Cigars

[rondog]

Edwards Tobacco on Broadway, just n. of Hampden. Great shop, been going there for years. Excellent selection, good prices, friendly, knowledgable staff, smoking lounge in back, 10% discount on Fridays after 3, and 2 gun shops within walking distance! Everyone should pop into M.W. Reynolds sometime just to gawk at the 4- and 5-figure sporting guns they have. Not what you'd expect to find on Broadway amongst the pot shops.

I smoke A. Fuente Cubanitos, small cigars that come in a tin. Very good, I just don't care for full-size cigars much. Take so long to smoke, and I'll have a headache by the time I'm done.

From what I've read, there's just as many crappy bootleg "Cuban" cigars actually produced in Cuba as bootleg Cubans from anywhere else. Just because they come from Cuba and may have a high-end Cuban brand name on them doesn't mean they're genuine and really from that maker. And all the big-name cigar makers have long since started operations in other Caribbean countries nearby to get around the embargo, and they all use Cuban seed tobacco anyway, so it's kind of a non-issue. Cohibas from Honduras are just as tasty as Cuban Cohibas.