Toscano OriginaleANECDOTES In 1970 the state monopoly decided to abandon manual production in favour of machine made cigars, but the directors of the Lucca factory kept on some cigar rollers who, in rotation, continued to produce small batches destined for the diritto di cernita (literally, the sampling right), which allowed the factory to sell some cigars directly and not via the state monopoly outlets. Fortunately, in 1985, as a response to strong demand from