If you bring some back, make sure you invest in a humidor, or make home crafted one. If you do not, they will dry up and crack and become nothing more than expensive garbage.
There are 3 ways (i know of) that you can keep cigars long. I do one of these.
1. Buy a humidor
2. Create a humidor. I did this by using oversize tupperwear containers (big enough to hold 2 boxes of 25 each). Buy a humidity/temperature detector (cheap from walmart). Use a couple cotton pads, make sure they're damp, and place them in an open ziplock bag. Put the cigars, humidity detector, and ziplock with damp pads in the tupperwear and close. Make sure you monitor the the detector and that it's at 70% and 70 F. If it gets over 70%, just pop the lid for a few hours and close it back up. Works like a charm. I've done this for a year, and my cigars are all in great condition.
3. Vacuum seal your cigars in bunches (I've been recommended in groups of 3-5). Place them in the fridge for a day, and then transfer to your freezer. When you're ready to smoke, take them out of the freezer, put them in the fridge for a day, and then transfer to a humidor (or homemade one) for a day. I've been told by a friend who is really into his cigars (more so than me) that this works wonders and they come out like new.
If you do use a humidor or homemade one, make sure you store somewhere out of sunlight. I store mine in my laundry room.
Good luck.
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