Cigar Master's Death Seals His Legend

(NPR) He was 91, smoked his first cigar at the age of nine. And to his dying days he was devoted to his crop. Robaina's cigar tobacco was of such high quality that Fidel Castro allowed the grower to keep his plantation when other growers were herded onto collective farms. NPR's Tom Gjelten profiled Alejandro Robaina for this program in 1999 and has this remembrance. Continued