The "geo-tobacco": between smoke and politics from Havana

Abstract

Can anyone imagine Winston Churchill, Stalin or Roosevelt without a cigar, Pope Pius VI without a bastoni di tabaco or Fidel without his and even the young Kim Yong Un without a Cohiba? What would the West, even the East, be without tobacco? If those banal cigars could tell what their consumers were thinking as they rested on their lips or ashtrays... would the way history was told be the same? Beyond political trends or ideologies in market models, political regimes or the Cuban obscurantism of the 20th century after the Bay of Pigs, tobacco is the center of gravity of a Cuban configuration that any nation would wish to have.

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