Quote Originally Posted by QuietC
i see, my bad...always thought thats what they were used for
my bad
Oh no, not at all, it's just a method for storing your cigar (or usually because you want to extinguish it fairly quickly). The manufacturer or retailer may use as a selling point that it will prevent the "bad taste" on relight and again, I don't agree with that statement.

I've used one of these and the supposed strong points are that it prevents your cigar from drying out because it's stored in a sealed container AND when you store it in the sealed container, it extinguishes itself immediately.

Now in my case, I don't worry about the cigar "drying out" over the course of an hour or two but if I lived in Arizona or Utah it might be a different story and one of these devices would be the way to go.

My experience has been that I don't sense a "bad taste" when I relight, I experience a different taste when I relight on the first draw or two but after that, it's the same as smoking the cigar from when it was initially lit. My original statement was that in my experience, it makes no difference if a cigar savor was used to extinguish and store the cigar versus if it were left in an ashtray to extinguish itself.