Cigar Color
stephen_hannibal
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Almost any plastic will age poorly, and clear plastics will change color, but that is due mostly to the sun and heat, neither of which should be a problem in the humi. Oils and age are both a factor, but the sun will speed both of those up, ruining the cigar and the cello.
I guess I mispoke/typed
The cello does not steal any oils from the cigar. The oils in the cigar will 'leak' over time. This is a fact of aging. Those oils will deposit on the cello, and can actually be cleaned off of the cello, if someone was anal enought to do it, heheheh. The well aged cigar will look 'oilier' and may even have bloom, which I think is dried oils (looks like white powder, but unlike mould it can be wiped off the cigar). This act of leaking oil will stain the cello from the inside, but this will not harm the cigar at all, as the oils will have leaked anyway.
The sun and heat will cause yellowing, but also drying and make the cello very brittle
Since the outside leaf of a cigar is far less porous than a paper lined cigarette, for example, it can take years for these tobacco oils to leak. Not something you would observe in just a few months.