Video - record breaking cigar attempt

[cigargirl85]

From BBC News

[link]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7387181.stm[/link]

Cigar-making king Jose "Cueto" Castelar and his five assistants attempt to break a Guiness World Record.

The 64-year-old former was using nearly 42 kilograms of top-quality tobacco to assemble a 30-metre cigar.

Castelar learned the art of cigar-making from an uncle at age 5.

He set Guinness World Records for longest cigars in 2001, 2003 and April 2005, when he completed a stogie measuring 20.41 metres.

[BigSlick]

I've only got 1 Salamone left that he rolled a few years back. :-( Damn tasty.

[Ken Gargett]

so he made a rope from tobacco.

personally, i'm not sure stunts like that do anything for the image. and i would not be so bothered if he'd made it from crap tobacco but why use good stuff? not as though he"ll sit andsmoke the thing

[mkz]

» not as though he"ll sit andsmoke the thing

That, would be a record!

Screw these longest/fattest cigar records. I wanna see somebody smoke the whole thing!!

[tigger]

From merriamwebster.com

Main Entry:

ci·gar

si-'gär

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Spanish cigarro

Date:

1730

: a small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking

Not a cigar if you can't smoke it, IMO

[Colt45]

» : a small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking

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» Not a cigar if you can't smoke it, IMO

Good point - if it isn't to be smoked, it might be more appropriately called a tobacco

loaf, roll, or as KG stated, rope.