"Lift the embargo" talk always makes me chuckle to myself. Usually when you see it on these types of forums people jump to sign them because they have these illusions (delusions?) that all of a sudden there's just going to be magically delicious cuban cigars everywhere! ISOM's for all!
Obviously there is more to it than just cigars. There have been some great points made already so I'll leave it at that. And honestly while some of us have been able to experience some great cuban CCs, if I never got my hands on one ever again I can't say that I'd be heartbroken. There are so many fantastic NC smokes out that are cheaper and so much easire to get. Mistique has a lot to do with it, I suppose. Kind of like how its so alluring to get sh*t-faced fall down drunk when youre under legal drinking age but then once you're 21, the allure of scoring alcoholic beverages fades away. Maybe i'm just rambling.
And of course with the federal government dying to get their hands into regulating premium cigars, you can damn sure guarantee that if the embargo was magically lifted, and all of a sudden ISOMs were raining from the sky, the tax and pricing would be so incredible that they wouldn't be worth getting anyway.