Cigar Accessories

Five accessories cover the core needs of cutting, lighting, and storing cigars. Everything else is a nice extra. Here is the starter kit and what each piece does:

Accessory	What it does	Why you need it
Cutter	Opens the cap so the cigar draws	A clean cut prevents an unraveling, uneven smoke
Lighter	Toasts and lights the foot	A butane torch lights evenly without off-flavors
Humidor	Stores cigars at stable humidity	Keeps cigars fresh for years instead of days
Humidity packs	Hold the humidor at 65–70%	Two-way packs add and remove moisture automatically
Hygrometer	Measures the humidity	Confirms your humidor is actually at the right level

A cutter and lighter get you smoking today. A humidor, humidity packs, and a hygrometer protect any cigars you do not smoke right away. For the storage side of the kit, our humidor accessories & supplies guide covers every piece and how often to restock it.

Beyond the core kit, a few accessories solve specific problems. A travel case protects cigars in a bag or pocket, and a quality ashtray with a deep, wide rest suits a cigar's long ash and larger ring gauge. If you are buying for someone else, our cigar gifts guide bundles these accessories into ideas by budget.

Budget smokers also build functional storage from everyday containers: a tupperdor uses a sealed Tupperware tub, a wineador converts a wine cooler, and an ammo can is airtight and crushproof. All three hold humidity when paired with the right packs.

Boveda also makes humidity packs for cannabis storage at lower RH levels. If you store flower alongside cigars, our Boveda for weed guide covers the right level, and the cigar wraps for weed guide explains how tobacco-leaf blunt wraps compare to standard papers.

For the lighter, one practical question matters on the road: whether you can bring it on a plane. Our lighters on planes guide covers the TSA rules. If you prefer a classic soft-flame, the Zippo for cigars guide explains the trade-offs honestly. And if you need a backup on a road trip, see the car cigarette lighter guide.

A starter kit bundle packages the essential cutter, lighter, and often a travel case or small ashtray into one box, which is the fastest way for a new smoker to cover the core kit without researching each piece separately. Bundles trade a little bit of per-item quality for convenience and a lower combined price than buying the same pieces individually — reasonable for a first kit or a gift, less appealing once you know which cutter and lighter style you actually prefer. Our cigar cutter and lighter combo guide covers how to judge a bundle, and cigar travel kits with a cutter and lighter rounds up kits built specifically for the road. Read the full cigar cutter and lighter combo guide and cigar travel kit with cutter and lighter roundup, or see our cutter brands compared if you'd rather buy the cutter on its own.

One small but genuinely useful add-on worth knowing about: a draw tool (sometimes sold as a draw poker or draw cleaner) is a thin metal probe used to clear a plugged or over-tight draw by gently working a channel through the filler tobacco from the foot end. It is not part of the core five-piece kit, but it is cheap, pocket-sized, and worth tossing into a travel case since a plugged cigar is otherwise very hard to fix once lit.

Choose cigar accessories by how often you smoke and how many cigars you keep. An occasional smoker needs little more than a cutter and a lighter. Once you own more cigars than you will smoke in a week, a humidor with humidity packs becomes the most important purchase, because storage protects everything else you buy. Spend first on the humidor and a reliable lighter, since those affect every cigar you own.

For setting up storage the right way, our guide on how to store cigars walks through seasoning a humidor and holding the ideal humidity.

Beyond functional gear, a small market of novelty cigar-branded items exists purely for fun rather than for improving the smoke — cigar-holder pipes that let a partially smoked cigar rest in a pipe-style stem, and cigar-scented colognes and candles that borrow tobacco, cedar, and leather notes without containing any actual tobacco. These are low-priority, gift-shelf purchases rather than anything a working kit needs; see our cigar brand merchandise and gifts guide for more of this category. Full guide: cigar brand merchandise and gifts.