History Main / ItsCuban

* ''ComicBook/HeroesRebornFantasticFour'': Johnny brings a hospitalized Ben a Montecristo cigar "straight from Havana" as a nice gesture.

* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/HogansHeroes'' when Klink tries to butter up the visiting General Burkhalter by offering a tray of delicacies from across German-occupied Europe. Burkhalter takes one of Klink's cigars, sniffs it, and sours in disgust. Klink apologizes and says it's a ''German'' cigar, and Burkhalter muses that they should've invaded Cuba.

'''Jerry:''' Cigars!\\

* Averted in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' when [[TheDragon John Greer]], a former British Intelligence agent from the TuxedoAndMartini days, lights up an expensive Gurkha cigar.

** The "Delectados" get a MythologyGag in ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', where Bond finds the remains of a cigar of that very brand at his house in Jamaica. It turns out the cigar was smoked by his CIA friend Felix Leiter, who appropriately recruits him for a mission in Cuba.

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* In the second book of ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'' after becoming a successful magician detective, Max accidentally discovers his former supervisors[[note]]Middle managers in a small news outlet.[[/note]] smoke Sumatra cigars despite claiming them to be Havana. Considering, how little the price differs in Russia and Germany, this makes them real cheapskates.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "Forever", the CSI team find tobacco shreds in a horse's mouth. Identifying the tobacco as coming from a Cuban cigar, they start looking for a suspect who might have access to (illegal) Cuban cigars. This leads them to a former concierge from a top-end hotel.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' when Ted gets upset by Barney smoking a cigar in his car, Barney mentions that it is a cuban cigar and that people pay to make their cars smell like them.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'': In "[[Recap/TheSopranosS1E10AHitIsAHit A Hit is a Hit]]" Tony gifts his next-door neighbor Bruce Cusamano some premium Cuban cigars. Bruce marvels at them, and throughout the conversation it's implied Tony managed to procure them because he's a mafioso.

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* In ''Series/TheCleaningLady'', Armand has sufficient connections that he's able to procure whole boxes of Cuban cigars. He gives them to favored customers as a bonus to help sell his regular merchandise, sometimes having his wife Nadia smoke one to demonstrate their supposed potency.

In American media, Cuban cigars, which were banned in the United States after Fidel Castro seized UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} in 1959 (an embargo that was only lifted in 2016), have generally been considered items that [[NoExportForYou cannot be acquired without the right connections and/or money]]. Therefore for a character to offer or have a Cuban cigar is usually used as shorthand for having one or both. Because of the reasons why Cuban cigars had that status in the first place, there is usually also a sense of nefariousness added to whoever has or offers the cigars in question.

->'''Jerry:''' They're real Cubans?! They're human beings, from Cuba?!\\
'''Kramer:''' I said Cubans. What'd you think I meant?\\

'''Kramer:''' Jerry, Cuban cigars are illegal in this country. That's why I got these guys.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'': In "[[Recap/TheSopranosS1E10AHitIsAHit A Hit is a Hit]]" Tony gifts his next-door neighbor Barry Cusamano some premium Cuban cigars. Barry marvels at them, and throughout the conversation it's implied Tony managed to procure them because he's a mafioso.

* Played for laughs several times in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. In one instance, Kramer gets a box of Cuban cigars from George's fiance's father, which he accidentally uses to burn down her father's cabin. Another time, Kramer hatches a scheme to bring in Cuban refugees to roll Cuban cigars for him in America, but they turn out to be Dominicans and thus inferior cigar rollers.

** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', Bond meets with a shady Swiss banker in Bilbao, Spain, and the banker's assistant offers him a Cuban cigar in a holster. After fighting his way out and coming back to London, Bond offers the cigar to Moneypenny... who promptly throws it in her trash can.

** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', Bond meets with a shady Swiss banker in Bilbao, Spain, and the banker's assistant offers him a Cuban cigar in a holster. After fighting his way out with the money and coming back to London, Bond offers the cigar to Moneypenny... who promptly throws it in her trash can.

* In ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', Film/JamesBond goes to Cuba to find a sleeper agent who happens to have a cigar factory as his cover. Bond asks for "Delectados", to which he's answered that "they don't make them anymore". It's actually the sleeper agent's CodeName.

In American media, Cuban cigars, which were banned in the United States after Fidel Castro seized UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} in 1959 (an embargo that was only lifted in 2016), have generally been considered items that cannot be acquired without the right connections and/or money. Therefore for a character to offer or have a Cuban cigar is usually used as shorthand for having one or both. Because of the reasons why Cuban cigars had that status in the first place, there is usually also a sense of nefariousness added to whoever has or offers the cigars in question.

* ''Film/DrStrangelove'' touches on the politics behind the embargo in a scene where Soviet Ambassador DeSadesky asks for "Havana cigars". When an American general offers him Jamaican cigars, he sneers that he "does not support the work of imperialist stooges", to which the general responds "Only Commie stooges, huh?"

* Averted in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' when TheDragon lights up an expensive Gurkha cigar.