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Cheroot
This Burmese man's name is Abathi. He is 90 years old and a former palm tree climber who lost the tip of his middle finger cutting palm fruit as you can see in the image. He is smoking a cheroot, a traditional Burmese aromatic cigar made by mixing tobacco with star anise fruit and wood chips and scented with a variety of aromatic flavours such as molasses, honey, rice wine, pineapple, tamarind or banana. A piece of corn or rice husk is attached to one end to act as the filter and the whole thing is wrapped in thanatphet leaves as the outer casing.
Cheroot
This Burmese man's name is Abathi. He is 90 years old and a former palm tree climber who lost the tip of his middle finger cutting palm fruit as you can see in the image. He is smoking a cheroot, a traditional Burmese aromatic cigar made by mixing tobacco with star anise fruit and wood chips and scented with a variety of aromatic flavours such as molasses, honey, rice wine, pineapple, tamarind or banana. A piece of corn or rice husk is attached to one end to act as the filter and the whole thing is wrapped in thanatphet leaves as the outer casing.