Machine made cigar imports up 27%, premium cigar imports flat

(CigarCyclopedia) Even with the difficult economy and continuing expansions of smoking bans, the number of premium cigars imported into the U.S. in September showed surprising strength.
In fact, September 2010 imports were essentially even with the total from that month in 2009 and 2008, at just more than 26 million cigars: Continued