Humidors, in the broadest terms, refers to any room or container
that is used to maintain constant humidity and can also refer to
a room in which priceless art such as paintings or even the
United States Declaration of Independence is preserved. However,
when most people hear the word humidor, they automatically
associate it with ?cigar.? That is probably not unexpected since
the words have very nearly become inseparable in our modern
language.
From popular cigar clubs and rooms to tobacco stores in modern
malls, nearly everywhere one looks, there is a humidor used to
preserve and maintain cigars. Because of the universality of
cigars, the pursuit for that perfect ?smoke,? and the wide range
of styles and prices for humidors, anyone who smokes cigars can
now afford to own a cigar humidor. This has also served to
reinforce cigar humidors as an inseparable term.
Even though humidors can be used to store any tobacco product,
be it cigar, pipe or cigarette, since cigarettes are so rapidly
consumed, there is no need for people to store them in a
humidor. Therefore, most often one will see cigars stored in a
humidor along with pipe tobacco.
According to some historians, Zino Davidoff, in the first part
of the 20th century, is accorded the honored position of having
designed and built the first cellar humidor for storing cigars
sold through his family business. Today, there exists a wide
variety of cigar humidors from the small, desktop model to the
large walk-in room humidors.
While there are many variations in style, size, materials, et
cetera for cigar humidors, one constant is that each one must
maintain a stable humidity level, generally at 70%, designed to
keep the tobacco at its freshest. Some cigar humidors may also
offer constant temperatures and some may have fans to help
maintain a constant humidity throughout the container (since
even in a room, humidity levels may vary from area to area). At
any rate, cigar humidors are built, purchased and owned by
people from all social strata.
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detailed information on cigar humidors, travel humidors, and
humidor plans. Humidors Info is the sister site of Cigars Web.
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