How should I age cigars that come in five packs? Leave them in the pack or take them out? This will be my first experience with them, and I wonder if the paper will affect them over time.

put them in your humidor after you smoke the first one. the shipping bags don't do anything. chances are they are already married (assuming you bought some good cigars) if you bought some junk stuff because it was cheap, like i do, they are as good as they are going to get. now wait until you hear from some more opinions re your post. we all have different ideas.

Which type of 5 pack are you speaking of? Is it one of those nifty little wooden boxes with the glass slide top? Or simply 5 sticks in a zip lock baggie? Those boxes are not sealed too tightly, so you can age them as is. Otherwise, tightly wrap a piece of cellophane around all five cigars and re-ask your question....

Like a newbie, I ask dumb questions. This is the first time I've bought five packs so I didn't know how they'd be packaged. I was thinking they'd be like convenience store cigars, packaged in a cardboard pack with cello around it, and I was concerned about the cardboard in my humidor. From what you've said, sounds like they come in a plastic baggie. If that's the case, seems like you could leave one end open and they'd be o.k. I'd like to know how other folks handle it.

Take them out of the plastic bag and lay them in the humidor individually. Your local cigar store will be a great help to you for allot of more basic information on getting started with a humidor and whatnot.

run, dont walk.

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They don't AGE in plastic, they just get older.....I find that taking the stick out of the zip-lock bag once at home and then removing the celophane wrapper and putting them in a humidor works best.

Take care not to put flavored cigars in a humidor unless you want them all to taste the same. (You'd not put a raw sliced union next to your strawberres, would you?) For your humidor to do it's job in aging the tobacco it can't have the cigars wrapped in plastic. Personnally I prefer a wetter stick (80% plus), but that promotes mold, so I have a small humidor at high humidity that I move them to a few days in advance. This wet box was my starter box and never has more that 1 layer of sticks at a time.

Thanks folks for the advice, am anxiously awaiting my first shipment from this site. Should be here any day. Love my cigars!

Buck