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...stimulus to American cigars," insists Carl J. Carlson, executive director of the Cigar Association of America. Since the embargo began, total cigar sales in the U.S. have receded from more than 6 billion a year to just 5.3 billion in 1976. A return of the Cuban smokes, cigarmen reckon, might inspire a whole new generation to sample the legendary product, then to buy American cigars as well - especially since they cost about 12? on the average, while their Cuban cousins often go for more than a dollar. What is more, before 1962 some 95% of the Cuban cigars sold...
...each year in the U.S., faced going out of business. Most of the 4,800 Florida cigar workers and their bosses grudgingly accepted the ban as a necessary means of choking off Castro's dollar supplies. Now that Washington has approved a legal way around the embargo, Tampa cigarmen are wondering out loud whether their industry is being uselessly sacrificed. As explained by the Treasury Department, the embargo is powerless to prevent entry into the U.S. of Cuban tobacco manufactured into cigars in any third nation or its possessions-Spain's Canary Islands, for example...
Last week the U.S. Cigar Manufacturers Association called on the President and Congress to plug this loophole. In Tampa, more than 600 cigarmen have already been laid off. But manufacturers seemed in no hurry to follow the leader to the Canaries. Asked James J. Corral, president of the 657-man Corral-Wodiskay Cia.: "What if you establish a factory there and they change the rules of the game on you? You've lost a lot of money, that...
...Tampa cigarmen are predicting that when their own six-month to one-year stockpile of Havana leaf runs out, their $50 million-per-year business will go up in smoke. "I don't know what these people are going to do." said Pedro López, a cigar union official. Looking around a large, pungent room full of hand cigar makers, he added: "Their average age is between 45 and 60; they're not entitled to a pension, and they're too old to find jobs. I think that if they're going to let tobacco...
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