What exactly are cuban cigars? Where can I find them? They aren't legal, right? What do they do to you?

Question

Are they easy to find? Is it like weed or somethng? What exactly do they do to you? Just curious?

Ok, but what do they DO to you???

Answer 1

Cigars manufactured in Cuba are widely considered to be without peer, although many experts believe that the best offerings from Honduras and Nicaragua rival those from Cuba. The Cuban reputation is thought to arise from both the unique characteristics of the Vuelta Abajo district in the Pinar del Río Province at the west of the island, where a microclimate allows high-quality tobacco to be grown; and the skill of the Cuban cigar maker

Cigars from Cuba are derived from tobacco components found throughout the country of Cuba: meaning the filler, the actual tobacco, and wrapper all come from different portions of the island. This may be why the Cuban cigar is considered to be the best, and why Cigar Aficionado magazine usually rates new Cuban cigars as the best. All cigar production in Cuba is controlled by the Cuban government. Unlike other cigar companies, where each brand is harvested and rolled in its own factory, all Cuban cigars are rolled in 2 or 3 different factories in Cuba. Cuban cigar rollers are famous for being the most skilled rollers in the world.

This is a list of the most popular Cuban cigars in production today: Bolivar, Cohiba, Cuaba, Diplomaticos, El Rey Del Mundo, Fonseca, H. Upmann, Hoyo de Monterrey, Juan Lopez, Montecristo, Partagas, Punch, Quai D'Orsay, Quintero, Rafael Gonzalez, Ramon Allones, Romeo y Julieta, Sancho Panza, Trinidad, and Vegas Robaina

The cigar became inextricably intertwined with U.S. political history on February 7, 1962, when United States President John F. Kennedy, intending to sanction Fidel Castro's communist government, imposed a trade embargo on Cuba. Americans were thus prohibited from purchasing what were at the time considered the finest cigars on the market, and Cuba was deprived of a large portion of its customers. According to Pierre Salinger, then Kennedy's press secretary, the president ordered him on the evening of February 6 to obtain a thousand Petit H. Upmanns Cuban cigars; upon Salinger's arrival with the cigars the following morning, Kennedy signed the executive order which put the embargo into effect.[2]
A tobacco plantation in Cuba
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A tobacco plantation in Cuba

Cigars obtained prior to the embargo are not considered contraband, and became known as "pre-embargo Cubans."

As of 2006, it remains illegal for Americans to purchase or import Cuban cigars. As is usual with embargoes, there exists a lively smuggling trade, coupled with elevated prices and rampant counterfeiting.

Cuban cigars purchased in ports overseas such as Jamaica and other Caribbean islands are often counterfeit. The cost of Cuban cigars range dramatically, and most likely the genuine product is sold at the same price the factory in Cuba is selling their cigars for.

In the United States, Cuban cigars not only have the mystique of being a "banned" item to purchase but they are more importantly considered by American cigar aficionados to be the best "smoking experience" of all cigars.

Due to the increased use of home computers and the advent of the Internet, it has become much easier for people in the United States to purchase illegal cigars online from neighboring countries such as Canada where there is no embargo against Cuba. The full impact of computers and the Internet on the embargo is not known. As with all illegal activity, there is a higher risk of being taken in a scam, either by receiving counterfeit goods or nothing at all.

Answer 2

Cuban cigars are cigars made in Cuba. They are legal in Cuba.

They are not legal in the United States due to a trade enbargo with Cuba.

They don't do anything different to you then any other Cigar.

Answer 3

you can only get them here if you have a connection with someone who has a connection and its just simple tobbaco they are illegal because usa dosent trade with communist contries such as cuba but if you want to experience a cuban cigar just go to a cigar shop and look for a high quality cigar from daminican republic its right next to cuba so its the same product there is no kind of drug in it but if you like cigars there good not the best in the world i dont believe

Answer 4

No they aren't weed. Cuban cigars are just that; tobacco cigars grown and rolled in Cuba. The reason they are illegal in the U.S. is for the same reason anything grown or manufactured in Cuba is illegal in the U.S. - we have economic sanctions in place against the Castro Regime. Cuban cigars can be purchased in other countries like Mexico and Canada if you really want to smoke one. You cannot bring it back to the U.S. though.

Answer 5

Technically, import of any goods from Cuba to the US is illegal. A flourishing black market in Cuban products come to the US via Canada, Mexico, or other neighbouring states still ensures the well heeled and connected amateur can get his needs satisfied.

As for what they are... duh, cigars, however, the particular climate of certain areas of Cuba, combined with a recognized expertise in the field gives them a reputation as the best in the world. And they don't do anything normal tobacco products don't.

Answer 6

Cuban cigars are exactly that, cigars made in Cuba, you wont find any of those in US never (at least legally), they are big quality, hand made and very long tradition.

In US you can find cigars from the Dominican Republic, those are nice too

Answer 7

They are made in Cuba and not legal; they are just cigars and there is not dope in them.

They are illegal because the US had a trade embargo against Cuba

Cuban cigars are the creme de la creme of cigar. The ones made in Domenica are just as good but because Cuban's are the forbidden fruit (so to speak): everybody wants them.

Answer 8

They are a high quality cigar. They do not have the fillers that are used here. They are not pot. They are not a drug other than the tabacco. They do not do anything to you. They are just a nice smooth smoke. Where can you get them? Well you are not supposed to be able to get them anywhere in the USA. Other countries do not have restictions on imports (i.e embargo) from Cuba, so...

Answer 9

You are trying too hard to be complicated.

Cuban cigars are made in Cuba.
They are illegal in the USA but not in Canada.
They are made of tobacco.

No more of an effect on you than any other cigar.
They are rare and difficult to get in the USA so considered to be all the better for that.

Answer 10

they are cigars from cuba. the united states has banned anything that is made in cuba from being imported into the united states because of fidel castro and his hostility and other things. so the reason they are such a big deal is because they are hard to get and must be smuggled into the states. it's just like teenagers who drink alcohol, it's so exciting because they're not old enough to legally buy and consume it.

so there is nothing special about them.