Simon Lundh
Simon Lundh stumbled upon the cigar world while working for a non-governmental organization in Estelí, Nicaragua. As a (not very active) musician and (even less active) surveying engineer he’s now making a living writing about cigars, metal music, human rights and the construction sector.
Articles by Simon Lundh
CSWC in Belarus
24 seconds. That’s how close Andrey Leontiev was to reach that sought-after three hour time limit, when the Cigar Smoking World Championship came to Minsk.
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CSWC in Slovakia
Just like last year the Slovakian qualifier for the Cigar Smoking World Championship consisted of two rounds, the first one in Košice and the second one in Bratislava.
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CSWC in Latvia
Latvian slow smoker Nikola Branjak is probably way too familiar with the concept “close but no cigar” by now. Last year he was in the lead when his cigar suddenly went out and he had to concede to Denis Demitch. This year he came in second again, only a minute and a half behind first time competitor
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CSWC in Finland
This year’s qualification round of the Cigar Smoking World Championship in Finland was bigger than ever.
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Loser winner of CSWC in Switzerland
CSWC in Switzerland.
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CSWC Club
Since smoking laws vary greatly from country to country it hasn’t always been easy to keep up, and that’s why they started the CSWC Club.
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Simultaneous Slow Smoking in the US
For the first time the US qualification rounds for the Cigar Smoking World Championship will be held on the same date, and on a much smaller scale. Instead of 17 local competitions like last year there will be five, all at Burn by Rocky Patel lounges around the country.
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CSWC Sweden
The Cigar Smoking World Championship organization called it the most anticipated qualification round of the season.
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CSWC Austria
After last year’s third place Daniel Friedenthaler reclaimed the title of Austrian slow smoking champion.
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Ladies only CSWC
Cigar slow smoking history was recently made at a Time Chase event at the Green Room cigar lounge in Turin, Italy. For the first time ever an event connected to the competition featured only women.
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CSWC World Record
History was made at a time chase event at M&P Wine Garden Marina Mokotów in Warsaw on May 10. After five long years the slow smoking world record was finally broken. The record holder is none other than Poland’s own Klaudia Ide.
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CSWC France
After four years the Cigar Smoking World Championships came back to France, and Strasbourg.
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