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NewsWhore
03-26-2007, 05:50 PM
For years the Dominican cigar has been earning an increasingly outstanding reputation for excellence, and recent figures show that this reputation is well deserved. A US$100 million increase in exports from 2005 to 2006 was announced by the director of the National Tobacco Institute (INTABACO), Adalberto Rosa. Rosa revealed that 85% of the cigars were sent to the United States. The latest issue of Intabaco Informa also reveals that 73% of the total number of cigars sold are machine made and short filler, as opposed to the more costly premium cigars with a long filler.

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