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TAMPA — For American cigar aficionados, Cuban tobacco is the forbidden fruit, long-blocked from the United States market by its five-decade-old embargo on the island nation.

The Dominican Republican sent the most -- 134 million. The future The embargo is still in place, which means wide-scale importation and sale of Cuban cigars and tobacco is off the table.

Cuba today 40 photos The change does not mean that Cuban rum and cigars will be available for sale in the U.S. - the change is aimed at tobacco and alcohol brought home for personal use.

Even if the cigar craze of the 1990s is over and the embargo is still in place, the smoking of a fine Cuban cigar is still one of life's greatest sensual pleasures.

Cuban cigar sales tumbled 8 percent to $360 million in 2009 and have fallen by more than a tenth in the past two years as the demand for luxury goods around the world has plunged.

Federal agents launched an all-out war on the cigar bar set yesterday raiding two exclusive East Side spots and making a series of arrests in a crackdown on the sale of illegally imported Cuban ...

And while American visitors who do make it to Cuba will be able to return with rum and cigars, exporting them for sale in the United States still isn’t in the works.

For Cuban cigar producers, the air is filled with smoke and the realization that the industry needs to prepare for what many hope will be the eventual lifting of all us economic sanctions on Cuba ...