisfactory non-filtered cigarette of exceptional value. Locally, this tobacco is available for $15.99 per pound and Top cigarette papers are currently $1.29 per one hundred. As a rule of thumb, six ounces of tobacco produces around two hundred cigarettes which is the equivalent of a carton. Thus, a carton of non-filtered cigarettes rolled with Cherokee tobacco costs $8.57. If filtered cigarettes are desired, top cigarette plugs are available locally for $1.29 per one hundred and this would increase the cost per carton to $11.15. The Cherokee Tobacco Company has a website (http://www.cherokeetobacco.com) but it is apparently under construction following an officious and unreasonable attack levied by the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/ucm237506.htm.