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USA: The world's longest stogie cigar may have been rolled in Florida.

This weekend, the world record for the longest cigar may have been passed from Cuba to a few cigar-makers in Tampa, Florida. Wallace and Margarita Reyes completed assembly Saturday (November 18) on a cigar measuring 101 feet (30.7 meters) which would surpass the previous record for the longest stogie set last year in Havana, Cuba at 66 feet (20.12 meters). The monster cigar weighed in at 53 pounds (24 kilograms) and took weeks to make. The cigar-makers used $US 5,000 (3,899 Euro) worth of tobacco to construct the giant cigar. Wallace Reyes was born in Puerto Rico while Margarita Reyes is a native of Chile. If no one else can beat the record before July, 2007, the Tampa rollers believe they will be in the 2008 edition of the Guiness Book of World Records.

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