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Our darkest cigar derives its naturally deep colour from its celebrated wrapper leaf, grown in Mexicos San Andres Valley

Eric Gagnon, Imperials vice-president of corporate and regulatory affairs, greets me warmly before giving me the grand tourthrough a reception area decorated with Pride balloons, into a labyrinth of desks and glass-walled offices staffed by smiling employees, past a company caf serving up oat lattes, down the stairs to a well-stocked cafeteria and fully equipped gym

After European colonization, tobacco would become the most profitable crop exported from the Americas

It's the defining image of the film