The other hand holds a cane and a cigar.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Each man lit a cigar.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Around the same time,Key West, off the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula, became the center of the cigar industry.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

And before long, the waterfront neighborhood that became known as Ybor City had 250 cigar factories.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

By the hundreds, Tampa's cigar factories closed, and Ybor City became a blighted slum.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

When those tensions spread to Key West, and some factories were burned, Tampa's leaders invited its biggest cigar maker, Don Vicente Martinez Ybor, to relocate there.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

But by the 1960s, cigar manufacturing had become highly mechanized, the government was heavily taxing tobacco products, and the importation of fine-leaf tobacco from Communist Cuba was forbidden.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

In the days when millions of men smoked cigars at work and at home, Ybor City was the undisputed cigar capital of the world, and brands like Have-a-Tampa became household names.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15