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Hurricane Season Picks Up Momentum; Spares Cigar Centers So Far 

After a slow start, the Atlantic Basin hurricane season, which began June 1, has picked up in intensity with three hurricanes, Dennis, Floyd and Gert, developing in the past month.

Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd have passed safely to the northeast of the Caribbean cigar centers in the Dominican Republic and Cuba. . . While Hurricane Floyd is battering the Bahamas today with winds exceeding 150 miles per hour, 20-30 foot seas and heavy rain, the Bahamas isn't a significant cigar manufacturing center.

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