The cellophane wrapper

The cellophane wrapper, on or off? Seems to be one of the first questions asked by those new to cigar smoking. I have found that many of the more experienced cigar smokers prefer to take it off, but this may have more to do with tradition than anything else. Proponents on both sides of the debate make good points, but in the end it seems to be a simple matter of preference. Some say that the wrapper doesn't breath very well, i.e. transmit moisture, and that leaving it on will hinder the aging process, while others point out that cellophane has numerous microscopic holes that allow the transmission of water vapour and flavour blending.
With the above in mind, I decided to perform a little experiment and thought that maybe a few fellow hobbyist on this site might be interested, so I humbly submit the following:
I wanted to test how well cellophane transmitted water vapour. First, I completely wrapped my hygrometer in cellophane, one layer thick. I then placed it in an atmosphere with a low RH content. For this, I put the wrapped hygrometer in a sealed container with a small container containing sulpheric acid, 90% pure from a bottle of professional plumber's drain cleaner. Sulpheric acid is extremely hygroscopic, meaning that it will absorb moisture from the atmosphere. In fact, if you were to half-fill a small glass with sulpheric acid and leave it exposed to humid air, in a day or so it will have absorbed so much moisture that the liquid would overflow the glass. It's basically like a super-powered dessicant pack.
My hygrometer read 68 RH at the start of the experiment and after 12 hours it didn't seemed to have moved. Without the cellophane wrapping the RH begins dropping almost immediately upon sealing it in the container and soon plummets. I then placed the wrapped hygrometer in a high-humidity environment, a small bathroom filled with steam. Again I could see no change in the reading. Next, I placed two small pieces of tissue paper dampened with water into the container with the sulpheric acid, one in cellophane and one bare. The bare paper was soon dry, but the one in cellophane didn't seem to loose any moisture.
From my experiment, I couldn't see much of a water transference through the cellophane. Am I saying that my experiment was conclusive? Of course not. Perhaps moisture is getting through the cellophane, just on a slower basis. Obviously, such an experiment would have to be repeated under various conditions before anything can be proven emphatically, but it does suggest to me that cellophane might not "breath" as well as I had once thought. Perhaps allowing the experiment to continue for several days or weeks would show a slow transference of moisture.
Based on what I have found so far, however, I believe that I will begin storing my cigars without their cellophane wrappers, at least for cigars that I am interested in aging.
It is not my intent to start an argument or step on anybody's toes with this post, I just thought that other's may find it interesting as well.