... manufactured in Yabucoa. They would not recognize themselves in cigars made from reconstituted wrappers and exhibiting a plastic tip on the Tiparillos that the General Cigar Company used to manufacture in Utuado. This book has covered the major changes to Puerto Rican social and economic history, labor...

... cigars, a debilitating cigarette war with the ATC capped by the degeneration of its wrapper leaf growing that together led to a loss of profitability. The PRATCO tackled these obstacles by a pyrrhic court victory over the ATC and by selling its participation in the PRLTC. The PRATCO sought revenue...

..., followed by the appropriation of the Cuban paradigm for cigars and cigarettes, and, finally, to the US models after the 1898 invasion. It also offers the only history of the US tobacco monopoly in agriculture and manufacture from its beginning in 1899 to the bankruptcy of its last successor company forty...