Partially Smoked Cigar

[CigarNut]

Originally Posted by chippewastud79

Proper way is to toss it in the trash. If a cigar has sat for more than an hour, it ends up in the trash. Never, ever, ever, EVER put a previously lit cigar into a humidor.

Originally Posted by Ogre

Don't put back in the humidor, it will contaminate your stock. For me if it's more then 20 minutes I don't relight. From my readings, if you know you are putting it down, blow back through the cigar. When you go to relight cut about 1/2 inch off the burnt end, then smoke it!!!

As others have stated: if you know you are not going to come right back then you should purge (blow through it) the cigar before you set it down. Remove the ash and purge it again before you relight it.

Don't put it in your humidor or near any other unsmoked cigars. If you have to put it in something, put it in a ziplock -- all by itself.

Having said that, any cigar that has sat for more than an hour is just not going to taste as good as when you first smoked it. It may not be totally bad, but it will not be as good.

For me, I would toss it, but feel free to try it out...