User:M. Gilder/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Expanding the "Cuban Cigar" section of the "Cigar" page

 * Option 1
 * Article title
 * Cigar


 * Article Evaluation
 * The cigar has been a staple of Cuban culture and of the Cuban Revolution. It has been an important part of the country's existence, and the subsection deserves to be expanded significantly.
 * The section on Cuban cigars is lacking in both information in general, but specifically information as it pertains to the Cuban Revolution. For example, there is mention of how there are cigar brands that, while native to Cuba, have non-native twins, that is, cigars of the same brand name that are made outside of Cuba. The article makes no mention of the fact that there was a lawsuit between the American Gulbro Corporation/General Cigar Company and Cuba's Cubatabaco in which Cubatabaco tried to sue GCC for trademark infringement and false advertising, among other things because GCC was manufacturing counterfeit Cohibas. The case was found in favor of GCC. Though the WTO stepped in because the law invoked supposedly violated TRIPS, but as far as is obvious no decision was reached on the matter. This has huge economic implications for Cuba, given that a substantial portion of their exports are cigars, and that there are approximately 17 'twin' brands to Cuba's authentic cigars. The whole affair is significant to note insofar as cigars - particularly Cohibas - are a staple of Cuban culture, and of Cuban cultural export.
 * Furthermore, there is little mention of "cigar tourism" in Cuba, a crucial element of the significant tourism market in Cuba. I have found a particularly enlightening source on that topic, and why and how it is important. This may be worth contributing to the "tourism" section of the Wiki article on Cuba, seeing as there is a brief mention of "medical tourism" there.
 * The section on the international impact of the Cuban cigar could also use some expanding.
 * The cultural significance of the Cuban cigar cannot be understated. It would be worth adding a sub-heading beneath the Cuban Cigar heading that addresses some of the various works of art and pop culture pertaining to the Cuban cigar. For example, Marylin Bobes' "His Cigar" would be worth mentioning.
 * Many of the sources I have are fit to be assets to articles outside of the Cuba Cigar subsection, but I believe most of my time will be spent editing the Cuban Cigar subsection of the Cigar page.


 * Sources
 * Marylin Bobes, “His Cigar,” in The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Second Edition, Revised and Updated, ed. Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2019), 630-631. Jean Stubbs, “El Habano and the World It Has Shaped: Cuba, Connecticut, and Indonesia,” in Cuban Studies, 2010, Vol. 41 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010), 39-67.  Jill Lane, “Smoking Habaneras, or A Cuban Struggle with Racial Demons,” in Social Text 104, Vol. 28, No. 3, Fall 2010 (Duke University Press, 2010), 11-37.  Joseph M. Perry, Louis A. Woods, and Stephen L. Shapiro, “Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade in Cuban Products,” in Cuba in Transition, Volume 10, Papers and Proceeedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Associatiation for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), (the Associatiation for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 2003), 77-87.  Kent Jones, “Cuba, the centrally planned cigar, and its rivals,” in The World Economy, 2019 (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019), 2900-2923.  Valerio Simoni, “Scaling cigars in the Cuban tourism economy,” in Etnografica Vol. 13, November 2009 (Centro em Rede de Investigacao em Antropologia, 2009), 417-438.  Richard L. Bernal, “Cuban Economic Reform: American, Cuban and Caribbean Perspectives,” in Social and Economic Studies Vol 65, June/September 2016 (Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, 2016), 196-201.  Stephen G. Rabe, “Failed Initiatives: The New Dialogue, Cuba,” in Kissinger and Latin America: Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy (Cornell University Press, 2020), 209-233.  Willem Middelkoop, “The History of the Dollar,” in The Big reset: War on Gold and the Financial Endgame (Amsterdam University Press, 2016), 64-104.  Michael Riley, “Cigars and Rum: Hazardous to the Health of Intellectual Property Law? How the Cohiba Cigar and Havana Club Run Cases Reveal a 'Carve-Out' for Intellectual Property Disputes with a Cuban Nexus,” in The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, Vol. 38, Winter 2006/2007 (University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, 2007), 457-486.  Jean Stubbs: “Turning Over a New Leaf? The Havana Cigar Revisited,” in New West Indian Guide, Vol. 74, 2000, (Brill on behalf of the KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, 2000), 235-255.  Lynn D. Wenger, Ruth E. Malone, Anne George, and Lisa A. Bero, “Using Tobacco to Sell a Lifestyle,” in Tobacco Control, Vol. 10, September 2001 (British Medical Journal, 2001) 279-284.  Christine D Delnevo, Danial P Giovenco, Bridget K Ambrose, Catherine G Corey, and Kevin P Conway, “Preference for flavoured cigar brands among youth, young adults and adults in the USA,” in Tobacco Control, Vol. 24, July 2015 (British Medical Journal, 2015), 389-394.  Manuel Cantavella-Jorda and Carlos Guerra, “A Demand for Cuban Tobacco Exports,” in The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 47, Fall 2013 (Tennessee State University College of Business, 2013), 93-107.  Rishabh Singh, “Combating Smoking in Cuba,” in International Journal of Cuban Studies, Vol. 1, June 2008 (Pluto Journals, 2008), 76-91.  Junling Gao, Carla J Berg, Lulu Huang, Pinpin Zheng, Hua Fu, “What are the sales practices of internet cigar vendors in China?”, in Tobacco Control, Vol. 24, May 2015 (British Medical Journal), 298-302