A buddy of mine just got back from Costa Rica. I ran into him last night and he handed me a cigar. I just remembered I had it and went to light it up, and it has a warning telling me that smoking it may make me impotent. Is it a gag, or is that what the Costa Rican government requires?
My buddy is a joker, the cigar isn’t that great, and I’m suspicious.
No answer for you on the actual question, but the impotence icon on the warning label is fantastic.
It seems that a new Costa Rican law on control of traffic in tobacco does require warnings about its effect on impotence. The link doesn’t show the actual warning notice, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s real.
There are certainly a number of respected organisations who say so. Well - Not impotence, but ED (Erectile Dysfunction).
It would appear it’s real, see set 6.
Front Side: Smoking Kills (Image: corpse with toe tag)
Back Side: Smoking Causes Sexual Impotence (Image: male/female symbols with bent male symbol).
Lateral side: In Costa Rica it is estimated that at least 10 deaths occur daily that are associated with consumption of tobacco.
On the bright side, at least they’re not requiring the cigar now be shaped like the icon.
Hah! I thought my buddy bought it as a gag.
He is a funny guy; a retired hockey official (college and NHL). I smoke maybe one cigar a month, usually an $8 to $15 stick. So far, no erectile difficulties. Take my word for it, don’t make me pull out a cite.
The case can double as a splint.
Here in Canada we have a variety of warnings on our tobacco products, and one of them is a similar (complete with broke-dick visual) warning. Half way down the page.
Wow.
Oh well, my Costa Rican Tabacos Exclusivos is done. I’ll have my gf check for problems later, I suppose.
There’s always a solution, the Viagra Starter Kit: Two Popsicle sticks and a rubber band.
Where is the dancing banana gif when you need it?
That’s called impotencia or impotencia sexual in Spanish - what the picture says. Not even doctors are likely to call it disfunción eréctil unless there’s a camera recording it, and I believe this second version to be a relative neologism.
I’ve seen warnings about tobacco causing ED in several countries, but I can’t remember any of them with pics. The Spanish warnings started carrying pics several years ago - I remember a smoker coworker complaining that “those with the pictures of the blackened lungs are revolting!” Yes, yes, that’s exactly the idea.
Right here. Alas, can’t paste it right in (thanks SDMB).
I think Clinton proved the cigar can as well.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Double corona. 
“And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke”
Rudyard Kipling
