Cuban cigars and the law

Hmmm... I was under the impression that it was illegal to buy Cuban cigars and bring them into the U.S.. I don't know of any law that prevents anyone from buying and smoking one in another country.

About.com has the following to say:

"Cuban Cigars Are Illegal at Home and Abroad
Technically, although an American citizen cannot even purchase or smoke a Cuban cigar while traveling abroad, there may not be any practical way to enforce the restriction."

http://cigars.about.com/od/cubantradeembargo/qt/0062002a.htm

The Governator was just in Canadia, where Cuban cee-gars are big business. When you cross from Detroit to Windsor, and head out Huron Church Road, it seems like every other business is either a strip joint, or sells Cuban cee-gars. I doubt that anyone makes a serious effort to enforce these laws. It is pretty rare for Customs and Immigration to search the car when you come back from Canadia--even with all the September 11th hooplah. Windsor has for sale far more Cuban cee-gars than it is likely that the citizens of Windsor smoke themselves (even if old ladies and little kids smoke them), so the inference is rather strong that these shops exist to sell Cuban smokes to American visitors who will then casually smuggle them into the U.S.

It would be hilarious, though, to see them arrest the Governator for this.

I guess there were pictures of him lighting up the cubans.

Now how can they not arrest him? Everyone knows he broke the law.

That is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard, is that even legal?

Arrest him? holy **** it shouldn't even be an issue, this is possibly one of the most, for lack of a batter word, RETARDED things i have ever heard of.

I agree the law is ridiculous, however, it is black and white here - there is proof that he broke the law, but no arrest. Just wondering if anything would actually come of it.

No! No one touches the terminator!

Besides, it's even more silly to keep the embargo against Cuba up
for that long. Only in America!

QFT!

Here's one of them:

How would they prove he wasn't firing up a Dominican Cohiba? Here in Florida, people cruise the the Bahamas regularly and frequently return with a box of Cubans. As a rule of thumb; one box for personal use will usually be looked past. I've never hesitated to bring a box home with me. As a matter of "Law" those duty free cigarettes aren't supposed to return to the U.S. with you either... but when the they bust your balls at Customs; that's all they're doing is ball-busting. They don't even confiscate them.

They might use 27 8x10 color glossy pictures of the cigar band that says "Havana, Cuba" on it as evidence against him.

In the news report, it was the clerk that sold him the cuban that answered these questions from the media.

Sideffects of smoking Cuban cigars include communism.

I'd prefer not to have this country overrun with Reds AGAIN. Trust me, you don't want to be on my secret list.