Hey opel,
That damage shouldn't be too hard to patch up.
Go to wal-mart or target, get a pump spray mister bottle from the cosmetics department and in the canning isle or spice isle, get a box of powdered pectin or a pouch of the liquid pectin. Your call on which one, I prefer the powder, that way I can mix a heavy paste and use my finger tips to apply, but some people prefer the liquid and an inexpensive watercolor art brush. Mix a small amount of the pectin with a much smaller amount of hot water to form a paste. Mist the cigars and any big scraps from the bag down a few times to get them pliable and keep them wrapped up in a lightly moistened dinner napkin or something like that. Then just start patch quilting it, one spot at a time. Wipe a tiny bit of pectin down, tack a piece of capa leaf down. Keep everything moist so you don't create any more confetti. If you have to, sacrifice one cigar to repair the other two, wet the cap down, carefully remove it, get the capa leaf really moist and unroll it. If you don't need that much capa leaf, just make sure the cigar is moist and use a sharp cutter to lop an inch or so off the end and use that strip to patch other cigars. Use scissors or a metal pizza cutting wheel to slice up the size pieces you need. Carefully peel back the edges where you have some splits and slide a little pectin under there and press the leaf back down.
It won't be perfect, but so long as you don't apply the pectin like it was cake frosting, it won't really affect the taste.
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