papirosa
Sign in to savethumb|Two Belomorkanal papirosy, the left one with the carboard mouthpiece compressed in the typical manner before smoking A papirosa (, plural: papirosy) is an implement for tobacco smoking, a variant of filterless cigarettes. It consists of a hollow cardboard tube extended by a thin paper tube filled with tobacco. The cardboard tube acts as a cigarette holder and is called (mundshtuk) in Russian. This Russian term derives from the German words Mund and Stück (literally, "mouthpiece").
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thumb|Two Belomorkanal papirosy, the left one with the carboard mouthpiece compressed in the typical manner before smoking A papirosa (, plural: papirosy) is an implement for tobacco smoking, a variant of filterless cigarettes. It consists of a hollow cardboard tube extended by a thin paper tube filled with tobacco. The cardboard tube acts as a cigarette holder and is called (mundshtuk) in Russian. This Russian term derives from the German words Mund and Stück (literally, "mouthpiece").
==Description== thumb|Osman pariposy. "Ideal for a gentleman, the best friend of a sportsman", 1914 Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary claims that the word is borrowed from Polish papieros for "cigarette", where it is a portmanteau word "papier-" ("paper") + "-ros", the tail of "cigarros".