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Jump to full article: Tampa (FL) Tribune, 2003-11-22
Author: DAVE SIMANOFF
Intro: Cigar smokers in the United States are planning to puff away tonight to help out cigarmakers and their families in the Dominican Republic.
The families behind J.C. Newman Cigar Co. and Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia hope to raise $250,000 tonight with its Toast Across America, an event that should have 5,000 cigar smokers, in all 50 states, lighting up simultaneously at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
The smokers will pay $50 a pop and will receive two commemorative cigars . . .
Newman is based in Tampa, and Fuente's headquarters are in Santiago, Dominican Republic. The companies are raising money for the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, which is planning to build a 23-acre community center with education facilities for children and adults, a clean water supply, a modern health care center and a youth sports center for the people who live in villages outside the Dominican town of Caribe. The charity is trying to raise $1 million, and has received $400,000 so far.
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