I have never heard of this. I'm still trying to figure out how you would use pectin to "glue" the cigar back together. The wrapper is a single leaf, and cigars are tightly wrapped. It would seem to me that all the pectin in the world wouldn't repair the split. Not only would you have to add something non-tobacco-y to your cigar, then you would have to have a way to apply pressure to keep the split sealed. Because 80% or so of the flavor of the cigar comes from the wrapper, using a cheapie wrapper kind of defeats the purpose of saving the cigar in the first place.

If it were my sticks, and I REALLY (really really really really) wanted not to toss it, I would use a cutter to cut off the split part of the cigar (say a few cm's below the base of the split), then smoke as normal. Being that they are 4X32's, though, that doesn't give you much cigar left.

I would toss the split cigar. Are they both split? To me, it seems like a lot of work for a little satisfaction.