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Home News Positively Tampa Bay: Hispanic Heritage Month, legacy of cigar rolling in bay area

Positively Tampa Bay: Hispanic Heritage Month, legacy of cigar rolling in bay area

Thursday, October 07 2010

By: Kristal Roberts | ABC Action News

ABC Action News logoTAMPA BAY, Fla. - Cigar rollers are the immigrants who helped Tampa earn its place in history as the Cigar Capital of the World.

There were 284 million cigars hand-rolled in 1906 alone.

The old photos of workers are fading and the factories may be gone, but for one Tampa cigar family, the love affair with cigars & the industry goes on.

This is one of our humidors. We keep it pretty much at a temperature of 55 degrees, " said Arturo Fuente, the third generation operator of his family cigar business.

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