Cello or no

[HTML5 Gordon]

I leave them on if they came in one. Since I have so many cigars, I usually don't around get to smoking new stock for at least a year (or more, depending on the cigar). And... I am horrible about dating my cigars, so the amount of yellowing on the cello gives me some idea of how long they've been in there.

[Deke]

I've found that cigars taste a lot better if you remove the cello before lighting.

Draw is better, too..

[Bruck]

That's crazy talk! What next? Remove band?

True confessions, a time or two I have forgotten to remove the band while smoking in the dark.

[Mister Moo]

You lost me brother!

1. If I take the cellophane off I always crack a wrapper or fray an end; and
2. if I leave it on I feel like I am strangling my cigars or impregnating them with some kind of hydrocarbon toxin (which I am not - cellophane is both permeable and pretty much non-toxic once clear of the manufacturing site).

Sometimes I take the cello off but then put it back on a more valuable or fragile vitola to increase the overall value/survivability quotient. So that's cello off-and-on; no accounting for that in the on/off polls.

Then, sometimes, I find an old Fuente-Fuente OpusX #4, upon which I ALWAYS leave the cellophane, in the Opus box without a cellophane jacket; no telling where it went or why. That's cello-on-vanished again with no category.

Then sometimes I find the '98 Upmann churchills or some creme-de-la-creme Bolivars in the humidor that were delivered without cellophane but I always wished they HAD come with cellophane.

I am one of those people who is never satisfied. I similarly worried about pipe tobacco, jarred or tinned but, now, I just smoke the stuff and forget about it.