Hey guys! Poking my nose in from the pipe side. Sure smells great over here! lol Anyway, I had a few questions to ask of the more seasoned cigar smokers.

1. How important is it to keep your cigars in a humidor?

2. Can you rehydrate dried up cigars?

3. How do you prevent "runners"? Where one side of the cigar burns faster than the other?

4. Lacking a real humidor I've been keeping my cigars in a cigar box with a "water bag" (one of those bags with those gel things you let soak in water). I keep the whole thing inside a rather large Ammo can I picked up while deployed. This serves as my "travel case" as well since it pretty near indestructible. I keep a few pipes, some pipe tobacco, and a few other smoking tools in there as well. My question is this...how difficult would it be to convert this ammo can into an actual humidor? And is it ok to keep the pipe tobacco stored in there with the cigars?

5. Any of you guys/ladies in western New York? I'm pretty central to Buffal, Olean, and Geneseo.