I tried these unfortunately. These rode the coat-tails of Gurkha's pre-embargos. That was the idea with these. They took pre-embargo cuban tobacco and then horribly blended it with some other trash (Nicaraguan I think). A total waste of time and money. Avoid these. They are, as others have stated, over-priced dog-rockets. Stick to the pre-embargo Gurkhas (the idea here being, not only to be smoking some Cubans, but to be smoking some legitmately aged tobacco as well). The Gurkhas, which you can find dating to the 40's or 50's are vastly, vastly superior.