Ashton Cigars

Someone told me they were smoking a Cuban cigar Ashton 1986
London. Ashton did not make a Cuban cigar?

Just put your friend is lying or has no idea what he speaks. Ashtons have never been to Cuba. Several of their cigars have been considered more important than the Cubans, however.

Ashton cigars, wrapped in a sheet of Connecticut with Cuban seed Dominican binder, are produced in three different styles with distinct flavors: Ashton Cabinet Selection Ashton older and older Ashton Maduro. With the aging additional selection of Cabinet is the sweetest. The Maduro seniors using broadleaf wrappers, provides a sweet smoke with a sweet taste.

Ashton cigar was launched by Robert Levin, a tobacco Philadelphiean in 1985. The charge sheet is Dominican and the packaging is either Connecticut or Ecuador.

So no, your friend has never smoked a Cuban Ashton as they have never been and are not done in Cuba. In addition, he probably does not even smoke a Ashton all in London around 1986, because the company had just started less than a year before the United States.