A box of good quality Habanos Cuban cigars can cost thousands of dollars.<br />Every hand-rolled Cuban cigar goes through about 500 manual tasks from seed to cigar.<br />For more than 200 years, the culture of cigar making in Cuba hasn't changed.<br />The process takes about a year.<br />The tobacco leaves are grown, harvested, and hung in drying houses called secaderos before a slow fermentation occurs.<br />Each leaf is inspected for its type, appearance, and quality and handed to a torcedor, a highly skilled cigar roller, greatly respected in Cuban society.<br />According to Business Insider some experts suggest that up to 95% of all Cuban cigars in the US are actually fake.
