Can I carry a box of cigars onto a plane?

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Originally Posted by GWN

Just went to Jamaica last month, albeit from Canada, with a full cigar caddy. No issues.
Not every single Habanos I cam across was a fake, even in the airport duty free.
Might be worth throwing a bic or two into your checked baggage. The humidity was hell on matches and the overpriced lighter I bought at our resort lasted all of a day.

Actually, US regulations ban the transport of lighters in checked baggage unless they are in approved transport containers. Not to say that they don't sneak by without the transport containers, but technically they are not permitted. On the flip side, you are permitted by US TSA regulations to carry a single soft flame lighter, ie: BIC, in your carry on along with one box/pack of non-strike anywhere matches.

As mentioned previously in this thread, for US TSA, jet flame lighters are banned under all circumstances in carry-ons.

By regulations, cutters are fine for carry on, as are punches, but of course, these are always subject to the screener's discretion.

A box of cigars should be no problem.

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Here is the page from the TSA website.

http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/prohib...s_brochure.pdf