Tobacco seeds are extremly small, and each plant can produce up to 30 leaves. Ramon Espinosa/AP Images Tobacco farmer Raul Valdes Villasusa shows his hands, calloused from years of hard work.

Tobacco seeds are extremly small, and each plant can produce up to 30 leaves. Ramon Espinosa/AP Images Tobacco farmer Raul Valdes Villasusa shows his hands, calloused from years of hard work.

YOE, Pa. — Working with a rhythm perfected by years of repetition, Dorothy Burk unraveled a leaf of thin, light brown and silky smooth imported cigar tobacco and spread it onto the roller of a ...

MIAMI - Miami cigar maker Jose Montagne has been fighting for more than a decade to protect his catchy Cuban brand name, Guantanamera, from Cuban government trademark lawyers. What's in a name?

WAYCROSS, Ga. — For almost half a century, the women of Ware County and neighboring rural communities have been “laying wrapper” at the big King Edward cigar plant here. Urged on … ...

Until recently, conventional wisdom held that Cuban cigars should be filled with three types of tobacco leaves. The volados , which have little flavor, are at the bottom of the plant, and their ...

The best cigars are filled with longleaf tobacco, which burns much more slowly and offers a more savory smoking experience. Binder. A Binder is made up of the strongest leaves on the tobacco plant.

YOE, Pa. — Working with a rhythm perfected by years of repetition, Dorothy Burk unraveled a leaf of thin, light brown and silky smooth imported cigar tobacco and spread it onto the roller of … ...

Under the new plan, Parodi said it will purchase the cigars from Family Tobacco Trader, which will use La Aurora, a cigar manufacturing plant in the Dominican Republic, for the production. It will ...

Under the new plan, Parodi said it will purchase the cigars from Family Tobacco Trader, which will use La Aurora, a cigar manufacturing plant in the Dominican Republic, for the production. It will ...