Do tobacco products expire?

Question

Do tobacco products expire?

Answer 1

It depends on storage conditions. Humidity can lead to the forming of mold and will quickly ruin cigarettes and any other tobacco product.

Cigars and pipe tobacco shouldn't be kept too dry either, aficionados use a special box called a humidor that maintains the right level of humidity for storing them. If you keep these dry, you have to re-humidify them before smoking, else they'll be pretty nasty.

Tobacco for the sheesha / hookah / water pipe (call it as you wish) needs to be used within a short time, it's no good if it dries.

Cigarettes can be stored for a pretty long time, as I have noticed. The best smokes I *EVER* had were a bunch of 40 year old cigarettes which had been stored in good conditions (DRY is the keyword here).

Yup, forty years old.

I'm not sure about rolling tobacco. Most people prefer it a bit moist, but I like to store it for a year and smoke it really dry.

Answer 2

Yes.  Tobacco goes stale if not stored right.  Cigarettes need to be kept pretty dry, but even if dry, they get stale when exposed to the open air.  Good cigars can dry out if not properly stored in a humidor; a dry cigar does not burn right and tastes harsh.  Pipe tobacco also should be smoked at the right humidity (that is why it is stored in sealed containers).

Answer 3

Everything that exists expires. The timeliness of such is dependent on how they are preserved, but old cigarettes, that have not been maintained in a dry place, are nasty to smoke.

Answer 4

Yes they do. Depending on what kind of tobacco as well. Dry tobacco in cigars and cigarettes will maintain longer then say chewing tobacco or Shisha.