Cigarette smoke

[ha_banos]

I feel sorry for these cigarette smokers having no choice but to grab a quick opportunity when they can for a smoke. Obvs.

But why is cigarette smoke so intolerable? Even walking 10+m behind a smoker in an alley walking to the station. Even the smallest amount of smoke and I couldn't breathe.

I obviously don't find cigar smoke difficult to breathe around!

Is there a particular chemical? Googling... (Poor Google feeding the EU tax coffers again...)

I'm sure this was a regular packet cigarette and not rolling tobacco from the lack of aroma.

B.

[K444HEP]

I feel sorry for these cigarette smokers having no choice but to grab a quick opportunity when they can for a smoke. Obvs.

But why is cigarette smoke do intolerable? Even walking 10+m behind a smoker in an alley walking to the station. Even the smallest amount of smoke and I couldn't breathe.

I obviously don't find cigar smoke difficult to breathe around!

Is there a particular chemical? Googling... (Poor Google feeding the EU tax coffers again...)

I'm sure this was a regular packet cigarette and not rolling tobacco from the lack of aroma.

B.

I have no idea, but as an ex-cigarette smoker, I have no idea how I used to do it. They smell like death to me now.


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[Emaresee]

many moons ago I worked with a guy who had spent his summers working for Gallaghers. As a student he did bits of everything. He was helping put tobacco into one of the big shredding hoppers. They took it from bales, tipped it into a big hopper like a grain store you might see on a farm, at the bottom of which was a big spinning blade to chop it up. What also went in at the top was the thing that shocked him. Huge quantities of chemicals got tipped in too... all to give shelf life, consistent burn, consistent colour, consistent flavours etc. Now that's within the scope of expectation.

One day as they were unpacking a bale - straight from the boat -out crawls a spider the size of a dinner plate...! he freaks out, but the lads who do this every day were as cool as a cucumber. One quick whack with the back of a spade and it was flat.... then in one clean well practiced move it was scooped up and popped straight into the hopper.

Now I'm not saying that its a part of the standard recipe... but it might explain the odd smell!! Weirdly it wasn't the reality of shovel loads of chemicals that turned him of cigarettes...



When I was a Harrods the manager of JJ Fox, Jean, used to implore me to convince my girlfriend at the time to move from cigarettes to small slender cigars. Her view was simple - cigarettes are fill of crap that's not listed on the pack, and while cigars aren't exactly a health food supplement, they are just tobacco leaves....

[PeeJay]

I remember ages ago watching a video on YouTube called Cigar 101 where a condescending old git was explaining cigar smoking to a young woman. He told her that cigarettes were filled with chemicals designed to get the nicotine into your bloodstream as fast as possible whereas cigars were simply rolled up leaves as Matt said above.

[ha_banos]

It's the smell and something else that makes it impossible for me to breathe in through my nose with cigarette smoke. Worse effect on me than even diesel fumes!

BBQ smoke is not as bad either.

Cigar smoke I can inhale nasally no problem [emoji16]


Read here a risk from cigar smoke is erectile dysfunction. At which point I closed the page

https://www.verywellmind.com/facts-about-cigar-smoking-2824739

[Marbleman85]

I remember when i first packed the cigs in 3 and a half years ago and i started vaping...never looked back. I got a huge dose of flu which the doctor told me was withdrawal symptoms of the additives that they add into cigarettes(the nicotine level in my vape pen was the same as my cigarettes.)I can honestly say that i cant stand the smell of cigarette smoke now,it has a vile smell which i can detect from a mile away,and over the years it is gradually getting worse as the cigarette companies try to keep the product affordable for their customers by adding more crap to the tobacco.

I love the smell of cigars(obviously)and pipe tobacco...and i can tolerate the smell of rolling tobacco as long as it is a good brand that hasn't been cheapened too much...i used to love smoking Drum

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[PeeJay]

Read here a risk from cigar smoke is erectile dysfunction. At which point I closed the page
https://www.verywellmind.com/facts-a...moking-2824739

And there was me thinking it was my age!