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This has never happened to me before. I just lit up my Montecristo Toro Grande, and here's what I'm faced with! Does this happen alot? Anything I can do?

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Permalink Reply by JohnLongIsland on January 25, 2009 at 4:05am

Toro Grande is a Connecticut shade wrapper, so it's not that it's a delicate wrapper like a candela. Either the humidor whence it came was too dry, or us in the northeast this time of year sometimes forget our cigars out in the cold and light them up right away. You could smoke through it and just correct it with a lighter or just carefully clip it and relight it. If it had multiple cracks then it's the old expression "put it in your pipe and smoke it".

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Permalink Reply by Koapoorpeople on January 25, 2009 at 1:05pm

It's a nice smoke, just touch it up and drive on. Sucks when that happens.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Burke- Not An Expert on January 25, 2009 at 1:25pm

Thanks all. I'd picked it up at the cigar shop yesterday, and it is the first cigar I've bought there that came in a tube. Maybe that had something to do with it? It certainly didn't feel dry, and nothing about the wrapper indicated a split before lighting it.

Anyway, I just continued to smoke it, and though it was like sitting in a cloud for a while (it produced a tremendous amount of smoke as the wrapper was lit independently), once I got past the split, it was fine.

Thanks again!