what is this cigar?

[Desert Rat]

picked it up at the local smokeshop. did a lot of googling before i came here...

Probably the easisest way to identify cigars is to ask the smoke shop fella when you buy the cigars.

Welcome. its sounds as if you are eager to enter cigar land .

[Lazy1]

I'm not sure who makes the Cohiba "Knockoff" Or "Yellow Label." They are outlawed in the US because General Cigar makes Dominican Cohiba "Red Dot" Cohiba website at General Cigar
They, General Cigar, sued the "Other" Cohiba maunfacturer for copyright infringement and won.
The "Knockoff" Cohiba company was told to stop making the Yellow Label Cohibas but, they were allowed to sell off all remaining stock of their brand. Thus the "Illegal Cohiba"
Eventually you will stop seeing the yellow label stuff at your local shop. But if you like them smoke'em while you can.

And No they are nothing like the Cuban Cohibas.

Leo

[Newfie]

Hey Dual, where in Michigan?? I'm close to Windsor, just across the River.

[dual]

I'm not sure who makes the Cohiba "Knockoff" Or "Yellow Label." They are outlawed in the US because General Cigar makes Dominican Cohiba "Red Dot" Cohiba website at General Cigar
They, General Cigar, sued the "Other" Cohiba maunfacturer for copyright infringement and won.
The "Knockoff" Cohiba company was told to stop making the Yellow Label Cohibas but, they were allowed to sell off all remaining stock of their brand. Thus the "Illegal Cohiba"
Eventually you will stop seeing the yellow label stuff at your local shop. But if you like them smoke'em while you can.

And No they are nothing like the Cuban Cohibas.

Leo

hey thanks for the info. i dont even think the cohiba knockoffs i got here are the same as the ones linked to on this thread. the ones here dont say cohiba, but they have the yellow and black label, with the womans head in gold. doesnt look quite like the one on that website from pg 1 of the thread

and newfie, im up north... alpena. pretty boring!

thanks for welcoming me so kindly, chaps.