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I recently stopped smoking cigars. I was smoking up to 10 good ones a day when I stopped last Mother's Day. I am a nicotine addict, and even though I did not have any medical problems when I stopped. I had been chewing, dipping Copenhagen, or smoking cigars since I was 10 years old playing baseball.

I stopped all of this using the new vapor method, and although I still get my nicotine in this way, I no longer am taking the risk with all the other carcinogens and poisons that go along with the nicotine ingestion conventionally, and the vapor I now exhale does not offend or in any way endanger others. I have regained my sense of smell as well. I personally actually smell better myself, there is no smoke odor hanging around me all the time.

I have smoked a lot of the "illegal" Cuban cigars over the years, including several that were from a box that was distributed to VIP contributors to a recent, (within the last 20 years), presidential candidate's successful bid for the office. The whole Cuban cigar "embargo", in my opinion, was a joke, and I know for certain that Cuban cigars are, and have been, available to anyone with the cash to buy them throughout the entire "embargo". I think it was high-time to end the whole fiasco.

That being said, it is, at least in my vast experience with cigars, impossible to get a truly great cigar from Cuba anymore. When the "embargo" began, the great cigar manufacturers picked up and moved to countries within South America, at least for the most part, and they took all the seed for the best tobaccos and manufacturing knowledge with them when they left. The situation as it exists now is that the very best cigars are not made in Cuba at all, they are from Nicaragua and the Honduras.

If you want a true Cuban cigar flavor, as it existed before the "embargo", try a Comacho, Padron, or even an Alec Bradley Tempus Quadrum, or Prensada. These are the cigars that consistently beat the current cigars produced in Cuba in most all categories cigar smokers consider important to a cigar's quality.

I currently maintain a very large humidor that is full of ALL types of rare and expensive cigars. (over 3000 of them). Since I never intend to actually light or even chew on another one, I have been giving them away to my customers and friends and relatives who still have not seen the "light" regarding the modern, less harmful, way of satisfying our addiction. I would highly recommend that if anyone nicotine-addicted, as I am,wants a Cuban cigar, they should get a vapor Zeus vaporizer, (look and feel of a real cigar), and a vial of Premium WOW Cuban Cigar Nobacco juice to use in a blank Smilomizer cartridge. It is much healthier than any other alternative, and your loved ones will appreciate your effort. :)

Oh, and that picture of me I use for my avatar was from BEFORE I stopped smoking the real thing. The cigar I am smoking there was a Nicaraguan manufactured for me there, and only cost me about $ 1.35 after shipping per 1000 count. :) Those particular cigars were of better quality and flavor than any Cuban I have ever smoked in both quality and feel, as well as flavor. To this day, all the cigar smokers I know continue to ask for these over the true Cubans available now or for the past 20 years.