Cigarettes

[Martin Alvito]

Even as a smoker who’s turned social smoker - you never lose the craving for a fat after a couple ales

This is a very fortuitous misspelling. Enter Whole Lotta Rosie, stage left.

 

[chrismpw]

Your right.. small dosage of nicotine isn't that harmful short term. It's the crap in the fags which makes them burn is the killer. Also your breathing in carbon dioxide which then turns into... Monoxide.

I'm sorry to say I'm vaping to come off them. Tried cold turkey lasted 3 yrs can't use patches or other nrt products. Don't hate on me gone from 15 a day down to 1 a day.

Enter the chemistry teacher....

Potassium nitrate .... that's what's added so that they burn down like a fuse whether you smoke it or not. It's a key ingredient in gin powder. As it is its not particularly harmful in itself, its just the wondrous cynicism of the cigarette industry that adds a component just so your purchase burns away quicker so that you light annother one. What with this and their ignored ability to remove the addictive nicotine, they've really been mugging off their customer base. There is no other need to add potassium nitrate - they don't add it to cigars or pipes both of which go out if not tended.

On a technical note carbon monoxide is made as the ciggy burns and while it can further oxidise into carbon dioxide later on, the reverse doesn't happen (CO2 TO CO).

 

[zebedee]

Enter the chemistry teacher....

Potassium nitrate .... that's what's added so that they burn down like a fuse whether you smoke it or not. It's a key ingredient in gin powder. As it is its not particularly harmful in itself, its just the wondrous cynicism of the cigarette industry that adds a component just so your purchase burns away quicker so that you light annother one. What with this and their ignored ability to remove the addictive nicotine, they've really been mugging off their customer base. There is no other need to add potassium nitrate - they don't add it to cigars or pipes both of which go out if not tended.

On a technical note carbon monoxide is made as the ciggy burns and while it can further oxidise into carbon dioxide later on, the reverse doesn't happen (CO2 TO CO).

Basically either way your Daffy ducked. The Mrs uses those heet things which warms and doesn't burn so you only get 75% of the crap.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I'm not a contrarian!!

Oh wait.

My dear boy one does not inhale cigars or pipes. That is a pursuit for those who smoke the tobacco floor sweeping wrapped in paper. Sure one is exposed to some nasties, but they are very much diluted, much lower risk, which is why they are not addictive and don't give you any buzz other than a lovely smell and flavour. Do you know the cigarette companies had the technology to remove nicotine from tobacco in the 1960s but never did? I can't imagine why. Gotta love unregulated capitalism haven't you... until government belatefly woke up from their tax revenue stupor and realised what smoking was costing the NHS.

Then the tories thought wtf, we'll just run down the NHS until people are so pissed off we can privatise the health service.

As you say, gotta love unregulated capitalism.

Funny thing is, if they'd brought out nicotine free tobacco as another option rather than a substitute, they'd probably have cornered the market of idiots who'd
think 'hey, I can smoke all my life without getting addicted'.

I'm an idiot who has been addicted for 40 years.

I do enjoy my ciggies though.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Enter the chemistry teacher....

Potassium nitrate .... that's what's added so that they burn down like a fuse whether you smoke it or not. It's a key ingredient in gin powder. As it is its not particularly harmful in itself, its just the wondrous cynicism of the cigarette industry that adds a component just so your purchase burns away quicker so that you light annother one. What with this and their ignored ability to remove the addictive nicotine, they've really been mugging off their customer base. There is no other need to add potassium nitrate - they don't add it to cigars or pipes both of which go out if not tended.

On a technical note carbon monoxide is made as the ciggy burns and while it can further oxidise into carbon dioxide later on, the reverse doesn't happen (CO2 TO CO).

Is this in the tobacco or the paper?

I roll my own and they do go out if I leave them.

 

[Bluerover]

Never smoked a cigarette, tried a cigar once but did not take to it. Beer is my enjoyment…..

As posted earlier the pipe and a nice dark tobacco is my delight- with a nice cold Guinness in my man shed!!!

Never liked cigarettes or cigars. My brother loves Havanas and gave me a present of some fairly expensive ones months ago. Still sitting there. Maybe I will smoke one when we get a new chairman

 

[LEONARD]

As posted earlier the pipe and a nice dark tobacco is my delight- with a nice cold Guinness in my man shed!!!

Never liked cigarettes or cigars. My brother loves Havanas and gave me a present of some fairly expensive ones months ago. Still sitting there. Maybe I will smoke one when we get a new chairman

Is this you BR, or Sexton Blake?

 

[Bluerover]

Is this you BR, or Sexton Blake?

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Elementary my dear Leonard

 

[peteblue]

As posted earlier the pipe and a nice dark tobacco is my delight- with a nice cold Guinness in my man shed!!!

Never liked cigarettes or cigars. My brother loves Havanas and gave me a present of some fairly expensive ones months ago. Still sitting there. Maybe I will smoke one when we get a new chairman

I might join you….

 

[chrismpw]

Is this in the tobacco or the paper?

I roll my own and they do go out if I leave them.

Its incorporated in the tobacco of the pre made ones.

 

[Bluerover]

Right, time for a nice pipe of Amphora Original blend in a Peterson Meerschaum. Happy Father's day to all my fellow Blue Father's!!

 

[KaiserEFC]

Awful habit but I’m partial to the odd cigar once in a blue moon.

Vaping is the work of some kind of soy boy cuckold devil though and they should either man up or give it up.

 

[Buckers]

Is this in the tobacco or the paper?

I roll my own and they do go out if I leave them.

Just straights. Nasty. Used to smoke the old lambert and scutler awful things.

 

[Buckers]

Fallen off the fag wagon tonight. Went to the pub and had a few beers with my dad for Father’s Day.

 

[Lob]

Started smoking when i was 15 and smoked about 20 a day for about 40 years. Then about a year ago, I put a full effort in to trying to find decent vaping kits and juices that would help me stop. When i found gear i was happy with i worked out an achievable slow plan which was basically a small weekly reduction of cigs replaced by vaping and around 4 months later i was fully on Vaping with no cigs at all.

Haven't had a cig now for about 9 months and have completely replaced it with vaping which although is still not safe, it is nowhere near as bad as Cigs and the cost is miniscule in comparison. Costs me less than a tenner a week and my lungs, breathing and taste is unrecognisable to what it used to be. Will never smoke again and i get really sad when i see people slagging off Vaping as there is no way could i have ever stopped without it. God send for me and plenty of other smokers.