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<text id=90TT0874>
<title>
Apr. 09, 1990: Business Notes:Tobacco
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 09, 1990 America's Changing Colors
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 67
Business Notes
TOBACCO
The Cuban Stogie Crisis
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<p> Are Cuba's famed cigars turning into second-rate smokes? The
country may be facing enormous economic and political problems,
but that question is provoking passionate debate. Last week
Francisco Padron, the director of Cuba's state-owned tobacco
company, proposed a televised taste test to snuff out
speculation that Cuba's cigar factories have been hurrying the
curing process and producing mediocre products.
</p>
<p> Padron's challenge stems from a dispute with an ex-customer,
Zino Davidoff of Geneva, whose company had been buying about
11 million of Cuba's 70 million cigars a year. Davidoff, 84,
canceled the arrangement last year and shifted production to
the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Fumes Davidoff: "The fact
is, the Cubans don't produce the same quality anymore."
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</body>
</article>
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