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16 women take off to Central America for a smoking adventure
Jump to full article: GM Today (Greater Milwaukee), 2007-03-18
Author: AMY SIEWERT
Intro: The first words out of her mouth were: "Call Mary Lynn at Lake Country Cigars right away. She has a great opportunity for you!" My curiosity set in and I dialed her number.
Three months later I was on an airplane heading to Danli, Honduras, with 15 other women, mostly from the Lake Country area. I was officially a member of Cigar Babes, a group of women cigar smokers which Mary Lynn Kane Smith, owner of Lake Country Cigars in Delafield, had formed eight years ago.
It was the first time Rocky Patel of Rocky Patel Premium Cigars hosted an all-women cigar smoking group at his home in Danli.
It was also a first for Smith. "Traveling with a group of women is one thing, but traveling with a group of cigar smoking women is another. Many of the women went on this trip not knowing anything about cigars and returned with a passion for it," Smith says.
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