I somewhat agree with Darren though I don't necessarily think it will be a bad thing in whole. It will however cause a huge decline in quality of cigars. I believe there was a push this past year to see if they could produce 200 million cigars which would be what they need to produce to "keep up" with a demand that lifting the embargo would create. They fell short of the 200 million and produced closer to 150 million and quality has been actually pretty good in the first part of the year, but some of the newer, that is late 2000, cigars are lacking in quality and the rumor is that some of the blends are actually the same in different cigars, just the shapes changed. This is just rumor and the new smokes are too young to really tell if they will be any good. Lifting the embargo will help the country of Cuba though. And while I fret having to pay triple for my favorite smokes, I would like to be able to walk into the coffee mart and buy cuban coffee or into the liquor store and pick up a bottle of HC 7. One more note would be that for the most part I think for myself, even if I could got to the local tobacconist and buy island cigars I would probably buy from overseas still.