PINAR DEL RIO: A woman follows ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Viales.PINAR DEL RIO: Women follow ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Vinales. The end result are handmade cigars. Some of the brands produced are the Trinidad, Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, Vegas Robaina, Partagas and Hoyo de Monterrey.PINAR DEL RIO: As a Roman Catholic priest in Cuba, Bartolome de las Casas, a Spanish historian, described the use of tobacco: "men with half-burned wood in their hands and certain herbs to take their smokes, which are some dry herbs put in a certain leaf, also dry, like those the boys make on the day of the Passover of the Holy Ghost; and having lighted one part of it, by the other they suck, absorb, or receive that smoke inside with the breath, by which they become benumbed and almost drunk, and so it is said they do not feel fatigue. These, muskets as we will call them, they calltabacos."PINAR DEL RIO: Women follow ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Vinales. Cuba is increasingly incorporating irrigation systems to their plantations, according to the Guerrillero News.PINAR DEL RIO: Women follow ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Vinales. The end result are handmade cigars. Some of the brands produced are the Trinidad, Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, Vegas Robaina, Partagas and Hoyo de Monterrey.PINAR DEL RIO: Women follow ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Vinales. The end result are handmade cigars. Some of the brands produced are the Trinidad, Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, Vegas Robaina, Partagas and Hoyo de Monterrey.PINAR DEL RIO: The European cultivation of tobacco in Cuba began in 1580. Spain's King Philip III decreed that tobacco could only be grown in Cuba, Santo Domingo, Venezuela and Puerto Rico and ruled that the sale of tobacco to foreigners be punishable by death.PINAR DEL RIO: Before the Spaniards colonized Cuba, the Taino tribes used tobacco for religious, medicinal and ceremonial purposes. Now cigar rollers maintain Cuba's reputation as the world's top selling producer of premium hand-rolled cigars.PINAR DEL RIO: Women follow ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Vinales. The end result are handmade cigars. Some of the brands produced are the Trinidad, Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, Vegas Robaina, Partagas and Hoyo de Monterrey.PINAR DEL RIO: Men and women follow ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Vinales. The end result are handmade cigars. Some of the brands produced are the Trinidad, Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, Vegas Robaina, Partagas and Hoyo de Monterrey.PINAR DEL RIO: A woman follows ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Vinales. The end result are handmade cigars. Some of the brands produced are the Trinidad, Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, Vegas Robaina, Partagas and Hoyo de Monterrey.
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PINAR DEL RIO: A woman follows ancient artisan procedures to work on dried tobacco leaves at a farm near Viales.
