1.   His father, Giuseppe Ragano, was a grocer, and his mother, Josephina Matri Nostra Ragano, worked in a cigar factory.

2.   His mother and aunt worked overtime at a cigar factory and borrowed money to send him to college.

3.   That is his job at the Partagas cigar factory.

4.   The visit to the cigar factory falls under a potential business mission, which is prohibited.

5.   Walking through the Partagas cigar factory in Old Havana is like smoking a box of Cohibas without ever having to light up.

6.   A decade or so back, Compay Segundo was rolling H. Upmann coronas in a local cigar factory and making occasional appearances on local radio stations.

7.   Cuban police raided six clandestine cigar factories which produced and sold counterfeit versions of expensive stogies, the official Cuban newspaper Granma reported Saturday.

8.   Once dried to a brown, crinkly texture, the leaves are packed in bales and trucked to the numerous cigar factories of Havana.

9.   What the Americans lit were foul-tasting fakes apparently made from floor sweepings in Cuban cigar factories.