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Cuban Cigars JFK Loved May End 'Forbidden Fruit' Status in U.S.

Tuesday, June 16 2009

By Mark Drajem

(Bloomberg) -- Cohibas, Partagas and Montecristos from Cuba. For U.S. cigar aficionados, the names spark thoughts of civil disobedience.

As President Barack Obama moves to ease restrictions on trade with Cuba, cigar lovers are savoring the prospect of legally lighting up a smoke that has long required a black- market connection and a willingness to flout the law.

"There's a mystique about a Cuban," said John Anderson, owner of W. Curtis Draper Tobacconist Inc., a cigar shop in Washington. "Cuban tobacco has become the forbidden fruit.

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