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If you are smoking Cuban cigars in the United States, watch out as they are illegal. This is due to the trade embargo placed by John F. Kennedy. Actually if you are a US citizen, you can’t enjoy any Cuban products. However, the true Cuban cigar lover isn’t stopped by this and regrettably, a lot of people around the world have been taking advantage of such normal day folks by selling them fake cuban cigars.

I guess its true for all top value products that your are just bound to find people who will try to sell you knock offs for cheap. Same thing here with Cuban cigars. Especially on the internet where some people are selling boxes of Cohiba for $200.00. You can’t even get Cohiba’s in Cuban for that much folks. Anyways, when you smoke a Cuban cigar, you would know once you hold it, the quality just can’t be touched.

Fake cigars are being sold to naive tourists who are just trying to have a good time on their vacation. You’ll find these sellers using other South American cigars disguised as Cubans and they will sell it to you for less than one hundred bucks a box. It’s actually pretty funny how many people fall for it but once they touch a real Cuban cigar, their heads hang low in shame.

So the process of identifying a Cuban cigar is actually a little tricky. But some of the main things to look for is to make sure the Cuban cigar (If you ever do decide to buy it from the streets) doesn’t come in some plastic wrapper. Scam artists usually put them in cellophane wrappers. No real Cuban cigar ever comes in a cellophane wrapper. Their is the Fonseca brand but it comes wrapped in a very tiny sheet of almost silk like paper.

Plus the main indication that should turn on your radar is the price that you are getting the Cuban cigars at. If its cheap like $100 to $200 a box, you are being had. Go to Cuba and they will give you this look if you ask for Cuban cigars for that price. Cubans take their Cuban cigars very personally and rightfully so. It’s a product that has history going back for hundred of years and if someone is selling it to you for that low, they are simply insulting your intelligence. Not to mention you are completely wasting your money.

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