What causes this?

jadelt · July 2012

Vision · July 2012

jlmarta · July 2012

The Kid · July 2012

my first perception was that the stick/wrapper was too dry,, the wrapper became brittle and cracked,,,hard to tell from just the pic,

blurr · July 2012

I've had a few 5V series A's that had similar almost issues. I think its the wrapper being uber-paper-thin to begin with, and high ambient humidity causing the wrapper to split when you start smoking it. I can't remember the wrapper type on the 5V A but it reminds me of the Brazilian Maduro, and I have that issue fairly commonly while smoking brazilian Maduro wrappers. That baccy is super super thin, albeit delicious in my opinion.