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moistly · 2023-01-17 14:46:52

You aren’t supposed to inhale the cigar smoke!

olalonde | karma 25101 | avg karma 4.21 · | 2018-08-10 04:42:39+00:00

You don't inhale when smoking cigars right?

dageshi | karma 4662 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2016-09-23 21:11:45

For what its worth, I literally know no one who inhales cigar smoke. A strong cigar is quite capable of making you feel very ill just from absorption via the mouth (too much nicotine), inhaling would quite likely have you throwing up.

klyrs | karma 20410 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2020-07-15 23:47:04+00:00

> Cigar smoke isn't meant to be swallowed like in cigarettes.

But if you're sensitive to nicotine this will get you high in a jiffy. If you like cold sweats, nausea and dizziness, that is... don't judge me.

Like GP, this only happens a couple times a year, mostly associated with high stress.

And fwiw even "sipping" cigars causes oral cancer. Don't smoke, kids.

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8draco8 | karma 1032 | avg karma 3.12 · | 2018-10-20 21:58:00+00:00

Of course they inhale. If not trough cigar then trough second hand smoking which is proven to be even more harmful.

plusminusplus | karma 107 | avg karma 1.81 · | 2023-01-28 10:21:06

Cigar smokers typically do not inhale the smoke, unlike cigarette smokers

udp | karma 3467 | avg karma 5.82 · | 2013-09-28 11:33:48

Well, you're not really supposed to take the cigar smoke back into your lungs, so maybe that has something to do with it.

wild_preference | karma 1125 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2018-10-20 18:53:13+00:00

Well, cigars surely cannot be in the same category as something you inhale.

kazinator | karma 30751 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2018-10-20 15:35:20

Cigar smokers don't inhale through the cigar, but they inhale, just like second-hand smokers inhale.

geggam | karma 1423 | avg karma 1.13 · | 2020-03-04 18:56:00

Cigar smokers FTW...they dont inhale ;)

fapjacks | karma 3671 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2016-11-07 04:26:18

There is no "right" way to smoke a cigar. It's your cigar. Smoke it however the fuck you want to smoke it.

teilo | karma 5618 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2016-11-04 20:50:47

I know all this. I smoke cigars the right way. I also know cigarette smokers that cannot help themselves when smoking cigars. They inhale.

teilo | karma 5618 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2016-11-04 18:14:53+00:00

Unless you are also a cigarette smoker as well, and many of them do inhale cigars and pipes.

Raphmedia | karma 5930 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2016-11-04 17:09:21

When smoking a pipe or cigar the way to do it is to fill your mouth with smoke and then blow it out. You don't inhale it.

ummonk | karma 11811 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2019-03-28 14:48:22

Smoke doesn’t belong in your lungs.

fapjacks | karma 3671 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2016-09-23 20:00:42

The thing about smoking cigars is that you smoke them however the hell you want to smoke them. It's your cigar, you inhale if you want. Do you like ice in your scotch? Have ice in your scotch. Do you like to chew on your cigars and never light them? Have at it. You're supposed to enjoy them, and nobody can tell you how to enjoy something.

mhuffman | karma 2263 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2020-07-16 02:55:51

You "puff" it, not smoke it.

It is akin to taking some water into your mouth through a straw and then spitting it out without swallowing.

A lot of cigars have heavy amounts of nicotine to make up for the fact that most cigar smokers (that I know) do not inhale.

Same fore pipe smokers usually.

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dasKrokodil | karma 262 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2020-03-13 14:38:11+00:00

I don't know much about cigars, but I was always under the impression that cigar smokers do not inhale. Is the nicotine absorption in the mouth sufficiently efficient that smoking a cigar can make grown men nauseous?

eyegor | karma 2084 | avg karma 3.5 · | 2020-03-12 23:32:38

Even a "weak" cigar will mess you up if you don't smoke. If you don't have nicotine tolerance, smoking a cigar is akin to getting drunk. Stumbling around and slurring words.

hueving | karma 14605 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2016-11-04 19:31:42+00:00

So the "you don't inhale it" part of that has absolutely nothing to do with the properties of the pipe/cigar. You can easily inhale on both and you can also choose not to inhale with a cigarette.