The founder of Davidoff, the popular German cigarette brand, was born in March, 1930 year in Ukraine. He was born in the Jewish family, his farther, Henri Davidoff, was either tobacco merchant, or cigarette manufacturer in Kiev. To avoid the political turmoil in Russia, they immigrated to Switzerland and opened their own tobacconist shop in 1912. He learned about the tobacco trading, visiting such places as Argentina and Brazil, and also he spent two years working on a plantation. And that was the first time, when he encountered Cuban
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