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Cuban cigar roller's latest giant won't likely be long enough for fourth world record  

HAVANA: Looks like it will be close, but no giant cigar, for Cuba's stogie-rolling king Jose Castelar.

The 64-year-old former world-record holder has teamed up with five assistants, using nearly 93 pounds (42 kilograms) of top-quality tobacco to assemble a 98-foot (30-meter) cigar.

Castelar set Guinness Records for the world's longest cigars in 2001, 2003 and April 2005

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