Juicy Jay's is a brand of flavored
rolling paper
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, Cigar
Tobacco
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s, and Cigar Wraps. Each paper has a printed pattern to match its flavor, and features a sugar-based gum. It is one of the few brands of flavored papers remaining in the US after an FDA legal challenge. Juicy Jay's comes in a number of flavors such as orange, cotton candy, or watermelon.
History
Juicy Jay's was founded by Joshua Kesselman. In the 1980s on a trip to
Queens, New York
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, Kesselman was given the nickname "Cool J." The first flavored wrap produced was menthol and was branded "Cool Jay's." The next flavor wrap created was watermelon and termed "Juicy Jay’s Watermelon" and was the first iteration of the company name.
In 2009, Juicy Jay's sued the FDA in order to protect their products in the US marketplace. A Federal court case ensued and the result being that Juicy Jay's are still available in the United States.
As of 2018 Juicy Jay's produced more than 30 different flavors, including ''Green Apple'', ''Strawberry'', and ''Banana''.
Juicy Jay's also distributes a line of
cigar
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wrappers named Juicy Wraps along with loose cigar rolling tobaccos. Each plastic package contains a cigar wrapper on a plastic sheet wrapped around a plastic straw. The company has a line of extra large cigar wraps named Juicy Wraps Super Wrap, each box features a cone-shaped cigar wrapper around a plastic
tube
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inside of a foil wrapper.
In addition to these products, Juicy Jay's also produces a new line called Juicy Jay's Natural Leaf Wraps, which are natural tobacco leaf wraps that come in packages of eight in a resealable foil pouch.
Juicy Wraps Super Wrap and Juicy Jay's Natural Wraps feature a flavour line similar to that of Juicy Wraps. Juicy Jay's cigar rolling tobaccos are a premium short-fill tobacco that come in 4oz bags and are also available in various flavors.
See also
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Shag (tobacco)
Shag, also known as baccy, rolling tobacco or loose tobacco, is fine-cut tobacco, used to make self-made cigarettes by hand rolling the tobacco into rolling paper or injecting it into filter tubes. It got its name from the finely cut strands app ...
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Tobacco smoking
Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke. The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or released from the mouth, as is generally done with pipes and cigars. The practice is believed to hav ...
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List of rolling papers
Rolling papers are small sheets, rolls, or leaves of paper which are sold for Roll-your-own, rolling cigarettes either by hand or with a rolling machine. When rolling a cigarette, one fills the rolling paper with tobacco, Cannabis (drug), cannabi ...
References
Cigarette rolling papers
Cannabis smoking
Tobacco smoking
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