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Rollers, founders, and the occasional statesman whose name stuck to a vitola.
José Orlando Padrón
The founder of Padrón Cigars: his early life in Pinar del Río, exile, the hammer he bought in Miami, and Nicaraguan tobacco.
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Carlos Fuente Sr., who bought the family company in Tampa for one dollar, and Carlos Jr., who grew Dominican wrapper for OpusX.
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Winston Churchill and cigars: his Cuban cigar habit, Romeo y Julieta, and the long vitola named after him.
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