women and their cigars

The Cigar PEG dedicates this page as a

tribute to Women and their Cigars

Mary Key, Ph.D., Cigar PEG 2010, Orlando,
FL

Oliver & Gabbi visiting from Germany,
Cigar PEG 2010, Orlando, FL

Cigar PEG 2010, Orlando, FL

Stephanie Vance, 2009
Cigar PEG Party

Lauren Hutton

Demi Moore

Jennifer Breton

Heidi Klum

Vanessa Williams

Kristy Gallacher

Jennifer Lopez

Dita Von Teese

Geri Halliwell

Cigar Chick

http://smokinghotcigarchick.com/

VANCOUVER, BC – FEBRUARY 25: (L to R) Marie-Philip
Poulin #29 and Tessa Bonhomme #25 of Canada celebrate winning the gold
medal with a beer and a cigar following their team’s 2-0 victory during
the ice hockey women’s gold medal game between Canada and USA on day 14
of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Canada Hockey Place on February
25, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.

Rosario Dawson

Taraji P. Henderson

Brande Roderick

Linda Evangelista

Anne Archer

Claudia Schiffer

Gina Gershon

Lisa Guerrero

Ed is clearly out-gunned by Monique Palmieri,
CigCon West, Paso Robles, CA, September 2009

Janice Nark & Sharon Adcock

Cigar
PEG 2000, Washington, DC

Philippa Gamse, Michael Aun, Sharon Adcock

Cigar PEG 2002, Orlando,
FL

Traci Smith

Cigar PEG 2006, Orlando,
FL

Debra Pestrak

Cigar
PEG 2007, San Diego, CA

Mary Feeley

Cigar PEG 2000,
Washington, DC

Danielle and Jan Weiss

Cigar PEG 2006, Orlando,
FL

Mary Key, Ph.D., Cigar PEG 2006, Orlando,
FL

Stephanie Vance, Cigar PEG
2001, Dallas, TX

Mary Key, Ph.D., Cigar
PEG, 2002, Orlando, FL

Women, Power, & Cigars: http://www.vegassantiago.com/womencigar.htm

Total Giving as of July 2025: $919,000

$500,000 USD to NSA’s Foundation, since its inception in 1999, the Cigar PEG has contributed funds specifically earmarked for the Professional Speaker Benefit Fund–making the Cigar PEG the largest single contributor to the Foundation.
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$155,000 USD to Laura’s Hope, a project administered through The Hereditary Disease Foundation.

$40,000 USD to benefit John Alston, CSP, CPAE. In 2009 the Cigar PEG created an Emergency Relief Fund; the fund has collected over $35,000 and granted the monies to the Alston Family. Additionally, in 2010, the Cigar PEG gave the Alston Family a grant of $5,000.

$29,000 USD to the Cardiac Arrhythmias Research & Education (C.A.R.E.) Foundation (as of 2011). Their work supports the research and education of the Long QT Syndrome.
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$60,000 USD to Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation. Find out more.

$37,000 USD to the American Cancer Society. Find out more

$7,000 USD (through the Cigar PEG Emergency Relief Fund) to benefit Jeff Thredgold, CSP (also Cigar PEG High Roller & Eddie Award recipient) who was, in 2012, diagnosed with having Frontotemporal dementia.

$5,000 USD to the Dutch Charity, Marathon 365 Foundation, following the Cigar PEG’s first International event in Amsterdam. Find out more

$15,000 USD to The Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation (NWPF). Find out more

$3,000 USD to The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD). Find out more.

$30,400 to CurePSP, the leading nonprofit advocacy organization focused on prime of life neurodegenerative diseases, a spectrum of fatal brain disorders that often strike during a person’s most productive and rewarding years.
http://www.psp.org/

$14,400 USD to Hurricane Ian (2022) Emergency Relief Fund donated by members to benefit Annie Meehan.

Shriners Hospital for Children (https://donate.lovetotherescue.org/) $15,200

Stacy Pederson Emergency Medical Fund — $5,500

$1,000 to Prostate Cancer Research Centre
PayPal Giving Fund UK, a registered charity (No.1110538)

$1,000 to Hawai’i Community Foundation
https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/

$5,000 to Four Diamonds through PennState University

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$500 to Sharing Foundation (Caring for Cambodia’s Children)

https://sharingfoundation.org/