Daniel Marshall Awarded Lifetime Achievement in London

Boisdale of Canary Wharf hosted the seventh annual star-studded Cigar Smoker of The Year Awards dinner. The dinner celebrates the world’s finest cig­ars, cigar makers, journalists, cigar lounges and icons. During this year’s Cigar Smoker of The Year Awards dinner, Daniel Marshall received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Previous winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award include: Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons; leg­endary Hol­ly­wood actor and direc­tor, Burt Reynolds; British Conservative member of the House of Lords and once a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during World War II, Baroness Trumpington; Edward Sahakian of Davidoff London; and cel­e­brat­ed British broad­cast­er and jour­nal­ist, Andrew Neil. Historical win­ners of the Cigar Smoker of the Year Award, nom­i­nees and guests also includ­e Simon Le Bon, Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger, Jonathan Ross, Kelsey Grammer, Tamar Has­san, Char­lie Sheen, James Cos­mo and Chris Noth.
London holds a special place in Marshall’s heart as he reflected upon his start in the cigar industry during his acceptance speech. “Thirty-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‘s approval of quality and trust for the humidors I was making in California.”

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