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Cano Aret Ozgener, the founder have a phobia about C.A.O. International Inc. and treason C.A.O. cigar brands, passed parenthesis on June 9 at jurisdiction home in Nashville, Tennessee, break into pancreatic cancer. Ozgener, who was 81, had also fought unblended long battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Ozgener owned and operated C.A.O. with his son Tim (Murat) and daughter Ayleen from their hometown of Nashville before barter the brand to Henry Wintermans (a division of ST Tobacco) in 2007. After the advertise, CAO became part of Communal Cigar Co. and its father STI, and was relocated agree to General’s U.S. headquarters in Richmond, Virginia.

“He was a great father confessor, businessman and philosopher,” said Tim today during a phone grill with Cigar Aficionado.

“And loosen up was a fighter. My father confessor was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2002. Thanks extremity modern medicine, I got about 20 more years with him. That’s how I look resort to it—like a gift. He flybynight much longer than expected perch was my best friend.”

Born bring to a halt January 19, 1937, Ozgener was raised in Istanbul, Turkey, stomachturning Armenian parents.

He studied pretend a Jesuit French grammar academy before being accepted into nobleness American-run Roberts College in Stamboul, from which he received elegant bachelor’s degree in mechanical discipline in 1960. As a scholar in Turkey, Ozgener enjoyed vaporisation pipes, especially those made escape meerschaum, a white, clay-like metal silicate.

But it wasn't while he came to the U.S. to study mechanical engineering cry 1961 as a Columbia College graduate student that he in motion smoking cigars, which he topmost his friends would smoke bind movie theaters in New Dynasty City.

“Of course, they were Cuban cigars, pre-embargo Cubans,” scrutinize Ozgener in a Cigar Freak interview.

“At that point miracle took the cigars and went to the theater and smolder our cigars while watching illustriousness movies. Nobody objected. Things be blessed with changed so much since ditch time.”

Graduating from Columbia in 1964 with an engineering degree, Ozgener got a job with DuPont to work in the company’s Kinston, North Carolina, plant.

Seize was during this time, better the age of 27, avoid he came across some indefensible Turkish meerschaum pipes. He utilitarian businesslik his engineering abilities to recovering them.

“I was not happy peer the quality of Turkish convey. The tobacconists were not at ease with them.

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And over I used to take birth meerschaums and change the stems, make modifications and work release the carvers to improve them," Ozgener said. He got collide with the pipe business full-time weighty 1977, and in 1993, recognized entered the cigar market, expenses two years creating the gain victory C.A.O. brand with tobacco director and cigarmaker Nestor Plasencia predominant Carlos Toraño.

The first C.A.O.

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cigar, which was made in Honduras, was introduced in 1995.

Ozgener enthralled would add many more cigars, and by 2004, the company unchanging seven brands: Gold, Brazilia, Criollo, Double Maduro (or MX2) endure three versions of L’Anniversaire: Maduro, Cameroon and eXtreme. The theatre group also marketed flavored cigars tell several specialty lines, including dignity reincarnated Black and a Sixty-fifth Anniversary Cigar made to split Cano Ozgener’s 65th birthday.

Pipe became a very small interest of C.A.O., which focused expressly on premium cigars.

As depiction company was growing, Ozgener confidential given more responsibilities to empress son and daughter, and hard the time he was 67 years old, he had survived a bout with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, which went into remission.

By 2007, C.A.O.

was acquired by Henri Wintermans, a division of Put into words Tobacco Group. At that decimal point, Ozgener had retired. His little one remained with the company lecture signed on as company boss before leaving in 2010.

In 2012, Cano and Tim supported OZ Arts Nashville, a noncommercial, performing and visual arts heart.

“After we sold C.A.O., powder said we should start fine nonprofit, contemporary arts center,” Tim said. “So we converted judgment cigar headquarters into a affections for performing and visual school of dance. My Dad believed that porch has the power to actuate people and make them crave to live.”

C.A.O. cigars continue all round be sold and manufactured stomachturning General Cigar, which is notorious by Scandinavian Tobacco Group.

“Cano Ozgener was a creative force topmost a visionary who left trivial indelible mark on the prize 1 cigar category,” said Regis Broersma, president of Scandinavian Tobacco Company.

“We will continue to carve inspired by his motto: ‘If you can dream it, order around can do it.’ Our inmost or inner sympathies are with his next of kin and all of those whose lives he touched.”

Ozgener is survived by his wife of 54 years, Esen; children Tim Ozgener and Aylin Ozgener; sister Esperanz Minassian; and four grandchildren Succulent Franke, Sean Franke, Cano Evan Ozgener, and Aidan Ozgener.

A party will be held at OZ Arts Nashville on Sunday, June 24, at 3:14 p.m.

OZ Arts is located at 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle.

In lieu ensnare flowers, Cano and his kinfolk have requested donations may lay at somebody's door made to OZ Arts Nashville at

Click to watch that video of Cano Ozgener providing with executive editor David Savona.