I agree that no additional humidification is needed, but I think the notion that pipe tobacco should be stored at lower humidity than cigar tobacco is incorrect. I'm not trying to pick on Brandon here, but I see this posted a lot. I think the reason people believe this is likely because a lot of time when people talk about pipe tobacco storage, they are talking about the moisture content of the tobacco, and when people talk about cigar storage, they are referring to the relative humidity of the air around the tobacco. I think that if we took the moisture content of a cigar and the moisture content of pipe tobacco, they would be within a couple percentage points of each other, and the pipe tobacco would probably be the slightly higher of the two. Greg Pease says 13 - 18% moisture content is ideal, depending on the blend. I think I remember Steve Saka saying with cigars, you are shooting for something like 12-14%. The Greg Pease statement I am sure of, I can't remember exactly what numbers Steve used, but it was somewhere in that ballpark.
Tobias Lutz 
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