Many Americans have seen their jobs go up in smoke in these tough economic times, but not a 100-year-old cigar manufacturing company in Tampa, Fla.

The name of the company was changed to the Inland Cigar Manufacturing Company Ltd. In 1899, around 3,800 cigars were made each day, then sold locally and exported to a major Vancouver distributor ...

At that point there were around 30 cigar manufacturers in Nebraska turning out over 750,000 cigars a year. Fred Wholenberg set up in 1875 on the southwest corner of 11th and O. Fred was joined by ...