Smoking in the Humidor?

[Veritas]

First I've heard of ashtrays in the humi. Normally we just walk though to get to the back office or allow people to make a selection while smoking.

It was a first for me too. My guess is that they were always in there. There were several regulars chatting away in the humidor, all smoking with the staff.

A single lit stick for a short time (passing through to the office or grabbing a product) wouldn't bother me, but this place was like an extension of the lounge. It wasn't all that big either.

 

[balboa]

Yeah I don't like it if they are smoking in the humidor. The guys at the b&m are always cleaning and dusting the lounge. I wouldn't want all that garbage on a fresh cigar. I could see if there is a really good ventilation system, how that would work.

 

[bwhyte]

My local B&M is a huge humidor. They allow smoking anywhere. I would say no though if the humidor was small.

 

[ciggy]

Saw an ashtray in my local the other day with stogie butts however I did not smell any smoke. He has a large humidor so maybe that's why. I however would not want smoke in my humidor because I enjoy the aroma of the cigars themselves more than the smoke they put off. Just my opinion :stretchgr

 

[Oblofusc]

I did it once. I was following an employee who knew I was smoking--he had given me the free cigar and lit it. He later led me into the giant in-store humi where were no signs and no one said anything. Yet my gut caused me to stutter-step at the entrance. It just felt . . . wrong. It still felt wrong when I was inside. Cigar smoke in your mouth, and fresh cigar smoke from burning cigars, is good. Old, stale cigar smoke odor, permeated in clothes, hair, a house, or a car, is not good. To introduce that odor into the rich, clean, wonderful smell of tobacco inside a humi seems a crime.

 

[tmoney2007]

I haven't ever seen an ashtray in a walkin...

Fresh tobacco smells fine, and burning cigars do too, but stale old smoke comes from old butts.

 

[Alwayslit]

Most of the B&M's I've been to haven't allowed smoking....with the small walk-ins. I don't because I think it would affect the cigars....imho. The only place I can think of that would allow smoking around cigars is JR's.

 

[MadBear]

Just like cigar smoking is a matter of personal taste so is smoking in a humidor. Personally I don't think it should be allowed. The smoke lingers in the humidor longer than it would in a ventalated room so it can possibly alter the taste of the cigars in the room. Would someone smoking in a humidor stop me from buying in that store no, but I won't smoke in one.

 

[Gokian]

To me it seems to be going against what we try to accomplish with a humidor. We are trying to create a perfect state where cigars can be stored and aged properly. Then you add cigar smoke to the picture and it becomes unstable imho. I wouldn't want it to hurt the cigars in any way so I would never do it myself.

 

[okia42]

A few places I go to the whole place is a humi. I think its the old school design of cigar shops. All the new ones over the past few years all have a humi with no smoking inside. Then they have a lounge area.

 

[SanCristobal]

I'm used to Holt's humidor so when I first voted I thought why the hell not, but then I thought about little taste of cuba in New Hope, that'd be a whole different story. See folks...size matters...

 

[SanCristobal]

. We are trying to create a perfect state where cigars can be stored and aged properly.

This brings a few thoughts to mind. I'd assume a room for aging cigars would be separate from the 'show-room' or main humidor to cancel out any variables whatsoever, like the aging vaults at hunter and frankau (no sunlight, cooler and humidity around %62). I can't imagine even smaller shops trying to age product in slide-open humidors or a small walk in...

 

[keinreis]

At the local cigar bars they do allow it, but I have always had that Don't Do It feeling about it. On the other hand another local b&m is just a whole store humidor, and I never feel bad about smoking there., but most of their stuff is under glass.

 

[Big T]

We don't allow customers to smoke in the humidor in our shop, but if one of us employees is just running in to get a bag of pipe tobacco or to help a customer for a minute or two then we can bring our cigars in.


TYLER

Ditto with our store. Running in and out with one is ok but smoking while using as a phonebooth is not cool. Places like CI are HUGE so it isn't a problem.

 

[podman28]

I couldn't imagine taking a lit cigar into a walk-in humi unless the whole shop is humidified.

 

[LiLo]

I would say its a bad idea. The smell of lingering cigar smoke is disgusting, i wouldnt want that infecting my cigars.

 

[andy]

Good poll. I always wondered about this myself.

 

[board32degrees]

There's a casino with a cigar bar in the city of Snoqualmie and both are very nice and a little over a year old. The walk in Humidor is medium to small but high traffic.. I'm very new to the whole cigar thing and wasn't sure if it was acceptable to walk in with a lit cigar. So I asked and the guy working the register and he said by all means . This whole building allows you to smoke a cigar. Any where you want.. I did walk in and I kinda wish I would have waited until I was done. There was 4 of us smoking in there and it was a bit overwhelming. It made it hard to pick out a few sticks for the road...



So my new guy vote is NO. You shouldn't smoke in them, it defiantly takes away from the experience.

 

[Robinsond]

If I'm in a shop and I wanna check out the sticks, I ask first. If the answer is yes, then I go right in. If the answer is no, then I place it outside and then go in.

 

[Robinsond]

There's a casino with a cigar bar in the city of Snoqualmie and both are very nice and a little over a year old. The walk in Humidor is medium to small but high traffic.. I'm very new to the whole cigar thing and wasn't sure if it was acceptable to walk in with a lit cigar. So I asked and the guy working the register and he said by all means . This whole building allows you to smoke a cigar. Any where you want.. I did walk in and I kinda wish I would have waited until I was done. There was 4 of us smoking in there and it was a bit overwhelming. It made it hard to pick out a few sticks for the road...



So my new guy vote is NO. You shouldn't smoke in them, it defiantly takes away from the experience.

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