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It's legally technical but Cuba has sought to challenge General on the Cohiba brand. In order to legally challenge someone you have to have "standing" to bring the suit. General successfully argued in a lower court that Cuba didn't have standing to challenge the trademark use in the US because of the embargo. This decision was overturned by the Supreme Court so now the actual lawsuit can begin.

I have my own ritual that's kind of a mix of slow and fast. I use a torch to evenly char the foot I don't "toast", but unlike the video, I try not to burn the crap out of the wrapper, then I puff and light. The only "different" thing I do is after I get the light, I immediately flip it around and blow on the foot to make sure I have a nice even ember without puffing and hot boxing it.

The "win" today had to do with granting Cuba the right to sue, not deciding the trademark issue. The case has been sent back down to discuss the actual issue at hand. Nothing settled yet.

As an outsider looking in, I have to say that I think both Scotland and England are better off together. Scotland is already afforded a great deal of autonomy and the Scottish national identity seems to be in tact. I don't see how they would be better off politically or economically after separating from the UK, oil money or not. If someone knows different I'd be glad to hear it.

These bands were initially released with the Cohiba Piramides Extra. They are the new standard band according to cubancigarwebsite.com

Gurkhas - MSRP of $35 per stick, on sale for $4.47!

Learned my lesson the other night. I took the "struggle through it" option. Ended up with a mild toothache and a sore jaw... Now if the pre-light draw is tight I'll take the pipe tool to it and if that doesn't work I'll dry box for a few days.

Figured as much, but the Internet site of record had 2012 listed so I thought I'd make sure. Thanks!

Buddy of mine received a box from a bonafide online vendor (not our host). The box code is September 13 but it's sporting the last generation band that doesn't have the gold embossing. According to cubancigarwebsite.com this band went out of date in 2012. What are other folks seeing on their Monte 2s? I noticed a review of the petit 2 and it had the gold. Thanks

Hey I'll glom onto this noob thread for my own noob question... Why the lack of hand picked Cohibas? Is it because they are all fairly consistent being Cuba's premier marca? Or is it because they sell no matter what? Or have they all been kind of mediocre? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Saw him play in a little Blues club in Minneapolis last year. Time had taken its toll, and the sound man did Johnny ZERO favors, but he was out on the road, doing what he loved until the end. We can all only hope to be so lucky. So long blues man...

Box of monte 2s Box of BPC 10er Sig 6s 10er Party 5s 5 punch punch 5 RA SS All in transit...

In my opinion this was very poorly trained Ukrainian separatists who had no idea what they were shooting at.

Roughly 100 people, A full 1/3 of the passengers were some of the worlds top AIDS researchers on their way to a conference in Melbourne. http://www.smh.com.au/national/crash-claims-top-aids-researchers-heading-to-melbourne-20140718-zuaw3.html#ixzz37mkAFtTn

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