my brother in law is a survivalist guy and he has cigars in with his gold and god knows what else in his safe. I was wondering about that, if they would stay good.
It's a lot like wine, except that temperature AND humidity are very important (more humidity than temp actually). Have to watch both. From what I've seen in cigars though, they go bad easier and quicker than wine does. I would be very uncomfortable storing any overly expensive cigars, myself.
For reference, I remember reading a pack of 5 pre-embargo Cubans cost more then $12,000 - and that was a number of years ago.