Sprayed periodically with a fine water mist, each precut binder is fed at precise intervals to the filler-dispenser opening. There they are mechanically rolled around a measured amount of the blend and sealed with a faint brush stroke of cellulose paste to form the bunch or bundle. The crude cigarillos are then cut to whatever length the model calls for. Some shaping is also performed, such as the squaring of cigarillos that German smokes prefer. In a separate department, packers then supervise the filling of cartons, tins or wood boxes with 10 or 20 cigarillos, the standard issue.
All packages get a stiff, protective paper lining.
Carton packs are sealed in cellophane. The suggested retail for such cigarillos is about half what it is for the 100 percent tobacco variety. Be prepared to be charmed by the packages in which many cigarillos come. As a result, smokers came to expect the best cigarillos be packed in similar hard-edged carton boxes, wrapped in cellophane. Unlike cigar smokers, aficionados of cigarillos do not have to worry very much about storing their favorite smokes.