Many winters ago i was at my sisters place outside Chitown and it was 10 degrees outside. So my sis doesn't allow smoking in the house (new baby and all that) and I happen to have a very nice Cuban cigar in hand so I go outside to have a smoke in Long johns and Parka (doh!) I'm maybe a third of the way through and the stogey starts to taste like dung. I had others from same box and were outrageously nice, so I was mystified and pissed off all at the same time .
I'm at a party a few days later still in Chitown and one of the fellow guests listened to my little query and quipped that my cigar had frozen!! WTF!! It made perfect sense, and I have never gone up "there" (gulp) again in the winter. Dammit!!