{"id":32986,"date":"2019-12-17T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=32986"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:32:50","slug":"daniel-marshall-takes-home-lifetime-achievement-award-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/daniel-marshall-takes-home-lifetime-achievement-award-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Marshall Takes Home Lifetime Achievement Award in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boisdale of Canary Wharf hosted the seventh annual star-studded Cigar Smoker of The Year Awards Dinner celebrating the world’s finest cig\u00adars, pro\u00adduc\u00aders, writ\u00aders, ter\u00adraces and icons. Thirty-seven year cigar veteran Daniel Marshall received the \u201cLifetime Achievement Award.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award include: Academy Award Winner Jeremy Irons; Leg\u00adendary Hol\u00adly\u00adwood actor and direc\u00adtor, Burt Reynolds; British Conservative member of the House of Lords and once a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, Baroness Trumpington;\u00a0Edward Sahakian of\u00a0Davidoff London, and cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00aded British broad\u00adcast\u00ader and jour\u00adnal\u00adist, Andrew Neil. Historical win\u00adners of the Cigar Smoker of the Year Award, nom\u00adi\u00adnees and guests also includ\u00ade Simon Le B\u00f6n, Arnold Schwarzeneg\u00adger, Jonathan Ross, Kelsey Gram\u00admer, Tamar Has\u00adsan, Char\u00adlie Sheen, James Cos\u00admo, and Chris Noth.
\nLondon holds a special place in Marshall\u2019s heart as he reflected upon his beginnings during his acceptance speech. \u201cThirty-eight years ago, a 19-year-old California surfer landed in this amazing beautiful city of London with a dream and a challenge. The dream was to obtain Alfred Dunhill of London\u2018s approval of quality and trust for the humidors I was making in California.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall told two stories from his 37-year journey on the cigar trail. At age 12, He was in an oratorical contest and up against the most popular boy in school at the time – 14 year old actor Sean Penn. Marshall would go on to win the contest. \u201cWith Sean\u2019s massive popularity and with me being an overweight, insecure, least popular kid at school, I was terrified to go onto the playground and possibly meet him or any of his friends for fear of being beat up. I very happy that this never occurred!\u201d Marshall continued, \u201cTwo years ago I met Sean at President Macron\u2019s environmental summit and told him this story. He remembered the contest and laughed. Hardly the reaction I was so scared of. I learned an important life lesson on this day that most of our fears never come to pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

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His acceptance speech included an example of the \u201cpower of the cigar\u201d and whom one can meet thru a cigar. \u201cOne of my most memorable moments was when Mr. Marlon Brando called me to build two large humidors for him. He told me when he visits his island off the coast of Tahiti, all his scripts get moldy and destroyed by the humidity and he wanted to use our humidors to keep the humidity out!\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall expressed his deepest admiration for all nominees and congratulations for the winners including \u201cCigar Smoker of the Year\u201d. This top award recognizes a high-profile individual that possesses a passion for the pure enjoyment of the cigar. This year\u2019s honor went to actor, filmmaker and martial artist Dolph Lundgren best known for his roles in Rocky IV, The Expendables, The Punisher, and Universal Soldier.<\/p>\n

In concluding his speech, Marshall left the esteemed audience with a final thought, \u201cI truly believe it\u2019s all about dreams. Dreams cost nothing. The hard part is keeping them going and never giving up. As Sir Winston Churchill said so famously, \u2018No matter the challenge, we must never, never, never give up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n