Thanks for the heads up on the plastic I dont think I knew that. I am thinking it had more to do with weather or the cigar itself. Not to mention the thoughts of having a bug issue just scares the hell out of me
. I had a lot of tar with this smoke, i actually wiped the head of the cigar with a napkin to get some of it off. If it was beetles I would think it would be an occasional popping unless the whole stick was loaded with those damn varmints. This was more of a crackling as the cigar was smoking. When I would draw smoke through to cigar and when I purged mid smoke. I also got it when I relit just towards the end of the smoke as well. It could be a dry wrapper as we had a humidifier going in the room where I was smoking. I keep my cigars between 60 and 65%. I am going through all the remaining DES I have now and do not see a single pin hole along the smokes. I am still going to set up a small ammo can to separate these suspect smokes to be extra sure.