Despite increasing bans on tobacco use, smoking cigars will continue to have universal appeal. As the trade embargo on Cuban cigars in the U.S. is still in place, it is good to remember one of the greatest fans of Cuban cigars: the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
We can reminisce about an historic moment in U.S.-Cuba relations when President Kennedy almost broke his own embargo against the Caribbean country because of his love for the cigars.
We know the details from Kennedy's former press secretary, the ebullient Pierre Salinger.