North Jersey cigar maker has a starring roll

(NorthJersey.com) Sometimes a cigar isn't just a cigar — particularly when it's what Jose Suarez insists it should be: Una obra de arte.
A work of art.
Standing behind the counter of his cramped Union City storefront, where the only cigars he sells are the ones he's rolled by hand, the 77-year-old owner of La Boquilla Cigar Co. is, by turns, genial and crotchety. Continued

Photo: Fisherman with cigar on rocks above Green River, Washington, Curtis & Miller, circa 1915 (Library of Congress).