Voodoo cigarillos: bidis in disguise?
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- Correspondence to: Cristine Delnevo, 335 George Street, Liberty Plaza Suite 2200, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2688, USA; delnevo{at}umdnj.edu
As part of its routine monitoring of emerging tobacco products, “Trinkets & trash: artifacts of the tobacco epidemic”, a collection of current and historic tobacco marketing (www.trinketsandtrash.org), recently identified a new tobacco product called Voodoo cigarillos. They are exclusively manufactured in India for the US based Kretek International, a specialty tobacco distributor whose exclusive product line includes Djarum clove cigarettes, Darshan bidis, and Dreams multi-coloured and flavoured cocktail cigarettes.1 The Voodoo cigarillos we obtained were flavoured and, as with bidis, consisted of tobacco flakes wrapped in a leaf tied with a small string. Aside from a slightly larger and more uniform cylindrical shape, Voodoo cigarillos appear …
