[RayChuang88]

Let's face it: many of the people who made Habana cigars left for Florida and Central America during the Cuban Revolution. You can get often better than Habana quality cigars from the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

[cgbg]

You can get often better than Habana quality cigars from the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

I smoke a _lot_ of cigars of all kinds, and I must respectfully disagree.

The Cubans use primitive technology, treat their workers horribly, use medieval management techniques, have significant quality control issues, have a lot of their product faked (even in Cuba, and especially in the Caribbean).

But--they have one thing going for them that all the f*&^-ups in the world and a horrible government has not managed to destroy.

It is the soil.

A properly aged quality Cuban is a different world than other cigars.

It is what it is.