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Originally Posted by Flounder
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Famous is simply being creative with the ads. Using terms like "Cuban Heritage" are often used by many vendors and manufacturers to draw attention to their cigars, which in turn, increases the chances of sales.
There's nothing Cuban about those cigars except the commonality in the name and the possible involvement of a few Cuban expatriates in their blending and/or production. There is no Cuban tobacco in those cigars and they were not rolled in Cuba.
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Originally Posted by mariogolbee
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P.S. After briefly checking at your link, the cigars there are not Cuban. They do have the same brand names as many Cubans, but the rights to the names outside of Cuba are owned by General Cigar, IIRC. However, I'm not sure why you are referring to the embargo.
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FYI: General Cigar is but one of many that own US trademark rights to Cuban brand names. Altadis, MATASA, Ashton, Lignum-2 just to name a few others. The cigars featured in those samplers come from a number of these different brand owners. And, just to clarify, these trademark rights are not "to the names outside of Cuba" but rather, only to the rights of the names in the US.