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Keeping the temperature and humidity in your humidor at an even keel will keep your cigars fresh and tasting great for as long as you desire to keep them. However, this requires a bit of skill and knowledge. Thankfully, keeping your humidor from overheating is a fairly easy task to achieve – the first thing to do is to make sure you have a room which is out of direct sunlight and that is well sealed off from the outside world. Also, make sure that your humidor’s placed away from any in-house heating elements such as stoves, heaters, fireplaces and...

A flame lighter is essentially the device that cigar smokers use for lighting up their cigars. There are two types of cigar lighters available for the consumers’ use. The choice that they pick depends on their preferences, bearing in mind that each one of these two have their advantages and disadvantages. These types of lighters are either soft flame lighters or torch flame lighters. Soft flame lighters have a cooler flame compared to the torch flame lighters. They produce a flame that’s soft and quite like a candle’s flame. These flame lighters usually don’t work perfectly where there are breezes. The droughts...

Many people believe all lighters are the same, or at least they all work the same. This is an enormous misconception. Lighters come in all different shapes and sizes, with varying functionalities depending on what you’re smoking. Knowing the difference will save you the awkward moment of trying to burn a large cigar outdoors with a Bic lighter, or completely torching your pipe’s bowl with a cigar lighter. Cigars fall into the higher quality category of smoking. Most are hand rolled with premium tobacco, perfectly formulated to create an incomparable smoking experience. This experience always begins with lighting the cigar,...

Filtered cigars consist of wrapper, binder and filler and in this particular case filter. Filters are intended to reduce the amount of smoke, tar, and fine particles inhaled during the combustion of a cigar, but have no actual proven health benefits. The standard filter used on cigars today contains 15 000 fibers per filter. According to surveys, smokers believe that filtered cigars reduce the risks of smoking and that is most likely why beginning smokers choose this type of cigars. However, they’re unaware of the possibility of loose fibers from cigars’ filters being ingested and/or inhaled into their lungs during smoking....

There are a number of different ways in which a humidor might be broken. However, the most important and frequent problem is a malfunction in the humidor’s hygrometer. Below are two different methods you can use to troubleshoot your hygrometer based on the type you’re using, either analog or digital. ANALOG HYGROMETERS: To check analog hygrometers, simply soak a hand towel and wrap it around your hygrometer. Let it sit this way for 30 minutes and then check the reading. If the hygrometer should register anything other than 100% humidity, it’ll need to be re-calibrated. As a note, it’s important...