| It has been stated above that much of the perique tobacco is a substitute for the genuine. |
| He stayed seated on the edge of the gallery and began to smoke cigarettes which he rolled himself of perique tobacco. |
| A few bad seasons had knocked his production down to the point where perique was on the verge of extinction. |
| Most people in St. James have a story about someone who tried to smoke or chew perique straight. |
| In 2005, a North Carolina businessman named Mark Ryan bought an old processing facility in nearby Convent, La., with a lineage going back to Pierre Chenet, thought to be the first Westerner to produce perique. |
| It is said that the output of genuine perique is small, being well under 50,000 lbs. |
