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Quote Originally Posted by Mangyrat View Post
Give them a few more weeks and fire one up.

Real or fake don't matter as long as its a good tasting cigar.
Gregg, I love your simplistic approach.
I agree. A friend went to Cuba and while there remembered I smoke cigars. Nice guy that he is, he bought a box of Cohiba Esplendidos off of "a guy that worked at his hotel" Needless to say, I knew immediately they were not real Esplendidos. But, they were real Cuban tobacco and decently rolled. I suspect most fakes bought in Cuba are rolled with floor sweepings or perhaps tobacco the roller grew in his backyard, they can still be a decent smoke. At $2.00 per cigar, I wasn't unhappy about buying the fakes and smoked them as "yard 'gars" while doing yard stuff. Just remember though, there's no guarantee you won't find a dog turd rolled in the middle of your fake Cuban.

The following link shows a comparison of fake as vs real cuban boxes.

http://havanajournal.com/cigars/cohibas-box

Have a look at the page and then you will have an idea what to look for on this box to see if it's real.