Temperature damage to cigar?

Amadameus

Greetings everyone, I'm Amadameus - new to cigars, as can clearly be seen.

I usually allow the well-stocked tobacconist down my street keep everything in their walk-in humidor (it also smells delicious, and any excuse to go step in there is good enough for me) and pull a cigar or two as I need.

Most of the cigars in their humidor are also cellophane-wrapped, which helps to keep them from drying as they wait in my *** pocket during the trip to my location of choice. However, on some rare occasions my plans change, and I simply set the (still wrapped in cellophane) cigar on the dash of my car to wait until I have time to smoke it.

My question is, it gets quite cold up here in Wisconsin. So does my car, so do those cigars. Since they're wrapped in plastic I can't see them being damaged as far as humidity, but can cold temperatures damage a cigar? I've noticed they cut much worse.

Best regards to all and happy smoking!

kaspera79

You may want to invest in a watertight container like one called Pelican.. I recieved one here from a member Ron rdnstn a while ago, and I use it everyday.. Either that or a travel humidor.. This is a better way to protect your investments. And sometime I will pre-cut my cigars in the house in the winter to avoid a " cold cut" and wrapper damage. I know what you mean since I live in the Chicago area.

Krieg

A travel humidor is a great investment. I bought a little 5 cigar travel humi for my business trip to Denver. Worked like a charm and kept all my smokes fresh.

gmill880

kuzi16

kaspera79

Hey kuzi, that link shows up... Product not available.

j0z3r

Well these guys have addressed the question pretty well, the only thing I have to add is that I cannot believe that the forum censors the B R E A S T word from a post. Last time I checked, this wasn't a swear word or even a semi-dirty word.

kuzi16

kaspera79

Whatever joe, I don't know if that is a new addition to the words that get the stars, or if it was just never used before. I guess we must place our cigars in our shirt pocket form now on.