perique

Officials say the tax currently includes cigarettes, cigars, cheroots, stogies, perique, snuff or snuff flour, smoking or chewing tobacco.

A few bad seasons had knocked his production down to the point where perique was on the verge of extinction.

Mr. Brown and Mr. Nichols resolved to do something to preserve perique.

In 2000, American Spirit introduced a perique cigarette, giving Mr. Martin the consistent buyer he needed.

Over the years, American Spirit and its perique blend kept expanding, finding plenty of willing buyers in America and overseas.