http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/17/cuban-cigars-legal_n_6341576.html
President John F. Kennedy first made Cuban cigars illegal in the U.S. as part of a broad embargo in 1962 — though not before ordering 1,000 of them for himself. There was a time when the relative few Americans authorized to travel to Cuba could bring back $100 worth of cigars, though that loophole had lately been closed.
