TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On this day 137 years ago, a cigar manufacturing business became the first place in Ybor City to roll a Cuban cigar. According to the J.C. Newman’s cigar museum, on April 13, 1886 ...
Welcome to Havana Cubahome of the legendary Cuban Cigar This is a fascinating place where a stick of rolled tobacco leaf is turned into an intricate art form producing a desire of international ...
The Cuba Libre has been liberated and the ban on Cuban cigars has gone up in smoke. The Obama Administration, in a new round of executive actions aimed at increasing trade with the communist country, ...
Havana is the destination of the moment. In the past couple of months, Barack Obama, the Rolling Stones and even the Kardashians have made pilgrimages to the Cuban capital—along with Karl Lagerfeld ...
From the new TIME special edition Inside the New Cuba. Pick up your copy in stores today. Digital edition available at TimeSpecials.com If the opening to Cuba proceeds to its logical conclusion, it’ll ...
Many American cigar smokers dream of smoking a Cuban, legally. We're talking about Cuban cigars, which have been banned in the U.S. since the 1962 trade embargo against the Castro government. But as ...
TAMPA — The J.C. Newman Cigar Company claims to have the nation’s last bale of Cuban tobacco. Purchased just prior to the U.S. government cutting off all business relations with the socialist nation ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — More than a century ago, cigar factories were filled with hundreds of immigrant cigar rollers, the strong smell of tobacco, and the sound of knowledge. He sat on an elevated ...