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Puro Express earned another honor by being the only retailer to be ranked in our top ten in all five tests, which is quite impressive. Three sites tied for second with four appearances in the top ten in five surveys: Puro Rey Cigars, 1001 Cuban Cigars and Cubanlous.com. As with all Internet purchases, we suggest caution and if you are interested in ordering, try a small order first! Americans are not allowed to purchase Cuban cigars of any kind at any time due to the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba. A copy of the hard-to-believe but completely lawful U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations concerning Cuban tobacco products is available by clicking here. OFAC levies fines against five for buying Cuban cigars The U.S Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a unit of the U.S. Treasury, was especially active in July, issuing 19 penalties against entities and individuals who violated various embargo provisions, including those against Cuba. Of the 19 actions, 14 involved Cuba and the others involved Iran, Liberia and Burma. Five fines were levied against individuals who purchased Cuban cigars via the Internet: These actions bring the OFAC’s total Cuban-cigar-violations total to 23 separate incidents through the first seven months of the year, compared to 13 for all of 2007. The total amount of fines imposed now total $31,254.33, an average of $1,358.88 per incident. ~ Rich Perelman CLASSIFIED ADVERTISINGCigar Humidors and Cigar Accessories at Humidor Vault! Your online cigar humidor source, with rock-bottom pricing and fantastic customer support!Like sports? Get news and commentary you won’t see in your morning newspaper at TheSportsExaminer.com! Join the examination! A limited amount of classified advertising is available in this space on a weekly basis. For details, call Pat Harris at (213) 365-7965 or inquire by email by clicking here. Have an opinion? You can send it using the “Comment” button below! Don’t forget to register for our drawing for free cigars and accessories! Just click on the “Register & Win” button above; enter today! Looking for a cigar party? Take a look at our exclusive list of hundreds of cigar events across the country, listed by state and date, only on CigarCyclopedia.com!
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Hi, Where are you guys going on the web? Solocigars.com always has the overall lowest prices! Cohiba...Robusto $196 Monty...#1 $157 R&J... Churchil $235 These guys will even call you and see what your favorite is and beat the web price posted....Thanks, Turbo |
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RE the fines against purchasers of Cubans: It is SO time to end this ridiculous embargo. I know I'm speaking blasphemy as far as the cigar companies who own the U.S. rights to the trademarks/brandnames go, but we do big business with every other remaining communist country with the small exception of N. Korea, and we even do a little business with them, so at this point, the only ones getting anything out of the embargo are those companies who've come up with ways to profit off it, and all the other countries who don't honor it. And the ones being hurt by it are the people of Cuba (not the govt.) who are caught in the middle--and those of us who'd like to smoke an Habana now and then. We have a huge amount of great cigars available to us in the U.S., but there's room for Cubans too--and the share of the market they'd take is not likely big enough to hurt the already existing brands, even if a few brandnames have to be changed here and there. |
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