Bill Moyers loved a good cigar, as did Al Haig. Moyer's was coming down the hall to attend a press briefing early in the Reagan years and found Haig smoking outside. Moyers saw the band and said, "Why Al, that's a Cuban cigar! I wouldn't have thought that of you." Haig answered back, "Destroying the enemies crops one cigar at a time, Bill." Haig gave Moyers a couple he had stashed in his jacket pocket and they both went inside. There are embargo's you pay attention to, and others you don't.
The ban on Cuban cigars was one that was never going to work, there's nothing else like them when they're on. JFK was breaking that one almost as soon as he declared it. A fella has to have his sticks.