Middleton Co. talks about popular machine-made cigar

(timesherald.com) Smoking a pipe and playing golf may be two relaxing activities, but not necessarily things you’d want to enjoy at the same time. So from one man’s desire to have his pipe tobacco and eat it too — to rework a famous phrase — sprung an idea that is now a multi-million dollar company with locations in Limerick and King of Prussia. John Middleton Co., which started out as a little tobacco shop in Philadelphia in 1856, shifted to manufacturing pipe tobacco a century later, and ultimately introduced a product that combined the best of both worlds in 1968 — a machine-made cigar stuffed with pipe tobacco. Continued

Photo: Black & Mild Cigar (Wikipedia)