Can I sneak cigars in through X-ray?

You can try. But they will be visible on an x-ray scanner, and, unless you hide them really well amidst other organic matter, they will be even quite distinct, as are cigarettes, for that matter. read more

A typical x-ray machine can’t tell the difference between a cigar and a tampon: they’re both organic matter that are basically x-ray invisible. This is a well-known weakness of x-ray machines, so every security team that cares about any kind of non-metal item is going to have a backup procedure to catch things that don’t show up on x-ray. read more

Gary’s jaw hung slack as the man crumbled his prize cigars into little piles of tobacco dirt. “I thought you could bring a few,” he mumbled, still in shock. The man zipped up Gary’s luggage and pushed it towards him. read more