In the back, five men still make cigars the way they have been made "for hundreds of years," Mr. Castellano said.

Paul's father owned a tobacco plant, making cigars of the raw tobacco he imported.

By the beginning of the 19th century, 700 men were employed in the factory to make cigars, and another thousand to make snuff.

She was not any more, and there had been no more time to make cigars.

The company also makes machine-made cigars, matches and lighters.

Some nights a man sits making cigars by hand in the cigar shop in the front of the room.

It has factories making cigars and brooms, two hotels, and an airport.

I believe Igor makes cigars by rolling the leaves between his thighs.

"They're so whipped in that country," he says of Cuba, "they can't even make cigars."

All the women in his family were seamstresses, and the grandfathers made cigars.