Cuban tobacco
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You can probably get some good cigar sticks, however I wouldn't think pipes are so hot down there. Also, I would avoid trying to bring any tobacco from there back to the US.
Only cigar tobacco is grown in Cuba. Maybe you want to try our sister site - Cigar Chronicles - Cigar Magazine
Cigar leaf can be blended with pipe tobacco. Russ O, Greg Pease, C&D, McClelland have all done it. Granted, it's probably not leaf from Havana (obvious legal hurdles), but I'm just sayin'...
Yes, one way that you know you have entered Canada from the States is that every block has a store advertising its Cuban cigars. 
Pipe tobacco you really have to search for but Cuban cigars are everywhere, I mean every where, in any city that gets a lot of American tourists.
Pipe tobacco you really have to search for but Cuban cigars are everywhere, I mean every where, in any city that gets a lot of American tourists.
Yes what macnutz said is true. It's hard to find pipe tobacco, but you can get a Cuban cigar at just about every other corner store. I really love Cuban cigars, so much so, that I was thinking of getting a cigar, cut it into plugs and stick it in my pipe. I saw a video posted on here of a guy doing that, very good idea.
For me it's not really the time that bothers me, it's the prices for a real nice cigar. I'm personally a huge fan of Cohibas, but not so much of the prices. But at the same time, if I smoke it in my pipe instead, I can prob get 4-8 plugs depending on the length and guage of the stogie.
Even though Cuba is known for it's cigar tobacco, they do have a pipe tobacco blend. Of course it's made from the same tobacco that goes into cigars. It's not bad but not that great either.
A friend of mine who is friend of the Robainas, bring back for me some 5 year old wrapper cigar leaves from the Robaina farm (Vuelta Abajo in Planar del Rio.) I chop these up and smoke in a pipe. A very enjoyable smoke in and of itself. Sometimes after snipping the cap off, I'll get a plugged Cuban cigar. I don't even bother lighting it. It immediately goes into a coffee grinder and smoke in my pipe. I like to have some chopped/grinded Cuban cigar leaf kicking around to mix with other blends or to smoke as is.
I love pipe smoking and 80% of my smoking is pipe smoking. But my first love is cigars, particularly Cuban cigars. I go to Cuban quite frequently and everytime the focus is cigars. I don't even bring a pipe along. It'd be like bringing sand to the beach. It's "awful" sometimes between the $8-$10 rum, cheap cigars, great weather, live music and the best ambiance for smoking anywhere in the world, I'm usually drunk or recovering from a hangover and always in a state of nicotine intoxication.
A friend of mine who is friend of the Robainas, bring back for me some 5 year old wrapper cigar leaves from the Robaina farm (Vuelta Abajo in Planar del Rio.) I chop these up and smoke in a pipe. A very enjoyable smoke in and of itself. Sometimes after snipping the cap off, I'll get a plugged Cuban cigar. I don't even bother lighting it. It immediately goes into a coffee grinder and smoke in my pipe. I like to have some chopped/grinded Cuban cigar leaf kicking around to mix with other blends or to smoke as is.
I love pipe smoking and 80% of my smoking is pipe smoking. But my first love is cigars, particularly Cuban cigars. I go to Cuban quite frequently and everytime the focus is cigars. I don't even bring a pipe along. It'd be like bringing sand to the beach. It's "awful" sometimes between the $8-$10 rum, cheap cigars, great weather, live music and the best ambiance for smoking anywhere in the world, I'm usually drunk or recovering from a hangover and always in a state of nicotine intoxication.
Peretti's has a blend that is their oldest mixture called "Cuban Mixture". It dates back to the early 1900s and does have a little bit of a cigar note to it. Maybe they imported some leaf before the embargo went into effect. It's a very good smoke, one of my favorites from their line.
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