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J.C. Newman Cigar Co. was founded in Cleveland 1895 and moved to Tampa in 1954.

TAMPA — Since 2009, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. has been Tampa’s last operational cigar factory. Recently, the 129-year-old business located inside Ybor City’s El Regensburg Cigar Factory learned they have an even more notable distinction. They now run the last operational cigar factory in the nation. Throughout the country, there still exists small operations, like the storefront businesses rolling ...

The FDA’s proposed ban on flavored cigars is safetyism at its most maddening. We explore how its potential effects could decimate the industry.

TAMPA — In the middle of more than 100 floats at last year’s Gasparilla parade was one that looked like a red-brick replica of the J.C. Newman Cigar Co., the only cigar factory still in operation in Ybor City. The float had a working clock tower that was actually its bathroom in disguise. While Latin jazz played over the speakers, Luis Martinez, a master roller for the historic cigar company, ...

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