Cigars Daily founder Tim Swanson has announced the release of Milestone, a limited-edition cigar created to commemorate his 10-year journey in the premium cigar industry as a cigar maker, content creator, lounge manager, and retail owner.
The project marks a decade since Swanson entered the cigar business—initially seeking part-time work while serving as a pastor—before transitioning fully into the industry and eventually co-founding Cigars Daily alongside his father-in-law, Jim Campbell. What began as a side pursuit evolved into a full-time vocation, and for the past eight years Cigars Daily has grown into a nationally recognized online cigar retailer and content platform known for creating “the best damn cigar content online.”
While Swanson has been an aficionado for more than two decades and an amateur cigar roller, he describes the past ten years in the industry as transformative.
Cigars Daily founder Tim Swanson is releasing Milestone, a limited-edition 10th anniversary cigar. Here are the key details:
The Cigar
- Vitola: 6 x 52 Toro (Swanson’s preferred vitola)
- Wrapper: Broadleaf Natural Rosada
- Binder: Ecuador Sumatra
- Filler: Nicaraguan, Dominican, and Honduran tobaccos
- Strength: Medium-plus
- Flavor Profile: Chocolate, cinnamon, baking spices, mild spice, and a brilliant natural sweetness
- MSRP: $16.00/cigar | $279.78/box (with a commemorative Daily Low Price discount to be announced)
- Release Date: Monday, March 2, 2026
- Availability: Exclusively at CigarsDaily.com
The blend was designed to deliver richness and refinement while maintaining structural balance, reflecting both the maturity of the project and the collaborative experience behind it.
Smokers can expect a medium-plus strength experience with a wildly complex flavor profile — vivid notes of chocolate, cinnamon, baking spices, mild spice, and a brilliant natural sweetness.
“Over the last 22 years, I’ve loved smoking and rolling cigars. I’ve loved everything about the leaf.
But over the last 10, I’ve fallen in love with this industry — a place driven by passion, grit, and powerful relationships. Milestone is about remembering one thing: it’s about the journey, not the destination. It’s been 10 unforgettable years. But even now, I’m looking toward that 30-year sunset. I’m smoking the Milestone while looking forward to continuing to make the best damn cigar content online and running America’s neighborhood cigar shop online.
I’m exceedingly grateful to every member of the Cigars Daily Nation — without whom this journey would never have happened — and I’m excited to continue working with our cigar-making partners to create content and cigars that make the cigar lifestyle more enjoyable for everyone who follows Cigars Daily.”
Tim Swanson, Founder of Cigars Daily.
To mark the occasion, Swanson partnered with West Tampa Tobacco Company founder Rick Rodriguez to create a blend that reflects both depth and balance. Milestone is a single-run limited edition produced in a 6 x 52 Toro — Swanson’s preferred vitola — and carries an MSRP of $16.00 per cigar; boxes carry an MSRP of $279.78, with a commemorative Daily Low Price discount to be announced.
Milestone will be available exclusively in a specially curated 20-count box format available at CigarsDaily.com. The box is designed as a retrospective of Swanson’s most meaningful projects and collaborations over the past decade.
Each cigar in the box was hand-selected to represent a key collaboration or milestone partnership from Swanson’s decade in the industry:
Each 20-count box includes:
10x Milestone 10th Anniversary Toro (6×52)
1x American Viking Cigars Dama Valada Toro (6×52)
1x American Viking Liga Zebra Barber Pole Toro (6×52)
1x American Viking Obrigado Toro (6×52)
1x American Viking Unkillable Toro (6×52)
1x American Viking Filthy Viking Toro (6×52)
1x Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust LecheBurra Cigars Daily Edition Toro (6×52)
1x Espinosa Premium Cigars Murcielago Echo-Hale Daily Edition Toro (6×54)
1x Oliva Cigar Co. La Fermentada Daily Edition Toro (6×52)
1x Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co. Earth by Oscar Daily Edition Corojo Toro (6×52)
1x Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co. Scorched Earth Daily Edition Maduro Toro (6×50)
The format reflects Swanson’s journey through collaborations, private labels, and special editions that have helped define the Cigars Daily brand over the past decade.
Milestone will be released beginning Monday, March 2, 2026, and will be available exclusively through CigarsDaily.com.
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