10. It was Christopher Columbus who first discovered the famous Cohiba cigar (You know the guy who discovered America in 1492). Since he wrote practically everything down in his journal, he wrote that the land they had discovered was not India, China or Japan and in this land there was no treasure to be found.

Except for the fact that the men on the island of Colba (Or Cuba as its called today) perfumed themselves with certain ‘herbs’ and inhaled smoke from burning of Cohiba leaves. Soon it turned out that what they discovered was worth more than any treasure they ever hoped to find, and that was tobacco.

9. King Edward VII was happy as anyone could be when he succeeded his anti-smoking mother Victoria as a monarch of the British Empire. He actually greeted all the tobacco-starved courtiers of Buckingham Palace with the famous phrase “Gentleman, you may smoke!”.

8. Samuel Langhorne Clemens or better known to the world as the famous author ‘Mark Twain’, was caught saying “If cigar smoking were not permitted in heaven, he would happily go to the other place”. Mark Twain actually started smoking at the age of 8, what a legend!

7. The famous comedian W.C Fields, wholeheartedly credited his success to a daily dose of cigars and whiskey that started in his childhood.

6. Tia Carrera and Demi Moore were the first Hollywood ladies to make cigar smoking popular between the female actresses in the 1990s. The image of young hot ladies smoking cigars created the ‘Femme Fatale’ image and soon many females followed suit.

5. Bill Clinton celebrated the rescue of the American pilot who was shot down in Bosnia, by lighting up a Romeo Y Julieta despite Hilary’s no smoking rules.

4. On the 80th birthday of George Burns in 1977, Milton Berle lit his and George’s cigar. Both of these comedians started smoking cigars as kids, Milton started at the age of 12!

3. Talk about quality control, Edward the ‘Duke of Windsor’ personally inspected the Cuban factory that made his favorite cigars. Talk about passion!

2. Groucho Marx’s image was all about having a cigar in his mouth at all times. Once a woman told him that she had nine kids because she loved her husband so much, Marx being the ‘wise guy’ that he was responded “I like a cigar too but every once in a while I take it out of my mouth!”.

1. We all know that Cuban Cigars are not sold within the USA. The man responsible for the embargo was Mr. John F Kennedy. His story gets worst because right before the ban, he ordered his own press secretary Pierre Salinger to get his brand of Cuban Cigars, the ‘Upmanns’, in the thousands so he could have his very own stash in the White House. Now, I don’t think that was fair but you be the judge.