Alcohol and Tobacco in your country

Alcohol and Tobacco are addictive and all over the world. Tell me about how these are made/consumed in your country.

USA: Cigarettes are all over the country, about 16% of people smoke. But it's often not allowed in businesses and certain public places.

Cigars are closer to 5% of people. Much lower. My perception is that a lot of that is down in the south eastern US like Florida, where there has been more influence from cigar producing countries like Cuba (especially before the Cuban Missile Crisis.)

Chewing tobacco is much more commonly seen as a rural thing, but is still only around 3%. There's just something about about a Carhartt jacket, can of chewing tobacco and baseball cap that says "yeah, I'm a farm boy and I like it like it that way." States like Cali are very low around 1 in 100 people, states like Wyoming are very high, closer to 1 in 10.

The vast majority of chew and cigar users are men. It would be very uncommon to see a woman do it, especially chew.

Pipe smoking is overall very uncommon. The CDC doesn't have stats on pipe smoking as far as I can tell, which is where I got the information about tobacco usage above.

Tobacco is grown in only a few states. North Carolina is a big one, producing over 50% of our tobacco. After that it's Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and finally Pennsyvania.

seriously jimbo? why?

When it comes to the production of alcohol, the USA is famous for moonshine (which came out of our prohibition era production) and whiskey, particularly burboun and Tennesse whiskey.

Bourbon is legally defined:
made in the usa from a grain mixture of 51%+ corn
goes into new, charred oak barrels for aging under 125 proof and can't come out over 160 proof, and is bottled over 80 proof.

Tennesse whisky is basically the same as above, but only comes from Tennesse and uses a charcoal filtering process.

You got like a 1/2 million people working in your tobacco industry, Argentina.

Don't you find it at least a little interesting?

I'll talk mainly about the South, dunno about the country in this regard.

Tobacco is usually produced in small farms and sold for shit prices to big corporations like Phillip Morris and Souza Cruz.

Most smokers smoke industrial cigarettes (cigarros); a pack of 20 is, like, R$7,00 (US$2.25). Since taxes make most of the price, it's common among poorfags to buy smuggled Paraguayan* ones for R$2.50 (US$0.80) a pack. Countryside people also chew tobacco, but they're more associated with paieros** made with corn straw. Some urban hippies also like those.

Vodka produced here is cheap, and I believe it's made from corn and leftover grains. We don't produce rum because sugar cane doesn't grow well here, it's more associated with Northeast and Minas Gerais***.

We do produce two kinds of wine; one mainly in Paraná, called "colonial wine". It's cheap and good, albeit a bit too sweet, and you can buy 2 litres for, like, 12 bucks (4 dollars). Another is produced in Rio Grande do Sul and it's a bit better*4. Santa Catarina has both.

Certain wine-producing regions in Paraná also produce graspa, made with grape skin leftovers. It's for local consumption, not for sale.

I don't know about the local production of beer, but it's commonly drunk. We have some medium-size breweries mainly in Santa Catarina, like "Cerveja do Opa" (Opa's Beer).

People rarely do moonshine-like beverages... unless they're jailed. Inmate's moonshine ("maria bonita", Pretty Mary) is made with sugar and fruit skins.

* actually the so-called Paraguayan cigarettes are produced here in the South, exported to Paraguay at cheap prices and re-smuggled back. Dat Latin American [lack of] efficiency.
** eye dialect for "palheiro", strawy. The correct name is cigarro de palha, straw cigarette.
*** Salinas region from Minas Gerais is specially famed for their rum.
*4 in case anyone is wondering why Campo Largo wine stopped being a chav shit to become good and drinkable - it's now produced in Rio Grande do Sul.

Do you also want to know about my firearms faggot?

I'm asking about the production and consumption of these things in your country. Not your personal belongings.

Like:
>Certain wine-producing regions in Paraná also produce graspa, made with grape skin leftovers
That sounds really interesting. Do you have picture of that?

>That sounds really interesting. Do you have picture of that?
Sadly, I don't have pictures... but it's something like:

>press the grapes - get juice at one side, seeds and skins at the other
>use the juice for wine
>add a bit of water to seeds and skins, let them ferment
>distill the fermentation and leave it to mature with some whole grapes (to give it taste)

Then when people drink it, they usually either eat the grapes or leave them aside. The grapes get alcoholic as fuck, my first hangover was eating those (I was eight).

Do you like it? I'd really like to try that.

>Alcohol

Consumed, a LOT

>Drugs

Mostly cannabis and meth from what i've seen/heard.

Any unique alcohol made in finland?

I have bad memories with graspa, so not very much... but it has a distinct fruity taste, even when matured on wood barrels. On the other hand I'm really fond of wine, to be honest I only drink beer with friends.
(but avoid my region if tasting South American wine - aim for Mendoza, Argentina. Those guys' Pinot Noir is a treat.)

But since distilled stuff usually tastes the same before maturation, I guess you could get something very similar to graspa adding some grapes to clean vodka and letting the vodka rest for some three or four months.

Does Sup Forums not like these things?

If it's not 5 feet in front of them most people have no interest said thing.

>consumed
Well we are by far the world's #1 in beer consumptions per capita. I'm really proud of that t b h. We have millions of breweries, but unfortunately some are getting bought by western european companies (like heineken) and then turned into piss (like heineken).
In Moravia (where I'm from, best part of the country btw) a popular drink is slivovice, it's a spirit made from plums, apricots, pears, whatever. It can have 40-70% alcohol. Usually made at home in rural areas, it's also mass produced, but home made is always better. It's the bestest drink ever invented.
In the southern part of Moravia (where I'm from, best part of Moravia t b h) we also grow and make wine, Bohemian cunts call us fags for drinking wine but they know nothing, wine is great.
I'd say about 1/3rd of population smokes, including me. It's mostly considered normal. This year they're going to ban smoking in pubs tho and that makes me pretty fucking angry. Fucking socialist commie shitcunts fucking up muh freedoms again.

pic related, our president

>alcohol
>addictive

I think you're legitimately retarded

Why does Argentina shitpost like this?

I don't know about the other guy, but how is my post a shitpost?
alcohol is not addictive and if you think it is then I'm afraid you are genuinely retarded.

4/10
I was about to write out an actual reply.

>alcohol is not addictive
it is tho
t. alcohol addict

it's not addictive, it's just you that has a problem.

>argentinian education

not an argument

alright so go on and try being dry for 3 months
you'll see it's not so easy

it is though, again, you just have a problem.

but so often people talk about things like foods harvsted and prepared in their country. I thought they might have similar enthusiasm about their alcohols

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