Zino Davidoff
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Zino Davidoff (1906-1994) was the son of a small Jewish tobacco merchant and grew up in Kiev. He stood in his father’s tobacco shop rolling cigarettes and cigars for the entire family, while the male patrons at the shop talked politics. These discussions raised the ire of the Czar’s secret police and repeatedly caused difficulties for Davidoff’s father. In 1911 the family immigrated to Switzerland and opened up a tobacco shop in Geneva.
Zino spent his important apprenticeship years in South America, where he worked first at an import/export office in Buenos Aires and then at a tobacco plantation in Brazil. In Cuba he fell in love with fine Havana cigars. He returned to Geneva and opened his own tobacco shop which soon became a preferred location for fine tobacco enjoyment.
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- Zino Davidoff, "The Connoisseur's Book of the Cigar", McGraw-Hill; 1984. ISBN 0-07-015460-0
