New cigar world record

Thats pretty crazy. I like he works on that thing for weeks and then lights up a celebratory marlboro.:D
 
Sorry, CNN messed up. He's a few meters short of the world record:

Record put out of reach for Cuba’s Cueto:

Jose Castelar Cairo, the Cuban cigar master known as “Cueto,” may be able to finish his longest cigar ever this week during the International Tourism Fair in Havana. But it won’t be another record-setter.

The 64-year-old Cairo set out to top his own best of 20.41 m (66-11 1/2) from 2005. He had previously set Guinness-certified “world records” of 11.04 m (36-2 3/4) in 2001 and 14.86 m (48-9) in 2003 in addition to his 2005 giant. But word came this week that the Guinness panel had certified the world-record status of a 41.2 m (135-2) behemoth rolled last year by Puerto Rican Patricio Pena.

A report from the Associated Press indicated that Cueto’s finished cigar will reach about 30 meters (98 feet). He’s been working on it with five assistants since last Saturday, using about 93 pounds of tobacco leaves yielding a ring gauge of more than 128 or two inches in diameter! He’s expected to display the finished cigar on Friday.

“I’m working to take it to the maximum,” he told the AP on Tuesday, “We’ll be back in two years with a longer one.”

Cueto told reporters – with a laugh – that his cigar is smokable, but “we’re missing someone with the lungs for it.”

http://www.cigarcyclopedia.com/webapp/content/view/1150/27/
 
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Glacierman said:
Sorry, CNN messed up. He's a few meters short of the world record:

Record put out of reach for Cuba’s Cueto:

Jose Castelar Cairo, the Cuban cigar master known as “Cueto,” may be able to finish his longest cigar ever this week during the International Tourism Fair in Havana. But it won’t be another record-setter.

The 64-year-old Cairo set out to top his own best of 20.41 m (66-11 1/2) from 2005. He had previously set Guinness-certified “world records” of 11.04 m (36-2 3/4) in 2001 and 14.86 m (48-9) in 2003 in addition to his 2005 giant. But word came this week that the Guinness panel had certified the world-record status of a 41.2 m (135-2) behemoth rolled last year by Puerto Rican Patricio Pena.

A report from the Associated Press indicated that Cueto’s finished cigar will reach about 30 meters (98 feet). He’s been working on it with five assistants since last Saturday, using about 93 pounds of tobacco leaves yielding a ring gauge of more than 128 or two inches in diameter! He’s expected to display the finished cigar on Friday.

“I’m working to take it to the maximum,” he told the AP on Tuesday, “We’ll be back in two years with a longer one.”

Cueto told reporters – with a laugh – that his cigar is smokable, but “we’re missing someone with the lungs for it.”

http://www.cigarcyclopedia.com/webapp/content/view/1150/27/
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Per the news story he was short yesterday but worked over night and made it longer to get the world record.
 
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