You may want to stray away from Cuban cigars rolled between now and the end of the year. According to reports, the communist nation is running seriously low on toilet paper, and officials at government companies say it may be until 2010 before supply catches up.
Ref. http://www.stogieguys.com/

When I was in the Dominican, one of the rollers from Cuba was telling me how Cuba was low on tobacco, and have been from the hurricanes for a while. They had been purchasing Nicaraguan tobacco to mix in to stretch out what they have. On top of that, they were still selling them as "Cuban" cigars, as they were Cuban. I didn't believe him, until I was at another factory and I was talking to them about how I thought blends with Cuban tobacco would be interesting after the embargo. The guy proceeded to tell me it is already being done. Then he proceeded to tell me the same thing I was told by the roller at the other factory.

That mirrors what we were told at the Big Smoke last year that Cuban tobacco supplies would likely be low for several years following last year's devastating hurricanes. I think it was that Commie suck-up, James Suckling, that was talking about it (he's one of the few people still alive that believe that Cuba is a "worker's paradise"). He was saying that not only were most of the curing barns destroyed last year, but there was little hope that they would be rebuilt anytime soon because of a lack of materials and that quite a few people were replanting fields with beans and other food crops because food supplies were so low.

Bottom line (which may be a bad pun considering Dartfrog's original post!), supplies of Cuban tobacco are going to be strained for a while, so high-quality smokes are likely to be more expensive and the ones that are not more expensive are likely to be lower-quality.