For some reason a carton of "full flavor" cigarettes have turned into ultra light pieces of shit after spending about a week and a half in the refrigerator. Is there any way to reverse this easily so that I can actually get a fucking drag off of any of these smokes, or is the carton good as garbage? I'm used to very strong/harsh cigarettes(being of English background with a family full of smokers) and smoking these extremely light pieces of shit frustrates me a lot. Any help on how to quickly dry these cigarettes out or reverse this strange process would be greatly appreciated, especially since cigarettes are very expensive these days, and this has happened before.

Leave them out in the sun?

Um...

Why the hell did you put them in the refrigerator in the first place?

Do you live some place with a big tobacco beetle problem? If thats the case, the refrigerator for TWO WEEKS is not the solution. You put them in the freezer, for a SHORT period of time. Just so they get cold enough to kill the larvae.

As far as drying them out... they're already dried out. A cold environment like a refrigerator or a freezer, is very dry, even though it may seem like there's moisture in there, there's actually very little. A freezer has practically none at all.

As for what you can do... I suspect because its cigarette tobacco, therefore shredded... and it doesn't retain moisture very well at all, that there's not much you can do it all.

I don't know if this will make them seem stronger, but to make them more smokeable, you need to get them to a proper level of humidity.

If you have a humidor for cigars that properly humidified, you could always put them in there for sometime and see how they do. If you don't, I recommend you do the following.

Take a plastic container (I'm thinking 'tupperware' like if you know what that is, but any kind that seals fairly tight will be good), one that is not MUCH larger than the carton of cigarettes. Place the carton inside the container. Along with the carton, place a plastic bag (just a small sandwich bag sized one) with sponge inside. The sponge should be fairly moist, though not so much that there will be any significant amount of water in the bottom of the bag. Leave the seal on the back mostly open. The wet sponge (your humidifying element) well create an environment inside the plastic container with a relative humidity much higher than in your house where you live (unless you live in Hawaii or some other tropical type place :P), and this humidity will go into the cigarettes.

What you have created is a makeshift humidor like the ones used for cigars. Now, cigars should be between 60-70% relative humidity. Cigarettes don't need this much, so I'm not exactly sure how long you want to keep your cigarettes in there. Just experiment.

What you might want to do, is do a small scale experiment. Open up one pack of cigarettes, and put about ten of the cigarettes in a much smaller plastic container (Still one that seals), and then also place the plastic bag with the wet sponge in the container as well. Seal the container and try them the next day. Its possible they may be too moist entirely, so you may want to instead try smoking after 6 hours, then 12 hours. Its hard to know how long this will take. IT also may be the case that for an entire carton of cigarettes... in packs/boxes, and then in another box (the carton), it will take much longer for the tobacco to change how moist it is. So you may want to take the packs out of the carton if you try it on a large scale.

Experiment with this. But if you want to get your cigarettes back to their proper humidity, THIS is the best way to do it.

Or, you can sell them to school children and use the profits to buy two cartons and not put them in the fridge.

Cut the filters off.

Because you put them in the refrigerator any moisture that was in it was sapped out, nicotine is highly soluble in water so no doubt your smokes are now just the shitty tobacco puree without any of the nicotine.

Cut the filters down.

It should help.

Cut the filters off.

Heh, several times when I'm drunk and I light a cig by the filter.. I always end up cutting if off and smoking the rest. :(

Heh, several times when I'm drunk and I light a cig by the filter.. I always end up cutting if off and smoking the rest. :(

I've done that once.

Bloody Kents.

Because you put them in the refrigerator any moisture that was in it was sapped out, nicotine is highly soluble in water so no doubt your smokes are now just the shitty tobacco puree without any of the nicotine.

Since when did nicotine evapourate along with water?

I doubt nicotine content has any effect on flavour anyways.


*ObZ

Since when did nicotine evapourate along with water?

I doubt nicotine content has any effect on flavour anyways.


*ObZ

I'm not saying it was evaporated, just that moisture is pulled out of the smokes, so most likely the box would have a higher nicotine content then his cigarettes.