Tobacco beetles (Lasioderma serricorne) are nasty little buggers; left to their own devices, they will eat tobacco, lay eggs in cigars, and make cocoons, completely destroying your cigars in the process. Because their eggs hatch quickly, 5 to 10 days, and tobacco beetles can lay up to 100 eggs at a time, it is important to act at the first sign of an outbreak: a pin-sized hole on the wrapper of one your cigars.

Once you have discovered an infestation, you have two options: you can either dispose of the infested cigar or freeze it.

1. Disposal:
Carefully place the infested cigar in a couple of well- sealed plastic bags so the tobacco beetles won't spread, and place the bag in the garbage can.

This method may be quick and easy, but it is not particularly cost effective; chances are, if eggs have hatched in one cigar, they have hatched in other cigars as well. So unless you're absolutely sure the tobacco beetles haven't spread to other cigars, or you're willing to throw out all of your cigars, freezing them is probably a better route to take.

2. Freezing:
Tobacco beetles die at temperatures below 40