Cuba Cuts Cigar Output as Demand Runs Out of Puff

Source from:  Financial Times 06/23/2010

Global economic woes and the spread of smoking bans are taking a harsh toll on production of what many aficionados consider to be the world's finest tobacco in the lush green-brown valleys of Cuba's western-most province, Pinar del Rio. The province's just concluded tobacco harvest came in at 22.4m leaves, down 14 per cent from 26m in 2009, according to Guerrillero, the province's Communist party weekly. Enditem