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Who said that?

"I don’t smoke. I won’t smoke this one. I just wanted to roll one."

-- Daniel Seddiqui

Daniel Seddiqui had never held a cigar until he hand rolled one at Ybor City’s J.C. Newman Cigar Company this week.

“I don’t smoke,” he said with a laugh. “I won’t smoke this one. I just wanted to roll one.”

That was the 40th of 64 firsts the Oregon man has planned for this year.

Since April, Seddiqui has made graffiti art in Brooklyn, a train spike in Birmingham, a baseball bat in Louisville, a model car in Detroit, a 3D architectural model in Chicago, a sweetgrass basket in Charleston, a Terrible Towel in Pittsburgh and vinyl records in Cleveland.

After leaving Tampa, he headed for New Orleans to make Mardi Gras beads and help build a parade float.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times