Cheroot

Since cheroots do not taper, they are inexpensive to roll mechanically, and their low cost makes them popular.

They are often associated with Myanmar in literature: 'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green, An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat – jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen, An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot, An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot: My brother was unlike us in some things, Sahib.

He was fond of the sharab called 'Whisky' and of dogs; he drank smoke from the cheroot after the fashion of the Sahib-log and not from the hookah nor the bidi; he wore boots; he struck with the clenched fist when angered; and never did he squat down upon his heels nor sit cross-legged upon the ground.

Yea—and in his last fight, ere he was hanged, he killed more men with his long Khyber knife, single-handed against a mob, than ever did lone man before with cold steel in fair fight.Apparently, cheroot smoking was also associated with resistance against tropical disease in India.

Verrier Elwin wrote in a foreword (1957) to Leaves from the Jungle: Life in a Gond Village: A final thing strikes me as I re-read the pages of the Diary that follows is that I seem to have spent much of my time falling ill.