Factory Throwouts Extra Claro #59 6"1/4 * 45

Factory Throwouts are inexpensive smokes made in Tampa, Florida with aged Dominican fillers and Ecuadorian Sungrown wrapper which is slightly off color. The tobacco used is leftover tobacco from production of Arturo Fuente cigars. They are an extraordinary value.

The classic Corona Grande size is 6 1/2 inches by 46.

Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.

This cigar is 6"1/4 inches long, or 158.75 mm.

Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
Production of cigars in the United States, once a thriving industry, is now mainly machine made cigars. They are still being produced in the last remaining cigar factory from the 1890s, the JC Newman Cigar factory in Tampa. However, in recent years boutique brands have flourished and are being handmade by select rollers in Miami, Florida.

The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 45, so his diameter is 45/64 inches or 17.78 mm.

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
Known as Claro Claro, Double Claro, Jade, AMS, or Candela, this green wrapper is mild in flavor. AMS stands for American Market Selection as it was the color most cigar smokers in the US used to favor.

Machine-made cigars may be completely assembled by machine, or they may be bunched by machine but the wrapper is placed on the cigar by hand.

Established in 1895, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is America's oldest family-owned company making premium cigars, which include the cigars they make at the last operating cigar factory in Ybor City, Florida, and their popular Brick House cigars made in their factory in Nicaragua.

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
Ecuadorian Sun Grown can be from any varietal of tobacco, the sun grown designation just means that the plant has received more sunshine which provides a more intense flavor.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
Homogenized tobacco is a mixture of chopped scrap tobacco and a cellulose adhesive. It’s primarily used for making inexpensive machine-made stogies.

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.
Filler (or “tripa” in Spanish) is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar. The Dominican Republic is considered one of the most premier tobacco growing countries in the world. The filler tobacco grown in this Caribbean island nation ranges from mild to full bodied. Olor Dominicano and Piloto Cubano are the main types of tobacco grown in the Dominican Republic.