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Show Cigars Few Can Afford, "A long, low strip of land, a valloy between high hills, llos 11 vo miles outside out-side of Havana, and there," said n cigar salesman, "tho best tobacco In the world Is grown. Tho namo of tho place is Abajo, and Vuolta Abajo crops aro always bought up two or threo years In advance of tholr planting. plant-ing. They yield only 35,000 cigars annually. These cigars sometimes sell as high as $150 a hundred $1.50 apiece. Vuolta Abajo cigars aro only smoked by kings and billionaires. Thero aro many fako Vuolta Abajos on tho market. But the real thing, onco smoked, can never bo mistaken, for thero Is no other tobacco In tho world with an nromn at onco so powerful pow-erful and so delicate." |