Thanks alot for all the posts guys, I really appreciate it :o)
Well I just got myself a cuban cigar from mysmokingshop.co.uk and I’m deciding when I should smoke it. Its not easy as I can’t smoke at home, in the pubs and its constantly raining outside! LOL I might have to smoke it in the car!
dont smoke a cigar in the car. especially not a rathger earthy, heavy one like the cuba cigars usually are. the scent would never leave again. wait for a nice, not rainy, but possibly slightly gloomy autumn / early winter day and have a walk while smoking. plan something in between 1 and 2 hours, depending on how big that cigar is. but dont wait too long, unless you have a humidor at home. the cigar should be fine fore a week or so outside the humidor. unless you put it atop the heating or something, whichj will result in immediate ruin.
Jezz,now when you mention it,I too crave a cigar.And i’m a smoker. Just last night i dreamed i smoked a cigar,lol. Actually I was up till 2 in tme morning,heh,a little bit too much of gletscher priese. Well what can you do,i just love it.
I really enjoyed my pipe yesterday. With some cuban pipe tobacco wonderfull stuff.
Thanks for that post Betonente, I wasn’t keen on smoking it in the car anyway as you said I didn’t want to stink the car out, not be relaxed when smoking it or drop it on my lap whilst driving and burn my legs! (not very safe) I am going to a pub in my local town with an old friend (who happens to be a cigarette smoker) so i’ll sit with him outside and smoke it then. It should be nice :o) I am a little concerned at your comment about keeping cigars in a humidor. I have bought 3 cubans recently which I have kept in a bedside cabinet. They are stored in a clear plastic bag with a seal on the top then inside bubble-wrap in a small cardboard box. They have already been in there about 2 weeks and I am unsure when I will actually be smoking them (but it should be soonish) How long will they keep for if not stored in a humidor? Thanks
They can keep for an indeterminate amount of time that way, the problem is they probably won’t. As long as the humidity is correct the cigar will keep indefinitely excepting for damage, which you can bet on. You also want to guard against fluctuations; drying out and re-hydrating will lead to loss and off-flavor. Basically, in theory they’ll keep, but I wouldn’t keep my good ones that way for any longer than I could help it. Damn, talking about em is making me want one too. 
If you don’t have a good humidor, smoke them as soon as possible. It’s easy not to stink up your car, crack both front windows open. Don’t get too much airflow as your cigar will smoke hot. Just enough to carry the smoke out. The drivers behind you will be jealous.
They work well enough in a pouch of pipe tobacco but they never seem to keep the level of humidity high enough for cigars. The capacity is so small that you wind up forgetting to fill them sooner or later and your cigars dry out. If you don’t have a real humidor you really need to smoke whatever you buy in a few days. I find beyond 2 or 3 days they really go downhill.
Well thanks for all the advice fellas but I smoked that Cuban stogie this afternoon and very nice it was too! I was actually disappointed it didn’t last longer (it was quite small)
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I think most things in life are like that, they won’t hurt unless you abuse them. I think different tobacco products have different effects which non-smokers often forget. People like to lump cigarettes, cigars, pipes and even snuff (basically anything with tobacco in it) into the same pot and call them all ‘killers’ which is wrong. I was in work once and a colleague saw me holding a small tin of McChrystals Raspberry. She came over and said ‘whats that?’ I gave her the tin and as soon as she read the words ‘tobacco’ she practically threw the tin back at me exclaiming ‘tobacco! eww!’ as if it was poisonous to even hold the tin! LOL Yes, smoking cigarettes causes cancer and other nasty diseases. Cigars & pipes are smoked differently & not as often so the risks are lower (lower, but still there) However with snuff there are practically none of the cancer-causing risks that come with smoking. The two most notable ‘side-effects’ of snuff taking are increased heart-rate and addiction. I think those are prices worth paying for the superb experience snuff brings. The addiction part used to bother me a little but then I realised I was already 100% hooked on coffee so one more addiction wouldn’t change anything LOL I am really glad to hear i’m not the only person on this forum who was never a ‘smoker’ and yet started on snuff :o)
Yeah that’s true about coffee, beer, cigarettes and a lot of other stuff which are “normal” to people but somehow they go nuts when they think about snuff being addictive. It’s certainly not any worse than coffee and has many of the same advantages and disadvantages. I used to get headaches if I didn’t drink enough coffee.
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Don’t forget liquor, hard liquor! I can’t believe the stuff is still legal.
Funny thing snuffbox is I think of myself as being addicted to snuff. I only think of myself as being addicted to caffine when I’am waiting for my first kettle to whistle after that I’am just going for effect. Though in my opinion too bad we can’t add opium to that list.
nmmmmmmmmmmmm…opium. Its been so long since this old fart indulged. I have several hundred cubans in my humidor that are aging quite nicely. The only problem is that I don’t smoke em anymore although I still have to care for them. If anyone is interested give me a whisper. I just found out about the Humydrole disk today. I picked one up to put in my walk around snus tin. I hope this thing will work well for snus as I love my snus quitet. Ususally I put a few drops of my morning coffee in the tin everyday when I refill my tin with pouches. That works well enough I guess but the Humydrole looks like it might distriblte the moisture more evenly. Gee I bet that Humydrole would work well for herbs also. 
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PP, Those were the days!!! Tom NicotineRush.com
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carefully. The first time I tried it I vomited alot. I’ll find you a link. Just promise you’ll go easy on it at first to gauge the strength.