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by CigarCraig | December 12, 2015 · 7:12 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2015 Day 2: Selected Tobacco

Day two features some very special cigars courtesy of David Garofalo and the fine folks at 2 Guys Smokeshop, United Cigar Retailers and Selected Tobacco. It’s Saturday, so don’t forget to tune in to The Cigar Authority show at Noon Eastern Time, maybe the boys there give us a little shout-out? Anyway, today’s present is a 3 cigar sampler consisting of an Atabey, a Byron and a Bandolero cigar in re-usable humitubes, and a super cool Atabey porcelain ashtray. Retail value before taxes is $200. I’ve had the good fortune to have smoked each of these cigars and they are of exceptional quality, all made in Costa Rica under the watchful eye and ridiculously high standards of Nelson Alphonso. These are special occasion cigars that are a real treat!

We are off to a fine start! I need to get in the swing of getting up early and writing a little something and choosing a winner, but that’s my problem! It’ll get easier right up until it’s time to wrap the whole thing up! I hope everyone enjoyed day one, there’s plenty more to come! The lucky recipient of the Duality cigars from Best Cigar Prices is David Nichols! Please send me a message with your address so I can send these goodies out to you! The Cabinet is jam-packed and I need to make room! Thanks again to Jason and everyone at Best Cigar Prices, and keep in mind you can get 10% of and $.99 shipping every day with the discount code CRAIG1099.

Now is the Time to Contact

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan & Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Since the Tobacco Control Act took effect, cigar patrons, retail tobacconists and manufacturers from across the premium cigar industry have been fighting in Washington, D.C. to preserve the simple enjoyment of a premium cigar – to protect that enjoyment from a threatening bureaucracy at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

At this very moment, Congress is debating the federal budget, and regulations that can be addressed to prevent massive loss of jobs and the destruction of the cigar industry is a part of that debate.

The House of Representatives and the Senate needs to hear from you! Now is the time to add your voice to the fight to preserve premium cigars.

Please contact today, the Office of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

and tell them Premium Cigars Must Be Exempt From FDA Regulation!

Please note, the lines may be busy, and voice mail box may be full, but please continue to reach out until your voice is heard!

If the FDA has their way, where will be no more giveaways like this! Take a few minutes and make the calls!

You know what to do now, leave a comment here, check back tomorrow to see if you won!

RULES

All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on the post of the day, if you can, try to post what you know or how you feel about today’s present, the folks donating the gift should get some feedback for their troubles! It’s not a condition to win, but it’s nice to have something to read. We did this last year and it benefits everyone. Once you’ve won, you’re out, let everyone else have a chance. Must be over 18 to win. Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word!

Until tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 11, 2015 · 6:08 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2015 Day 1: Best Cigar Prices Duality

Welcome to the 2015 Cigar Craig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways! I’ve, once again, assembled an all-star cast of great giveaways for the next 12 days, so strap in and get ready for the ride! I’ll be posting a new present every morning and announcing the previous day’s winner, so check back often. It will benefit you to subscribe to the e-mail list, Facebook page, Twitter or Google+ so you make sure not to miss a day. People put up with my crap all year for this! We’re going to get things started with some cigars from Best Cigar Prices, Duality cigars. These are made at Tabacalera Palma, the same Dominican factory that make Boutique Blends Aging Room, Señorial, and a bunch of other terrific cigars. These are a “dos capas” style, made with a Mexican San Andrés wrapper and finished with Ecuador Connecticut at the head. There is a Box of 15 Duality Robustos, and a box of 50 Duality Cigarillos. Don’t forget that you can get 10% of and $.99 shipping every day at Best Cigar Prices with the discount code CRAIG1099.

I actually got confused and wasn’t sure which way this picture was supposed to go! There you have it, the start of this year’s celebration of cigars! Thanks to Jason and the folks at Best Cigar Prices for getting us started off right!

You know what to do now, leave a comment here, check back tomorrow to see if you won!

RULES

Until tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | November 27, 2015 · 9:12 am

Announcement: CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2015

It looks like for the fifth year in a row we will be having the CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways! Slots are already filling up, items are already arriving in my mailbox and I’m already starting to stress out about it. Get ready to check in daily and enter to win starting on December 11, with the expectation that we wrap it up a few days before Christmas. Any manufacturers out there who want to get in and I haven’t heard from already, let me know as son as possible please! So get ready to leave comments, the manufacturers like to hear some feedback on their products, and they are going out of their way to do this, so let’s try to make it worth their while!

I hope everyone has had a good week, I smoked a few pretty tasty cigars over the last few days, and hope you did too. Look for recaps on Sunday. Until then,

CiagrCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 26, 2014 · 8:37 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2014: Wrap Up!

