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Originally Posted by ter1413 
for 5 yrs?? NO...that's just plain stupid.....
yes for 5 years. ive had 9 year old cigars before that were mindblowing. past that they dont improve much. obviously dog rockets or lawn gars arent going to magically get better with age but well made cigars definitely can age that long and improve
You don't have anything to lose trying to rehumidify (I'm holding out hope for a Davidoff Reserva 12 and a Cohiba Black Robusto), but I wouldn't hold out hope that you're going to get the same flavor profile as you would with a fresh cigar (or something properly aged).
the best cigar I ever smoked was a 2007 Montecristo, followed closely by a 2003 Cohiba. I can guess that they probably didn't taste this good when they were released, else there wouldn't be any for me to smoke in 2011. For the OP, as b & holymadness said, you can rehumidify them and get them back to a smokeable level, but the essential oils that give them the flavor and the richness that you enjoyed 7 years ago are most probably gone by this point. As hard as it is to say this, if you're trying to get back into cigars, I'd throw them away and start fresh. Trying to get these guys back will be painstakingly slow and may end up fruitless in the end. I was trying to do the same thing for a bunch of (crappy) cigars I had in one of my humidors, and ended up just throwing them away because a) they weren't great to begin with, and b) they were just taking up valuable humidor space that I have now used for bigger and better things. PS: thank you for making one of my favorite threads in SF. 
