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Originally Posted by Pseudosacred
Alright, that's good to hear. So, what is too extreme of a temperature for cigars?
Also, thanks for your quick response!
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There is no real too extreme in temperature for cigars. You'll find a sticky here about freezing cigars, you'll find many posts including a stickied thread on how to do so safely here. Even 100+ degree heat isn't bad in and of itself.
Wild fluctuations are another issue. Take a cigar from a house at 80 deg outside to -40 and you will probably have an issue.
The biggest concern with temperature usually revolves around the hatching of the tobacco beetle. This pest is common and invasive in all the worlds tobacco crops. All producers use pest management to reduce its prescence in a finished product. But there is no way to be 100% rid of this pest. The tobacco beetle egg, which is usually what is present in a finished cigar, as the beetle lays its eggs on the leaf, hatches between 75 and 90 degrees.
Most evidence suggests that temperatures below 75 degrees will supress the hatching. Freezing for a sufficient time will kill most live eggs, again no pest control strategy is 100% effective, and this is why there is interest in doing so with cigars. A tobacco beetle outbreak in a box of cigars can render the entire box or more into useless dust given enough time.
So in essence the real concern with temperature is about storage not in usage or temporary conditions. Cigars all in all are tough things.