Quote Originally Posted by Shelby07 View Post
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Once again, I said nothing about temperature, why, because everyone knows (or at least Cabaiguan does) that cigars should never be above 70º*Fahrenheit if you really want to be sure the creepy crawlies don't come out. And as you pointed out, down around 60º is even better (hence the growth in popularity of the wine-fridge-o-dor).

Also, I never said store the cigars you want to smoke at a high RH, I said the ones you want to store for many years at a time needed the higher RH, so here is the only point we differ on. The fact is, when you go to Cigar storage facilities (esp. those storing specially aged cigars that are to come out many years later), they store the cigars at a higher RH. Why, because the more moisture outside the cigar means less moisture wants to escape from the cigar (no matter the location of where it can escape, head, foot, body), which means the oils stay put. Now, as you said, for smokes you want to smoke, you have to dry box them (or at least let them sit at a lower RH in your regular humi) if they've been kept at a higher RH. I keep my cooler which only houses smokes and short term aging at 60%, then I never have to do this.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled info session...