Dark cover Havanas are stronger then light colored ones. False. The cover is the showing part, but it represents a small percentage of the leaves forming the cigar. The internal leaves are the ones that make it strong or light.

Smaller Havanas are lighter than bigger ones. False. The short one is usually the stronger and less aromatic.

A Havana only tastes good if lighted with wooden matches. False. As Cuban Havana manufacturers say, "Fire does not has flavor". We subscribe this statement with a certain reserve. Excepting gasoline and candles, lighters do not transmit odors to the cigar.

The growers' cigars are better than those from factories. False. They are worst. The growers do not always follow the careful process that makes Havanas unique; neither are their cigars regularly done by good "torcedores".