A cigar can be either right or left sided, as any stripper will tell you. And at the Avanti Cigar Co. in Scranton, the strippers, spreaders, inspectresses, cutters and packers are making cigars, well, ...

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 stripping machine.

The era in which Vice President Thomas Marshall proclaimed a good five-cent cigar a national necessity brought the U.S. cigar industry its greatest success: the 8,500,000 stogies sold in 1920 still ...

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