area who still raise tobacco. Armando Aguirre sits down to enjoy some lunch in the drying barn among leaves harvested that morning. Growing tobacco is labor-intensive work, requiring about 200 ...

While North Carolina produces the most tobacco in the United States, broadleaf tobacco grown in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts is known the world over as a premium wrapper tobacco for ...

The tobacco that makes up those leaves is grown in a variety of regions worldwide and undergoes several processes to create the flavor and blend that is eventually rolled into a premium cigar.