PICK OF THE WEEK : Guinness confirms longest stogie record
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: A Dominican man living in Puerto Rico rolled a 62-foot-long cigar earlier this year and now it’s been declared the world biggest. Patricio Pena’s 20-pound stogie, rolled at a vegetable market in Puerto Rico’s capital, easily beat the previous world record of 45 feet. Pena, who has lived here for about three years, received confirmation that his mammoth cigar was the largest from the Guinness Book of Records on Wednesday, his 44th birthday. “I’m so happy, you can’t imagine,” Pena said Thursday. “It was my birthday gift.” It took 20 pounds of tobacco and 100 leaves to complete the giant stogie, Pena said. — AP
