The last cigar factory in Tampa keeps rolling 

The clock tower will ring again soon and, if the owners have their way, will chime for at least another 110 years. Read the story: www.tampabay.com/life-culture/history/2020/09/24/century-old-ybor-city-clock-tower-will-ring-again-soon/

Just started smoking cigars a couple months ago. I do roadside assistance and someone gave me a couple cigars as a tip for changing their flat tire. He was a cigar roller for a local cigar shop. I smoke one cigar a week. Sunday night. My only day off of work.

Placing your personal opinion of tobacco aside, this is more than a factory. It’s a living history museum that celebrates the ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit of Latin-American immigrants.

Couldn't agree more. When you smoke a cigar, nothing else matters. Everything fades to pure relaxation.

I admit I am sort of a cigar snob, but I really enjoyed the video, watching the vintage machines bam bam bam punching those manufactured stogies out like a machine gun. There is a real magical kind of aura about it. I am a recently retired seaman and so I am used to getting Cubans, but lately I have been messing around with rolling my own. Sometimes I will have a Fuente 8-5-8 or a Hemmingway Short Story and I won't refuse a Dominican Romeo Robusto, But my first ever cigar was a Tampa Nugget Sublime and I had probably smoked about 1000 of them by the time I was old enough that I didn't have to lie at the store and say they were for my Dad. I even had a Swisher Sweet or two. Once I discovered long filler hand rolls, I was hooked, and then, Habanos. But I still remember getting green about the gills from my first Tampa Nugget, and the satisfaction I got from the second one. Then my uncle found me puffing away and suggested that I not inhale. LOL! Anyway thanks for posting the vid.

The story goes that JFK had 50 boxes of cigars delivered to himself before the embargo went into effect.

Thank God someone is still making cigars.

Bought a pack of no 99 at my local rez smoke shop. Really good cheap cigars. Lil sweet and peppery, mellow smoke, goes great with spiced rum. Glad there still American cigar factories still open.

I love the rustling sound of a burning cigar

Tampa Nuggets are all my Grandpa smoked till he died. Hardly ever saw him without one in his mouth. Many times it was not lit but he was just chewing on it to keep the smoke down when the grandkids were over.

Great piece! Sad to see what the FDA has done to our cigar makers

Always wanted to see the inside of this building when i drive by on the interstate.

Watching this video i could feel the smell of the beautiful cigar. Awesome. Its been long i had smoked one.

Found a local place here in Baltimore that sells them. Heading there tomorrow! Stay strong J.C.

Great family. Great history. Great cigars!

I was in Ybor City about 15 years ago and they had several cigar rolling businesses. We got some from a shop that rolled them right in front of you and we bought some finished (aged) ones and they were delicious.

So cool! I didn't realize what a huge cigar industry FL once had. I think it double cool that they are still using original factory equipment. I would think original machines are almost worth their weight n gold these days...

Cool factory, have to visit it.

Great video. He touched the heart of the matter for cigar smoking. When you smoke it you got your feet up....real time on your hands and all is well with the world. One or two cigars a week would do it...

I'm 100 percent hungarian born in the USA in 1960, I love Cigars and learned that Newman cigars was started in Cleveland Ohio and the family is a Hungarian Family, like I said I was born in 1960 in Cleveland Ohio and I'm 100 percent Hungarian, and I'm proud of my Nationality, I wish you could relate to your Hungarian past in Cleveland rolling your Cigars where it started.

There are still lots of artisanal cigar rollers around Florida.

This side of 2020 (ugh) I hope you are still doing good business. I vape now but still and always look forward to smoking cigars on holiday, a treat to myself. Like to try one of your smokes.

When I lived in Tampa, I paid girls in Ybor City to roll up all of my cannabis into blunts with green tobacco leaf. They'd smoke the first one while rolling the rest. I really miss those smokes

Beautiful machinery 👍🏻

1930 machine. When shit lasted. I've been looking for kitchen equipment like a potato press for fries. Some big cast iron that can be used as a hammer and still work for 50 years.

Cue the Limp Bizkit song "Rollin" Keep rolling, rollin, rollin, yeah!

@ 1:35 what is that in the sky to the left of the cloak tower?

Love my Quorum cigars!

