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Took a flight with my CC labels on...

CigSid

CigSid

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For the first time, I took a trip on a plane and left the labels on my cigars. I never wanted to take a chance on having them confiscated before. The TSA guy opened my bag, looked in my travel humidor and said "nice cigars" Times have certainly changed...
 
Yes, domestic flight. Maybe a lurker, maybe one of us in disguise... But the truth is, no one can legally take our cigars away from us now... :laugh:
 
I've never had an issue with the cigars themselves. The only incident I ever had was they were concerned about the long thin peice of metal in the cigar caddy. Yes, they were almost freaking out over the HINGE. (this was a domestic flight to boot)
 
I've never been questioned, but if they made a stink my answer would have been "...fakes, every one of them.  Prove me wrong....".
 
BlindedByScience said:
I've never been questioned, but if they made a stink my answer would have been "...fakes, every one of them.  Prove me wrong....".
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Perfect response. 
 
I have only had one issue with cigar stuff, my bullet cutter, they made me put it in a box and check it.  Before 9-11 and I went back and got a box from the check-in (24" x 30") put the cutter in and checked the box.  It was the only thing in the box.
 
One of the times when I was coming back from a Cruise and Customs wanted to see inside my travel humidor, I opened it up and luckily the top level were all padrons, Fuentes, and tats. And then I was on my way. Usually I travel with custom rolls to avoid problems but this particular time I did have a few on the bottom level that had labels on them. That would have stunk to have my own cigars confiscated.
 
Sign of the times. Progress. Personally, it's bigger than cigars. Cigars are an extra plus. A side effect if you will.
 
Big difference in bringing smokes back from a zone where CC's are legal, to a zone where CC's are not, versus flying within US borders with CC's.  Within the US, personally I'd call 'em fakes and not put up with much crap.  From a CC friendly country to the US....well, that's a different story.
 
BlindedByScience said:
Big difference in bringing smokes back from a zone where CC's are legal, to a zone where CC's are not, versus flying within US borders with CC's.  Within the US, personally I'd call 'em fakes and not put up with much crap.  From a CC friendly country to the US....well, that's a different story.
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Yeah, because in that scenario you are dealing with customs people not just the TSA. It's their job to stop the stuff from coming in.
 
BlindedByScience said:
Big difference in bringing smokes back from a zone where CC's are legal, to a zone where CC's are not, versus flying within US borders with CC's.  Within the US, personally I'd call 'em fakes and not put up with much crap.  From a CC friendly country to the US....well, that's a different story.
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True, but who's to say that I didn't bring these in from Cuba to the US months ago (legally) and I take them everywhere I go... How can they (and why would they) prove I didn't?
 
CigSid said:
 
Big difference in bringing smokes back from a zone where CC's are legal, to a zone where CC's are not, versus flying within US borders with CC's.  Within the US, personally I'd call 'em fakes and not put up with much crap.  From a CC friendly country to the US....well, that's a different story.
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True, but who's to say that I didn't bring these in from Cuba to the US months ago (legally) and I take them everywhere I go... How can they (and why would they) prove I didn't?
 
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Yeah I don't know if TSA are enforcing customs...just safety?  As long as you don't have razor blades or more than 3.5 oz of fluids in your cigars...you're good.
 
BlindedByScience said:
I've never been questioned, but if they made a stink my answer would have been "...fakes, every one of them.  Prove me wrong....".
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Having worked in a PDF during redeployment, that answer doesn't really work so well amongst the Customs folks, judging by the piles of cigars with questionable provenance.  I heard them all, too: Fakes, custom rolls, gifts... didn't even have to say "Havana" on it.  Hell, if there was any question at all by the non-cigar smoking workers, it went in the pile.  Unbanded stuff?  Pile.  Cuban Honeys?  Pile.  It was ridiculous, and absolutely nothing to be done about it at the time.  Might be a bit different now that the embassy has reopened, but I'm out of that game now, so I can't tell you for sure.
 
oke&coke said:
 
Big difference in bringing smokes back from a zone where CC's are legal, to a zone where CC's are not, versus flying within US borders with CC's.  Within the US, personally I'd call 'em fakes and not put up with much crap.  From a CC friendly country to the US....well, that's a different story.
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Yeah, because in that scenario you are dealing with customs people not just the TSA. It's their job to stop the stuff from coming in.
 
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