My Tangiers Theory.

[Twang]

I am from Houston where the humidity is really high, I went to school (just graduated) in Montana where the humidity is really low. I couldn't really get tangiers to smoke that well at school, but smokes really well at home. I just got home and acclimated some Tangiers clove and smoked it. Smokes well. A few days ago after acclimating and smoking in Montana, it wasn't smoking well.

Tangiers smokes better in high humidity? What do you guys think?

[freepain]

Dont think it has anything to do with that at all

[Rubi-WAC]

Hmm. You have a point. Oklahoma and Texas aren't too far from each other, but when I was up in Oklahoma for school, I never got Tangiers to smoke well. Dallas is a different story. We are having some bad storms now, and Tangiers is smoking like a champ, in fact all my tobacco is. Tangiers is made in California so if it's a humidity factor then it will smoke well there. Tangiers is so wet that maybe it is because the higher humidity causes to tobacco to acclimate faster. I don't know... just throwing out ideas. Edited May 10, 2007 by whatsacorbin

[Twang]

It could be a weird coincidence but I've smoked Tangiers for 2 years or so, and there appears to be a pattern in my experience.

[oggie505#2]

Maybe just not enough time to aclimate it to a drier enviroment?

[Sonthert]

Yeah, what Oggie said.

Sometimes, if the weather is getting drier at the same time you are acclimating, the weather is getting worse and the tobacco is still lagging behind. I've also been working on some different theories regarding absolute humidity and relative humidity. The absolute humidity is what determines how much moisture the tobacco has (or needs to acclimate to). The relative humidity can hamper or help the acclimation process. For example, if the absolute humidity goes down, and the relative humidity goes up, the tobacco wants to shake off water, but the high relative humidity greatly slows it.