Well folks, it’s finally over! It was a great couple weeks worth of great cigar giveaways! We had a never before seen 14 days! For that we have a bunch of folks to thank. Please let all these folks know that we appreciate their generosity. Nobody HAS to give away their cigars! We certainly appreciate the opportunity to make a bunch of folks happy and maybe turn people on to some new cigars and brands. Thanks to the following sponsors:

Gurkha
Drew Estate
Smoke Inn
Joya de Nicaragua
Arandoza (three times!)
Tortuga
United Cigar Retailers
General Cigars (CAO, Foundry and Cohiba)
Nomad Cigars
Miami Cigar and Company

The Flor de la Reine was the only cigar in the whole 14 days that I had never smoked, but Barry at The Cigar Authority (which is associated with United Cigar Retailers) gives it the thumbs up, so I didn’t have any reservations about including it. The rest I had smoked in maybe a different size or shape, but I’ve sampled the brand and they are all cigars I really like. There were a total of 274 cigars, three hats, two ashtrays, two t-shirts, two backpacks, a knife, a metal poster, a lighter and a cutter. Shipping costs are yet to be calculated, but I should loo for an official shipping sponsor for next year! Also, there are a couple of people who I missed seeing this year. Please join me in remembering George Satterfield and Dawn Christopher, who’s untimely departure from this plane of existence left huge voids in their families lives. I never met them, but they were frequent visitors to the site, and the 12SDoCG event. I missed seeing their comments, and their families have my sincere condolences. If it means anything, I dedicate this year’s contests to their memory. On a positive note, the next contest will be on New Years Eve, and I’m wiping the slate clean, everyone is eligible to enter this one, and it will be some good stuff!

Winners!

You probably want to know who won the crazy Day 14 prize from Miami Cigar and Company, right? The lucky recipient of the box of Nestor Miranda Collection Habano 46×6, T-shirt, ashtray and back pack is comment number 110, as selected by the random number generator at Random.org. I adjusted for a post from a prior winner and arrived at Joe K as the winner! Joe, send me your address so I can get this to you! I actually met Joe at an event a few months ago, so I might be able to save some shipping money and meet him for a smoke someplace!

Finally, the winner of the Arandoza White Labels back on day 7 never sent me his address, and I tried e-mailing twice and both e-mails came back as undeliverable So I picked another name from Day 7’s comments! Smokin_Dave, please send your address! (I’ll e-mail and hope you gave the right address). It’s probably best if you enter a contest to check to see if you won (although I’m guilty of forgetting that myself!), but at least leave the right e-mail address! I’m not selling the addresses to spammers or anything, I just would like to be able to contact you to send you cigars!

That’s all for now! I hope you all enjoyed the last few weeks! Thank you for participating, I wish I could send each of you a box of great cigars, but I can’t so you’ll just have to keep taking your chances on these contests! 🙂

Until the next time,

CigarCriag

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by CigarCraig | December 24, 2014 · 7:00 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2014 Day 14!: Miami Cigar and Co

Since it’s Christmas Eve, and the last day of Hanukkah let’s push it on another day! I know what you’re thinking: 13 days was enough already…but a Day 14? You’re crazy! I think next year if I do this it might have to be CigarCraig’s Fortnight of Festivities or something. Believe me, I wanted to scale it back to CigarCraig’s Eight Crazy Nights or something like that. And no, I’m not going to do CigarCraig’s 25 Days of Cigar ADVENTures, or anything like that! So, yes, it’s Day 14, unprecedented and difficult to fathom. Day 13’s lucky winner of the Cohiba Nicaragua N60 is Matthew Denico. Please send me your address so I can send this beautiful box your way!

Nestor Miranda/Miami Cigar and Co.

Photo courtesy of Halfwheel.com

It’s Day 14 (of 12….never was very good at math!) and we have some very special goodies from our friends at Miami Cigar and Company. In today’s very special Christmas Eve present we have some neat stuff from the Nestor Miranda line of cigars. There is a Nestor Miranda T-Shirt (XL), a very cool Nestor Miranda ashtray, and a box of the Nestor Miranda Collection Habano in the 46×6 size (box of 20). You can put all of that in a nifty Nestor Miranda “One Life” backpack! The cigars are spectacular, and the SWAG is top notch! Thank you to Jason Wood at Miami Cigar and Co. and especially Gabriel Piñeres of Creativas Group for making Day 14 possible! I will not be posting the winner tomorrow, so you will have an extra day to enter!

Rules

All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on that day’s post and if you like, in one sentence tell us what comes to mind when you think of Nestor Miranda Cigars. It’s not a condition to win, but I’d like for the folks who make this all possible to come away with some consumer feedback. Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word!