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Smoke & Empire: Five Centuries of the Cigar

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An ambitious chronological history of Cuban tobacco, tracing the leaf from the Taino to the cigar trade of 2026.

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Dave “The Cuban Cigar” Dude is writing the single, sourced account he could never find, including the facts, myths, lies, and unverifiable stories surrounding five centuries of tobacco. Its timeline runs from Columbus’s first smoke and the 1717 Spanish monopoly to Cohiba, the embargo, counterfeit-proof packaging, and the state of the leaf today.

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