Cigar Aficionado
NFL Throws a Smokin’ Party for Pro Bowl
After dinner, Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Joe Thomas, selected for his fourth Pro Bowl in his first four years in the NFL, enjoyed a corona made with Hawaiian tobacco. “It’s really good,” Thomas said, as he talked to Les Drent, founder of Kauai Cigars. “That was my favorite.”
Robb Report September 2008
This island business produces cigars that are comparable to the ones made by the top brands of Central America and the Caribbean, and it does so by using a blend of filler tobacco that includes leaves grown on its farm on Kauai, a mountainous island with nutrient-rich volcanic soil and ample rain.