Awards

Check out our 2024 Company of the Year award. Read more

Check out our 2024 Factory of the Year Award. Read more

Check out our 2024 Accessory of the Year Award! Read more

Check out our 2024 Best Packaging Award. Read more

Here is the full 2024 Smokin Tabacco Cigar of the Year list! Read more

Here is the 2024 Smokin Tabacco Cigar of the Year list featuring spots #10 - #6. Read more

Here is the 2024 Smokin Tabacco Cigar of the Year list featuring spots #15 - #11. Read more

Here is the 2024 Smokin Tabacco Cigar of the Year list featuring spots #20 - #16. Read more

Here is the 2024 Smokin Tabacco Cigar of the Year list featuring spots #25 - #21. Read more

In one of our more...less conventional awards, this is a contest that used to belong to Cigar Coop. After William Cooper gave us his blessing, we decided to give it a go in 2023. Read more

This award, which goes to the company who we felt had the best year in the business for a handful of reasons goes to Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. Read more

If you have picked up a cigar more than once in the last twelve months...or maybe even in your life, there a serious chance you have heard of Arturo Fuente or even its third generation owner, Carlos "Carlito" Fuente Jr. Read more

Every year we give an award for Best Show Guest on the Smokin Tabacco Show. This award is based on the total views of the episodes of shows that featured guests which also usually dictates the guest's popularity. Read more

We saw a wide range of Accessories this year from budget friendly lighters and cool collectables to ultra-luxury yet somewhat unnecessary stone ashtrays. Read more

Once again it is time to reveal the Top 25 cigars of the year. 2023 was a difficult year as many cigars that were introduced earlier on seemed to carry a high level of hype. However once many of these cigars hit the market, many of them did not meet expectations and ultimately fell flat. Read more

In the final award given this year, something I wanted done sooner but with being sick for the last several days and being behind on other projects, this is finally... Read more

There were many accessories this year that were both submitted for consideration and ones we discovered on our own. This is one that we discovered on our own that later... Read more

There were many candidates, great, qualified, and popular candidates for this award. But it came down to a name that was repeatedly mentioned over and over again amongst the team.... Read more

What might come as no surprise whatsoever, Steve Saka, owner of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, is our 2022 Best Show Guest award winner. Now, I will say this was an... Read more

In 2022, one smaller company emerged as one of the largest voices in the room. It was a company we couldn’t stop talking about all year, on almost every episode... Read more