Luis Martinez

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Like many New World cigar brands, Luis Martinez started life in Cuba when in 1876 Don Luis Martinez opened his first cigar factory. Martinez started rolling cigars at the age of 12, by age 20 he started his own factory and by 25 he had brought the San Geronimo Tobacco plantation. Luis Martinez cigars sold very well all over North America until the revolution and state ownership of the tobacco trade. Like many other Factory & Plantation owners, farmers, rollers, brokers and workers in the tobacco trade, Martinez left for “Little Havana” in Tampa.