HAVANA — It’s the equivalent of buying a Gucci bag on Canal Street. Vendors who fill Havana’s streets selling black-market cigars to unsuspecting tourists are salivating over President Obama’s ...

The government of Fidel Castro has recently introduced new customs regulations aimed to prevent cheaply priced counterfeit Habanos cigars from being taken out of the country by foreign tourists or ...

Capitalism has its advantages, comrade. A federal judge in Manhattan yesterday said American trademark law protects Cuba’s premium Cohiba brand of cigars and ordered a New York company to quit selling ...

The one sure way cigar aficionados can tell if a Cuban cigar is real or fake is to smoke it, but customs officials can't indulge in that luxury. That's why researchers at the Canada Customs and ...

Americans lusting after the legendary stogies made in Cuba have created a multimillion dollar boom for Canadian cigar shops. But now many Yanks venturing north for the forbidden smokes are getting ...

Cigar aficionados beware: those handmade Montecristos, Cohibas and Romeo y Julietas may not be the premium smokes they seem. Law enforcement and cigar industry officials say counterfeiters are ...

Beware of fake cigars. They may be a home for creepy crawlies that could make you throw up. Beware of fake cigars. They may be a home for creepy crawlies that could make you throw up. This is the ...

Miami, Florida-Eight people will be arraigned today on charges they took part in a counterfeit Cuban cigar ring that brought in millions of dollars. The people were arrested after authorities seized ...