Cigar city, Cigar man

By Business Observer Staff
| 6:00 p.m. November 28, 2008
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Eric Newman is a link to Tampa's past, as head of the city's last family-owned cigar company. He is fighting Washington and the anti-smoking crowd for his company's survival.

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