Women Roll Out New Cigar Magazine in Ybor City
November 23rd, 2005
From Richard Mullins, The Tampa Tribune:
TAMPA - — Lisa Figueredo always wondered why Tampa — with so much history in cigar making — didn’t have its own cigar magazine.
So many Tampa families have parents and grandparents who rolled cigars in huge factories and small shops in the city. Some of the most respected cigar brands in the world trace their histories through Ybor City and West Tampa.
At 2 one morning in July, the idea came to her: Why not start her own magazine?
That’s when Cigar City Magazine was born.
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