With all the fuss about Cuban cigars, Nicaraguan-grown leaves, and Turkish tobacco, some US-born premium cigar aficionados might be wondering: Why can't I just buy American? Of course, Cuba and Nicaragua are parts of "America" (Central America), something that Canadians and Mexicans, too, get tired of mentioning to US residents who insist on using the word "American" to mean "from the US." But, that little misnomer aside, the question is an interesting one. After all, with due respect to Cuba (where the modern art of the cigar was born), it's not like the United States is deficient in designing novel ways to spend one's leisure time. We are the country that brought you the Internet, paperback books, cheap can beer, feature filmmaking (at least if you follow the standard reckoning that posits D.W. Griffith's 1915 melodrama Birth of a Nation as the first truly full-length movie), McDonalds, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, and Pong. Not to mention Star Wars, televised sport, YouTube, workout centers with TVs over all the treadmills, and comic strips.