Cuban cigars have long had a reputation as being the best , but if American cigar connoisseurs want to enjoy them, they can only do so illegally Cuban cigars are banned in the United States.

The ban dates back to February 1962, when President John F. Kennedy established a strict trade embargo on all imports from Cuba in order to take a stand against and weaken Fidel Castro's communist regime. Cuba is still a totalitarian communist state , so the embargo remains.

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