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Kretek
Kretek (krē'tek) are cigarettes made with a complex blend of tobaccocloves and a flavoring 'sauce'. The word "kretek" itself is an onomatopoetic term for the crackling sound of burning cloves.Haji Jamahri, a resident of KudusJava, created kreteks in the early 1880s as a means to deliver the medicinal eugenol of cloves to the lungs, as it was thought to help asthma. It cured his chest pains and he started to market his invention to the village, but he died before he could mass market it. M. Nitisemito took his place and began to commercialize the new cigarettes. Today, kretek manufacturers directly employ over 180,000 people in Indonesia and an additional 10 million indirectly.
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. k.o. cigarette containing choped cloves. 2. k.r(Java) horse-drawn cart

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