Cigar festival lights up Havana

Times of Malta ^ | 2/27/08

[martin_fierro]

Cigar festival lights up Havana

Cigar aficionados celebrate Cuba's tradition of fine cigar making at a week-long festival in Havana.

One-third of the 400 million hand-rolled cigars sold in the world each year are Cuban, but they are banned in the United States under four-decade-old trade sanctions against Cuba's communist government.

[martin_fierro]

It's easier to light up a stogie in Communist Cuba than in Kalifornia. Lovely.

[martin_fierro]

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[traditional1]

They should have held it a few days earlier; coinciding with Monica Lewinsky’s birthday.....

[weegee]

The Cuban people will finally live to see a day without living under Castro’s thumb and the first thing they’ll find is yuppie investors insisting on smoking bans in public.

[weegee]

How old is she now? It’s hard to believe that just one administration ago she was crawling around on her knees putting things in her mouth.

[traditional1]

I believe she’s 37, as a joke was traveling the Internet email circuit to that effect a week or two ago.

[HoosierHawk]

Thanks for the ping. Love your pic. : )

[devane617]

I will wager that the U.S. (mainly Washington) is the largest consumer of Cubans in the world. I heard rumors that Fred always had a large stash in his Senate office.

[cgbg]

My prediction is that we will see the embargo lifted in the post-Castro era but at the same time Congress will abandon the importing of _all_ cigars ("for the children").

:-(

The proposed SCHIP tax would have had the same effect and it only failed by a few votes in the House of Representatives after a Presidential veto. If Obama is elected this _will_ pass.

If you smoke 'em buy a multi-year supply _now_.

Nicaraguans are still at their peak after five or six years of storage.