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Their work doesn't go up in smoke 

For cigar aficionados passing through a Union Township smoke shop, it may be about getting a good stogie. For the owners, it's about something greater.

Richard Penk and Dennis Panchyshyn, of the Smoker's Delight Cigar Shop on Stuyvesant Avenue, have raised more than $10,000 in the last three years through online auctions and charity events for those in need in the Dominican Republic.

Working with Fuente & Newman Premium Cigars Limited Inc., Smoker's Delight has helped raise money to build a grammar school and water purification systems in impoverished areas of the Dominican Republic -- a country known for its fine cigars.

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