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CAO

U.S.A. · est. 1968 · General Cigar Co.

Cano A. Ozgener was a Turkish-born chemical engineer in Nashville who started CAO in 1968 making meerschaum pipes, moved into humidors, and only got into cigars in the 1990s — where the flavoured and Brazilian-wrapper blends found an audience the old houses had ignored. The family sold to Scandinavian Tobacco Group, and CAO is now a General Cigar brand. Cano's children later founded Ozgener Family Cigars.