Its the soil, climate and seed and of course some sweet senoritas to roll em on their thighs. Otherwise you will might as well buy a White Owl at the 7-11.
Pretty much, except almost all machine made cigars contain a variety of added chemicals like cigarettes do. There used to be a small number of machine made brands that contained 100% tobacco with no additives.
It's also a question of just nicotine delivery versus the pleasurable experience.
And then there's the taxes thing.