Yech! I have never smoked either, and your story makes me even happier I never have, much less smoked a Cuban cigar from that era.

>During 1960 I saw Cuban Cigars being made. This is not a joke but what I actually saw.
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>The temperature was about 100 degrees outside and 99 – 100% humidity, and the building was not air-conditioned, so it was very hot inside. Women were at long tables seated in chairs with their full skirts pulled up to about the middle of the upper leg. Tobacco leaf was taken and rolled from the middle of the inner portion of the upper leg to the knee to form the cigar. It took about one minute or less to create a cigar. I guess the perspiration held the tobacco leaf together until the process was complete.
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>This may not be how it is done today but at least at that one factory I received a lasting impression of Cuban Cigar Manufacturing. By the way I do not smoke!