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Cuban rolls record-breaking 43-meter cigar

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-05-07 12:47

HAVANA9  – A Cuban cigar roller broke his forth world record, creating a 43.38-meter-long (142-foot-long) stogie that doubled his previous best.

Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero (R), holds up the hand of the Cuban cigar roller Jose Castelar Cueto (L) who was awarded his fourth Guinness World Record for rolling a 45,38m (148ft, 11in) long cigar in Havana. [Agencies]

Sixty-five-year-old Jose Castelar smoked his own 2005 record of a 20.41-meter-long (67-foot-long) cigar, and vowed to continue to roll record-breaking creations.

"I'm going to continue until I do one that is the length of the Malecon" he said, referring to Havana's famous 10-kilometer (six-mile) seafront promenade.

Castelar -- who has rolled for a Saudi prince, among others -- received a Guinness world record for his troubles.

Decked out in a traditional white guayabera, Castelar explained he learned to make cigars when he was 14 years old.

But the athletic-looking sexagenarian said he limits himself to smoking one cigar a day.