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Que cigar cigar. (Davidoff International cancels Cubatabaco contract) (Business)
From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19900331
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The placid and stimulating influence of tobacco smoke permits men to sit together in silence with naught an anxiety," murmured Thomas Carlyle, a nineteenth-century Scottish historian. Davidoff International, a posh Swissbased cigar distributor, and Cubatabaco, Cuba's state tobacco monopoly, would not agree.
A year and a half of wrangling between the two companies has come to a head. On March 15th Davidoff announced that it will get its cigars from the Dominican Republic in future. National pride cut to the quick, Cubatabaco's managing director, Mr Francisco Padron, recently ...
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