Robert Caldwell's charity cigar is back for another year. Give a F*ck 2026 shipped to stores on July 24, and the money it brings in pays for veterinary care that people otherwise couldn't afford.
It's a 5 x 50 robusto in paper-wrapped bundles of ten, at $12.50 a cigar. Production stopped at 600 bundles, which is 6,000 cigars. The blend is a habano-seed wrapper over a Sumatra-seed binder with Dominican and Nicaraguan filler.
- $12.50 a cigar, $125 for a bundle of ten, up 50 cents from last year.
- 600 bundles this year against 500 last year, so 6,000 cigars.
- Proceeds go to free vet clinics for owners who can't cover the bill.
The name gets attention. What it pays for is the part worth reading about.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
Proceeds go to Project Unleashed, a program run by the Miami Veterinary Foundation. It puts on volunteer-led monthly clinics. Pets get treated for free when the owner can't pay.
That's narrower than it sounds, and better for it. People surrender animals they love because a bill arrives they can't cover. Free clinics keep the animal and the person together.
Caldwell said much the same around last year's release. Every pack helps fund those clinics.
"People surrender animals they love because a bill arrives they can't cover. Free clinics keep the animal and the person together."NORM FARRAR, THE CIGAR FOSSIL
One thing worth saying: Lost&Found hasn't published a dollar amount or a percentage, so "a portion of proceeds" is exactly as specific as anyone can be.
THE BLEND
The wrapper is grown from habano seed and the binder from Sumatra seed. Neither country is disclosed. That's normal for this brand.
The filler comes from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. The factory isn't named either.
Lost&Found built its whole business on that kind of thing, buying up aged tobacco and finished cigars from other people's warehouses and putting them out under its own name. Not naming a source is the model, not an oversight.
THE SIZE AND THE RUN
One size, a 5 x 50 robusto. Bundles hold ten at $12.50 each, so $125 a bundle.
The run went to 600 bundles this year, up from 500 in 2025. Price moved up 50 cents a cigar over the same stretch.
Twenty percent more cigars and a small bump in price means more money going to the clinics, assuming the split held.
THE BLC TAKE
$12.50 for a Dominican and Nicaraguan robusto is fair money before you know anything else about it. Then you find out where some of the profits go.
I'm a pet person. If buying a bundle helps fund clinics that keep animals with the people who love them, I don't need much more convincing. I'll put my money behind a company doing that, and I'd like to see more of the industry try it.
Six thousand cigars won't sit on shelves forever. It's an annual release though, so there'll be another run next year if you miss this one.
I like what Lost&Found is doing here. I like what the clinics are doing more. I'm standing behind this one.
LOST&FOUND GIVE A F*CK 2026, SPECS
Every specification on this page is as published by Lost&Found. Blind Label Cigar hasn't smoked Give a F*ck 2026 and doesn't score cigars it hasn't smoked.
