We’re taking New Years Eve and New Years Day off to ring in 2010. Naturally, we’ll be doing so with a few cigars, and we hope you do the same. We’ll return on Saturday, January 2.
If that’s too long to wait, you can follow us on our official Twitter feed, on Facebook, or you can sign up for our free email newsletter. Happy New Year!
From all of us at StogieGuys.com, we want to wish you a joyous, safe, and cigar-filled Christmas. We’re taking today and tomorrow off to spend time with our families, but we’ll be right back here on December 26 with more reviews, news, interviews, commentaries, and tips from the world of cigars.
Until then, you can follow us on our official Twitter feed, on Facebook, or you can sign up for our free email newsletter.
Today presents a perfect opportunity to kick back, relax, and enjoy a fine stogie or four. We at StogieGuys.com are taking our own advice, interrupting our daily coverage of cigar news, reviews, commentaries, and tips to do what we do best—smoke. After all, you wouldn’t want us to be hypocritical, would you?
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This month marks StogieGuys.com’s three-year anniversary. We’re celebrating this milestone by launching a new free service for our readers and giving away a whole bunch of amazing cigar prizes.
Way back in May 2006, the site—now one of the world’s most popular online cigar magazines—started when to two coworkers and friends decided to share their hobby and passion with interested cigar enthusiasts. Since then, we’ve grown from a handful of visitors to hundreds of thousands. We’ve broken news, interviewed leaders in the cigar industry, reviewed hundreds of stogies, and been fortunate enough to add other writers who are as passionate about cigars as we are.
As we approach three years of daily publishing (over 1,000 articles to date), we’re launching a new free email newsletter for our loyal readers. Think of it as the StogieGuys.com companion reader.
We’ll be using this exciting new vehicle to provide occasional email newsletters (we promise not to bombard your inbox) with exclusive content. We’ll be including aging reports, cigar rankings, tips, answering readers’ questions, and more.
And, just for signing up, we’ll be giving away cigars…lots of amazing cigars!
Over the next few months we’ve got the following prizes lined up to celebrate our third anniversary (Special thanks to all of the generous manufacturers who are making this incredible giveaway possible):
• A Savoy humidor signed by baseball legend Luis Tiant, filled with 23 El Tiante Corojo cigars (provided by El Tiante Cigars)
• A box of Mi Barrio Acere Cigars (provided by EO Brands)
• A box of CAO LX2 Lanceros (provided by CAO Cigars)
• A box of Cuban Crafters Miami Medina 1959 Cigars (provided by Cuban Crafters)
• A box of Carlos Toraño Tribute 2008 Robustos (provided by Toraño Cigars)
• A box of Cubao No. 3 Lanceros (provided by EO Brands)
• A box of Cuban Crafters Tuxedo Churchills (provided by Cuban Crafters)
• A box of EO 601 Red Toros (provided by EO Brands)
• A Toraño Exodus Seleccion Exclusiva Sampler (provided by Toraño Cigars)
• A CAO black “O” ashtray and a Lotus T3 table lighter (provided by CAO Cigars)
Starting May 15, the the third anniversary of our official launch, we’ll be giving away one prize a week for a month. After that, we’ll pick one winner each month. For a chance to win, all you have to do is sign up for our email newsletter by providing your email and first name (because we consider our readers our friends and we want to call you by your name):
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After you sign up, you’ll need to confirm your subscription before you are automatically entered to win these great prizes. (See the full contest fine print here.) Please note that we’ll never share your email with anyone else and, if for some reason you want to stop receiving emails from us, you’ll find an unsubscribe link in every email (you just won’t be eligible to win any of the great prizes).
Good luck and thanks for being part of the first three years of StogieGuys.com. We plan to make the next three years even better, but we know we can’t do that without you, our fantastic readers. So please sign up and, if there’s something you’d like to see in our upcoming newsletters, leave us a comment below.
As it is every Sunday, the StogieGuys.com Cigar Report will be featured on the Livin’ Large with Geoff Pinkus radio show on WIND 560 AM in Chicago. Today’s show runs from 5-7pm Central (6-8pm Eastern), and Patrick A is scheduled to be on about 35 minutes into the program.
Feel free to call in at 877-560-WIND to ask a question on the air. And if you’re not in the Chicago area, you can listen live online here. Check out previous Stogie Guys appearances on the Geoff Pinkus Show here.
From all of us at StogieGuys.com, we want to wish you a joyous, safe, and cigar-filled Christmas. We’re taking the next few days off to spend time with our families, but we’ll be right back here on December 26 with more reviews, news, commentaries, and tips from the world of cigars.
If you really can’t wait until Friday when we return with our post-Christmas Friday Sampler, you can always subscribe to our twitter feed to get all the latest from StogieGuys.com.
All of us at StogieGuys.com are pleased to announce that Mike Kitsen of East Lansing, Michigan, has won our “What Do Cigar Rights Mean to You?” contest. Mike will receive the Ultimate Rocky Patel Cigar Rights Sampler, which includes a dozen of Rocky’s finest cigars, three punch cutters, and Rocky’s new five-torch Diplomat table lighter—all generously furnished by the Duque Cigar Company.
While we received many outstanding contest entries, we think Mike’s comment succinctly and accurately touched on the most important aspects of cigar rights. Here’s what he had to say on November 25:
[Cigar rights mean] the ability to: (1) enjoy a cigar in an establishment that allows cigar smoking, without the interference of government; (2) buy a cigar without being hit with an industry and consumer crippling tax; and (3) smoke in my home or on my property without the fear of big brother’s watchful eye or prying neighbors who are irrationally fearful that traces of smoke may encroach upon their property and give them cancer. And for businesses, it means the ability to make an honest living, selling a legal product, and having the right to permit people to smoke or not (so long as the choice is that of the owner and not the government).
Upon learning of his triumph in the contest, Mike wrote to us: “Out of so many great ‘Cigar Rights’ entries, I am glad to hear I won because cigar rights is a very meaningful topic to me, especially in today’s ever increasing anti-smoking world. It’s fitting that such a meaningful topic comes with a phenomenal gift from StogieGuys.com and the Duque Cigar Company. Thank you for such an on-point topic, and keep up the fantastic work, guys.”
Picking a winner from the many outstanding entries was no easy task. But we hope you will join us in congratulating Mike for his well-deserved victory.
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