2:23 she ain’t talking broke

Tampa Sweet was Richard Overton's favorite cigar!

THE ONLY reason I’ve ever been to Tampa...

God bless this man and his business

Good stuff🤙

A true treasure. Tampa is the best city in the world. 👍👍❤️

They do tours if you guys are interested

I need to visit

Bless there hearts

Is this where I can create my own blunt wraps at ?

Help fund fffc their cigar packing and manufacture. For procedia at gym plans

you got my vote bob

Is the company still open for business?

Many Cubans received their education in cigar factories. Many old timers that I knew that are no longer with us would make cigars while a young person would read the newspaper, Cervantes, and even the bible. One old woman that I knew was completely senile and unable to speak. But she rolled imaginary cigars for years until she died. True story.

Just like me still rolling

What brand are they ?

YOOOOO I PASSED THIS PLACE

Do you know where the word Tampa comes from?

Lived in Tampa damn near my whole life and haven’t visited this factory 🤦🏿‍♂️

the problem with cigar artisan, the just rolling cigar but not doing how to mix leaf till get good cigar

Please don't die..!!! 🙏

Shit yall better keep making them. Cigarillos are becomin rare!!

Machine made not hand rolled. I can see why it's not easy to stay in business. Watch vids of the cigar factories in other countries. Complete different, no machines at all. I prefer the old world methods of rolling a good cigar by hand.

Tampa, producing America's best Death metal and best cigars💪💪🤘🤘

Use to smoke Hav-A-Tampa Vanilla Jewels (Blue box) with wood Tips... NOT made anymore unfortunately... Really missing those.

Whats the difference between a Cuban cigar vs Caribbean made cigar or knes made in florida, if the cigar is made from top quality leaf?

Где можно купить?

WHY is it the last????

cigars...and now craft beers in Ybor City

Hell yes

Perfect video!!!!

Ganja wine on Cuban cigarettes will live the world of fantasy; Or a beer with a shisha, perfect imagination.

How much start this business in India

Cubans are still making them by hand?

Why is Cuban tobacco so better/different to another country?

Sad to see that they are using short filler and machines to roll them then are calling them premium cigars. That’s like calling swisher sweets premium cigars. Long filler hand rolled cigars are premium everything else is just a cigar. Don’t get me wrong people love their cheap sticks but don’t water down the premium moniker by using it on cheap shit

Too bad prices aren't relaxed

3:40 that cigar was disgusting. 😂

JFK liked a42 ring gauge cigar

Good luck,few people smoke Cigars anymore,most people don't even smoke at all these days.

I remember when I could make a road trip from Tampa to Miami going from cigar shop to the next and it was for me a fun trip. OK smoking is bad for you, but it is OUR choice. People eating habits are horrible and millions die from that. I don't see the gov. cracking down on people who are fat and unhealthy because of their eating crap. Shalom

Make sure you have a good dental insurance plan

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Ok thich

Ah, the government to the rescue as usual.

3k dollars a day? That's fucked up

WTF!!! I was told that these cigars were rolled on the thighs of virgins! It's all done by machine?!!!! I though they tasted funny.

I don’t smoking that cigars

Xì gà thì ra là như vậy..

Dam I want to work here it looks satisfying

I have alot more respect for cigars after watching this video.

Short filler? Aww man :-/

Medicinal meditaton sticks.

I wish cigars weren't bad for your health

That’s not how u light a cigar took a big first puff of nothing but lighter fluid

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Machine cigars are good only for fumas jj

Mfs still smoke tobacco in 2022 😂😭

Just to hi in price

Swisher Sweets worked well enough.

Very nice😈come fast hell

Hola agos sigarros si mene sesitan es toy dis ponile

Those workers look as dull as those cigars yuk.

I smoke 4 a week

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I wish that you could find a more healthier alternative to smoking cigars.

Real cigars are made entirely by hand. The rest is crap.

Cuban cigars are over rated and vast differences in quality make them a gamble at best. So many substantially better cigars then cubans. People like them for bragging not for quality.

Best thing you can do to stay in business is re elect President Trump.

Can't even pronounce watch correctly generations after pff 😑

how ignurt,,, to bad the last cigar dump wasnt shut down, cancer fingers