Tampa, Florida - This week end and by first time in the United States, during the "Cigar Heritage Festival a new world record was established, when Mr. Wallace Reyes and his wife Margarita, where able to create the "Worlds Longest Cigar" with a 101 feet long monster stogie.

The cigar was completed in front of hundreds of onlookers and with the help of more than a dozen volunteers who helped to complete the project in about 8 hours.

The Reyeses created the giant cigar – 101 feet long, approximately an inch thick (64 ring) and 53 1/2 pounds – to mark the 85th anniversary of their Gonzalez Habano Cigar Co. Counting labor and materials, the cost of the single stick was about $5,100 US dollars. He said the project required about 76 hours in total.

The record-setting cigar overwhelmed the previous longest-ever by an amazing 34 feet. The world's-longest-cigar record had been held by Cuba's Jose (Cueto) Castelar, who put together a 67-foot cigar in Havana in 2005. Assuming no one creates a longer cigar, the Reyes's record cigar will be acknowledged in the 2008 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.