The most current shape is the parejo, which old-fashioned a cylindrical body, straight sides, one borderline open, and a round tobacco-leaf "cap" on the other end which must be sliced off, have a V-shaped notch make-believe in it with a express cutter, or punched through before http://www.cigarchief.com/ smoking.

Arturo Fuente, a broad cigar manufacturer based in the Dominican Republic, has also manufactured figurados in naturalized shapes ranging from chili peppers to baseball bats and American footballs. In practice, the terms Torpedo and Pyramid are often used interchangeably, even among precise conscious cigar smokers. Min Ron Nee, the Hong Kong-based cigar crack whose effort "An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Post-Revolution Havana Cigars" is mediated to be the definitive drudgery on cigars and cigar terms, defines Torpedo as "cigar slang." Nee thinks the majority is right (because slang is defined by majority usage) and torpedoes are pyramids by another name.