# Cigars? Cigarettes? Tiparillos? Um, What Happened to Tiparillos? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 15, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812 "2006-04-15T22:13:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/21 "2006-04-16T23:57:09Z")
> [@Wendell Wagner](#): > > Carnac the Magnificent!, all those websites you give are references to the commercials. Did you even notice that one of them is the same website that I gave in my second post? That’s not independent evidence that the line was used anywhere except in the commercials. I know, I know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nononoyesyesyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@nononoyesyesyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nononoyesyesyes)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/22 "2014-09-08T14:35:11Z")
waaaaaay too old of a post but here goes… im watching the film “the fortune cookie” and looked up the product and it led me here. scene: lemmon is being watched by some private eyes. hes using a walker in the athletes apt. the PI’s are chatting it up, when one of em says theyre off to the store. the guy who stays is asked if he needs anything. he lists off a couple things and at the tail end says… (and im paraphrasing) “oh yea and some tiparillos” 'bout halfway through the film. the fortune cookie is one of the many lemmon/matthau films. billy wilder directed/wrote. could be another wilder film has tiparillos mentioned too? either way. the film “the fortune cookie” does make mention of tiparillos. cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/23 "2014-09-08T14:43:17Z")
According to Wiki they are still being made by the General Cigar Company. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/24 "2014-09-08T14:53:52Z")
zombie or no generals won’t smoke Tiparillos. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/25 "2014-09-08T14:58:54Z")
> [@David\_Simmons](#): > > I’m probably alive because of Tiparillos. I decided to quite smoking after two successive sessions with bronchial pneumonia. The second time I decided to smoke Tiparillos because I wouldn’t inhale the smoke. I thought they were so awful that after a trying a couple I threw rest away and decided that no smoking at all was preferable to that. > > I was a 2-3 pack a day man and probably would be long since dead but for Tiparillos. That’s how my husband quit smoking. He thought they would help him taper down from cigarettes, but he quit Tiparillos in a very short time and hasn’t gone back. Oops, just saw how old this was. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/26 "2014-09-09T16:09:16Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > The line that I remember from commercials is definitely “Cigars, cigarettes, Tiparillos”: > > [TV Acres - Best General News Website 2024](http://tvacres.com/tobacco_slogans.htm) > > When I Google on “cigars cigarettes cigarillos”, I get a few hits. In each case though, it’s just part of a list of tobacco products. Does anyone remember any specific movies in which either of the lines “Cigars, cigarettes, cigarillos” or “Cigars, cigarettes, Tiparillos” appears? If you say it sounds vaguely familiar, but you don’t remember a specific movie, I suspect that you’re just remembering the commercial. I don’t think that the third element offered by the cigarette girls in the clubs had anything to do with an “-illo” product. I mean, let’s be real, there are only a couple of smoke products available, and I don’t see one of them offering snuff, Copenhagen, or pipe tobacco, in a club. I think that the quote went something like 'cigars, cigarettes, 1. flowers for the ladies, 2. matches, 3. anything else that the club was pimping out". It was always something that was small and could be sold as a side to the drinks and/or dinner. Back in the late 1990s, there was a ‘flower girl’ at the clubs I went to, who went around selling to the guys hitting on the chicks. The ‘tiparillos’ ending of the familiar triad was a humorous variation on the theme. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/28 "2014-09-09T16:22:30Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I think that the quote went something like 'cigars, cigarettes, 1. flowers for the ladies, 2. matches, 3. anything else that the club was pimping out". It was always something that was small and could be sold as a side to the drinks and/or dinner. Back in the late 1990s, there was a ‘flower girl’ at the clubs I went to, who went around selling to the guys hitting on the chicks. > The ‘tiparillos’ ending of the familiar triad was a humorous variation on the theme. I believe you are correct. I recall a Mad Magazine parody circa 1970 that had a cigarette girl in a mystery offering “cigars, cigarettes, clues”, reenforcing the notion that humorous third options were a recognized joke. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/29 "2014-09-09T21:37:24Z")
That mystery was “Mission Ridiculous”, and the “girl” was Billy the strong man, in a really impressive disguise. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812/30 "2014-09-10T00:45:21Z")
My first house was built in 1915 or 1918 (Edwardian, too late to be a Victorian. It has a small room just off the dining room (the 2 bedrooms are in back, behind the kitchen). Since it has a closet (about 2’x3’), it is now classified as a bedroom. Before that, it was probably a “sewing room” My guess is that it was built as a “smoking room” - after dinner, the men would go to this room, where they would remove smoking jackets from the closet and wear them while enjoying their cigars. The purpose of the smoking jacket was to absorb the smoke so it didn’t get into their shirts. This was before the women started with their “baby” cigar_ettes]_, after which the men (most of them) switched to the more acceptable cigarette, freeing up the room for other uses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-cigarettes-tiparillos-um-what-happened-to-tiparillos/352812.md?page=1)