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In the Driftway
April 2, 1930 issue

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To a considerable extent Tampa, Florida, lives in order that America may smoke. The city has risen from the ashes of billions of cigars. A billion is a big number, but Tampa makes half a billion cigars a year, and somebody, somewhere, must smoke them. The industry is an exotic one, transplanted from Havana, and the workers are mostly Cubans or Spaniards or their native sons and daughters. The district known as Ibor City, once a separate municipality, is almost wholly Latin, and in many ways has the appearance of a little Havana.

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CIGAR industry; TOBACCO industry; SOCIAL history; RACE relations; TAMPA (Fla.); FLORIDA; UNITED States
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