Meaning of "Cuban" blends

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Originally Posted by pektel

I normally find it a ploy by non-Cuban cigar companies to try to sell more cigars.

99% of all tobacco grown outside of cuba can be traced back to cuban seeds, people were stuffing their socks full of them when they were leaving the island during the revolution. I take it to be a ploy as well, which was very frustrating when working at a cigar shop and having to explain to people that, just because the box has "cuban" on it, they were not actually cuban cigars