It is a cigar lover’s paradise. <br /><br /> And at Cuba’s annual Habanos festival, aficionados have been able to indulge their passion to the full – not only smoking but learning how to make the perfect cigar in special workshops.<br /><br /> Experienced puffers from around the world could show their prowess in a competition for who could create the longest chain of unbroken ash – apparently it improves the taste.<br /><br /> Ash competition at Cuban cigar festival https://t.co/k3FU1iqq86— euronews (@euronews) 5 mars 2016<br /> <br /><br /> The 18th edition of the Habanos Festival was held in the Cuban capital Havana from February 29 to March 4.<br /><br /> Despite challenging weather conditions for crops, sales of Cuban hand-rolled cigars are said to be on the up <br />worldwide and a detente in relations with the US has producers eyeing up more profits.<br /><br /> The traditional auction of cigar storage humidors raised hundreds of thousands of euros for the communist-ruled island’s Pubic Health System, in a festival celebrated with music from the l
