The 16th annual No Joke Smoke 2025 dinner was held on 3/29/25 and hosted by Kalani Matsuura from Mokuleia Cigar Company. The theme this year was Ashy to Classy, even cigar enthusiasts can occasionally be dapper.
Helping us celebrate the dinner was Ian Reith, the owner of Dapper Cigars. NJS felt extremely special as this was Ian’s first time in Hawaii. Ian generously donated Dapper branded ashtrays, t-shirts, hats, stickers and various swag for our guests to win.
Featured Dapper Cigars:
- Siempre Sun Grown
- Siempre Rosado
- Desvalido
- Desvalido Disla
- La Madrina
- La Madrina Shade
- El Borracho San Andreas
Giving Back
One of goals for No Joke is for our guest to give back to the community. Our guests went “all out” this year and donated monetarily around $400 and 2100 lbs (1 ton) of canned goods to The Hawaii Food Bank. The cigar community was very gracious and in return won fantastic prizes. The grand prizes were 4 Siglo humidors worth over $1000 each from Siglo Accessories located in Hong Kong.
Supporters
No Joke Smoke was made possible with the support from:
- Bernie Leong of Havana Club Honolulu
- David Suzuki of Urbane Cigars
- Keane Tanaka of Aloha Tobacco
- Pearl at Kalauao the event site
- Rayna and Mo Morris of Just Blessed Photography for taking da pics
- Don Baduria for the sound system
- Desiree Razon and Leia Tsubota for working hard at the check-in table
- Chris and Janny Weber for helping with Foodbank collection
- Gunther Weamire for helping set up and to all the friends who helped break down after the event.
- A big mahalo to all my guests who attended and making this a classy dinner.
Ian was able to experience the aloha spirit and made a ton of new friends. All who attended enjoyed spending time together and classing up the joint. The dinner was festive with amazing cigars, dinner, beverages and prizes.
Now it’s time to plan next year’s event. – Kalani Matsuura, Owner, Mokuleia Cigar Company
