Good news, cigar smokers: one of the terms of the big new US-Cuba deal is that American visitors to the island will be allowed to bring back up to $100 in alcohol and tobacco products. Previously, that was forbidden. For decades now, the ban on imports from Cuba has given its cigars a certain cachet in the United States, but it’s worth asking: are they really that much better than ones from, say, Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic? Read more…
