A very common question answered, Do I remove my box of 25 tubed cigars from their tubes before putting them in my humidor, the answer is YES, so what's the reasoning behind this definite answer, Tobacco is an Hygroscopic material which has the ability to absorb or release moisture depending on it's local environment if the environment is humid the cigar will absorb moisture until it equalizes with the environment if the environment is dry the cigar will release moisture, so that's the science lesson finished, the next variable is quality control in an ideal world all tubed cigars would contain the ideal moisture level and the sealed tube would maintain this but we don't live in an ideal world so you have the possibility of tubed cigars even out of the same box being under humidified, ideal or over humidified, so basically you take pot luck as to the condition of your tubed cigars, so what do i do to get consistency, put the untubed cigars in a correctly set up humidor around 68 RH and around 18c temperature, from the science lesson the under humidified cigars will take on moisture and the over humidified cigars will release moisture allowing several weeks for this to happen, only open your humidor once a week to remove a weeks supply of cigars which you would keep in their original tubes. KEEP THE CIGAR OILS AND TASTE IN THE CIGARS IN THE HUMIDOR, THESE AROMATIC OILS CANNOT BE REPLACED.