" The story about the life and economic miracles of the Comillas that Vilaró show here, has the importance to refresh the memory "

Juan G. Bedoya - El País - Negocios - 22 June 2003

" The stage is situated around the marquesses of Comillas turning the literary work into a biography of his most remarkable enterprise: The General Company of Tobaccos of the Philippines "

Ramón Tamames - Que leer - Los libros de Ramón Tamames - July- August - 2003

" Covering warfares and coup-d-etats around half of the planet, the peculiar Ramón Vilaró was hungry for a novel. Now he publishes Tobacco, the empire of the marquesses of Comillas: owners of the General Company of Tobaccos of the Philippines "

Nuria Navarro - El Periódico - Entrevista - 16 April 2003

" It narrates the life of a family that dominated the banking and mine sectors as well as the commerce of tobacco "

La Vanguardia - Libros - 10 April 2003

" It describes with certainty the arrival and development of the tobacco industry in Spain "

Cambio16 - 24 March 2003

" The novel, widely documented, centers at its height, when the Lopez family represented the intimate relationship of money and politics "

Julián Elliot - Historia y Vida- Libro del mes - July 2003

" The reader of Tobacco will enjoy a story with romantic tones about the beginning of industrialization and the end of the colonies "

Mundo Estanco -July-2003

" Centers the narrative, always rigorous, on the historical facts and on the marquesses of Comillas "

Marga Casado - Avui - 14 July 2003

CONFERENCE - Casa Asia - (Barcelona, 15-10- 2003) - Caja Cantabria (Santander, 7-10-2003) Club faro de Vigo - (Vigo, 28-10-2003)