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RUIZ: Leer y fumar [To Read and to Smoke] 

The other morning some local newspapers awoke with sadness, like after a borrachera. One closed the last tobacco factory of Seville, an institution that in spite of its changes of vecindario and the gradual acorralamiento of the Ministries of Health and Economy continued associating our city with the ultramarine product fragrances and the faded memory of the empire of the other border . . .

In short, the disappearance of the legendary tobacco factory of Seville eliminates both with a stroke of the pen, without greater remorses. After all, cigarettes and volumes are made up all of paper and have reserved a common destiny: the ash.

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