The Cuban cigar has become a bit of a unicorn to the American cigar smoker since the Cuban embargo banned the importation of all products from the island on February 7th, 1962. According to CigarAficionado.com, Drew Newman of J.C. Newman Cigar Company got the idea to petition the U.S. Government to allow the company to import raw Cuban leaf into their factory after he read an article about the government permitting the importation of Cuban coffee. “If the Cuban government believes that their cigar rollers are some of the best in the world, they should not be afraid of having American cigar makers roll cigars with Cuban tobacco again just like we did before the embargo.