I’m not a huge smoker, but I appreciate smoking. Like I bought an old man style pipe, just to see what it was like smoking it. Cigars and hookah’s too. It’s more of a social thing for me. I’m not addicted to cigarettes by any means. And I tried an electronic cigarette at the mall and thought it was really cool, it was kinda like a portable hookah.
Anyways, do you think it would be a good fit for me. It’s rather expensive, and I don’t want to walk around with something that no one else is using, and look like a complete douche, and I don’t want to actually get addicted to nicotine in the process. I know theres a no nicotine flavor or something like that.
Anyways, do you think it would be a good fit for me?
Thank you
If your going to smoke, smoke a pipe. Pipe smoking is a great hobby. The different tobaccos makes smoking fun, you have endless flavors to choose from.
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There is not any doubt that these devices are safer than real cigarettes, but we think the Elicko Taieb, manager of e-cig manufacturer Smoking Everywhere, didn’t help his case when he admitted, in a statement to CNN, that “it is a pretty new release, so we aren’t 100 % sure of the complications at this point, “He went on to claim “we haven’t heard of any negative side effects yet, but we are pretty sure they’re safe.” Whew, well that sure is a load off.
We have 2 competing products : The tobacco fag and the electronic ciggie. Both can deliver nicotine and facilitate the practice of smoking. But there are differences. The electronic cigarette is a reusable product. Cartridges can be filled time after time again. Batteries and atomizers last many uses. Manifestly this isn’t the case with tobacco cigarettes. Let’s take a look at the difference in garbage produced between using 300 tobacco cigarettes and using one bottle of E-Liquid ( approx. Identical to 300 tobacco cigarettes by puff count )
The electronic cig is popular among smokers because it takes out a key root word of smoker. It takes out the smoke. Instead of using flame or tobacco, the electronic cigarette uses a vapor. This is the reason why many folks call it smokeless. There isn’t any real smoke to breathe, only vapor. Another aspect of the electronic gasper is that it is chargeable and incorporates refillable nicotine cartridges which are equivalent to a complete pack of cigarettes. They also cost less than a pack of cigarettes, so you’d be saving money. Many smokers also say the electronic cigarette has virtually the same taste as a normal Marlboro, so you don’t lose the taste. Since the electronic Marlboro is, obviously, electronic, that suggests that it must be charged, which truly does not take long in any way.
Kansas City-area residents are worried about funding health care reform and don’t want additional national debt or new taxes in order to achieve reform, according to a survey released Wednesday by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.
According to the executive summary of the survey, titled “Putting A Local Face On A National Issue: 2009 Public Opinion Survey On Health Care Reform,” area residents fear further unemployment, risings costs for health care coverage and losing their health insurance.
The survey results were released at a health summit presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City at Liberty Memorial Auditorium. Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole and political analyst Robert Laszewski were to speak at the invitation-only event.
VVV Research & Development Inc. conducted the survey of local physicians, hospital CEOs, brokers, large and small Kansas City employers and the general public. Topics included general understanding of reform, acceptance of reform plans, insurance mandates, financing options/taxes, personal accountability and methods to control health care costs.
The survey showed big differences between the responses of so-called health care insiders and those of the general public.
Although 75 percent of insiders rated the performance of President Obama and Congress on health care reform as “very or somewhat poor,” only 49 percent of the general public responded in the same manner.
But a huge split split showed in a series of questions regarding government participation in health care coverage.
To the question: “Several health care reform plans are still being debated in (Washington). Please indicate your current level of support for”:
• Keep our current health care system: overall, 34.6 percent; insiders, 53.5 percent; general public, 31.8 percent.
• Create government-run single payer for all individuals: overall, 23.1 percent; insiders, 2.3 percent; general public, 26.1 percent.
• Create new public option that would compete with private plans: overall, 42.9 percent; insiders, 8.4 percent; general public, 47.7 percent.
• Create new state-run health co-ops with federal guidelines: overall, 30.4 percent; insiders, 13.1 percent; general public, 35.2 percent.
Responses from insiders and the general public were somewhat closer on the question of mandated coverage with possible fines for noncompliance. Sixty-eight percent of insiders supported the concept, compared with 49 percent of the general public.
The survey also indicates that Kansas City-area residents:
• Want subsidies for the poor of at least 100 percent of poverty level initially, not 200 percent to 400 percent.
• Want health care reform that requires coverage mandates with guaranteed issue and waives pre-existing conditions.
• Are worried about a physician shortage compromising quality of care.
VVV Research & Development, after reviewing the survey results, observed that:
• Health care insiders are concerned that Washington is “rushing to reform” and not focusing enough on details. They want more focus on stabilizing Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
• Kansas City-area providers want effective tort reform enacted to reduce malpractice costs and eliminate unnecessary and costly tests and procedures.
• Preferred sources for funding reform include “sin taxes” on cigarettes and unhealthy foods; fraud and abuse auditing; Medicare Advantage cuts; elimination of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA); creation of a new private-payer tax; and taxes on health benefit plans.
The study was conducted in two phases: a qualitative phase involving one-on-one interviews and focus groups, and a quantitative phase involving online/written surveys. Ninety Kansas City-area health care insiders participated in the survey.
A general public sample also was surveyed, comprising two audiences: a Kansas City public online panel of 2,000 and 2,165 members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. The study claims a 95 percent confidence level and a 3.9 percent margin of error.
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I know they are both bad for but when my friends talk about how much better cigarillos (prime times, captain blacks, honey times, etc…) are for you in relation to cigs, I start to become a little skeptical.
A) If you inhale a cigarette but not a mini cigar, which is worse?
B) If you inhale both a cigarette and a mini cigar, which is worse?
C) Which is worse regarding the process in which they are made/ what they contain?
Thanks
ITs hard to say… I know some of those like black and milds use cardboard filler paper and little mini pieces of cardboard paper that kinda look like light brown tobacco — that can’t be good.
It all comes down to personal preference for what you want to smoke.
Also .. cigars are not meant to be smoked but rather “savored” you roll the smoke in your mouth for a flavor — kinda like what tobacco conosuires do with expensive pipe tobacco
A Cigar is a natural product and the quality of a cigar is directly linked with the type and quality of tobacco used in its production, just as the wine depends on the type and quality of grapes used for the brewing.
The fields for tobacco are flat so that the seeds don’t flow away with the water stream. After planting the seed, they are covered with cloth or straw to protect them from the direct light of the sun. This covering is gradually removed as they begin to germinate, and after around 35 days the fields are sprayed with pesticides, they are then transplanted in to tobacco fields usually in the second half of October. The fields are irrigated from below and the leaves are watered both by rain and the morning dew.
The tobacco plant is mainly considered as a three parts plant: the top of the plant is called corona, the middle, and the bottom. As the leaves grow, buds appear at the top. These have to be removed by hand to prevent the plants from stunting leaf and growth. The quality of wrapper leaf is very important for any cigar. A special type of plant called Corojos, specifically used to provide wrapper leaves for the very best cigars. These plants are always grown under gauze sheets held up by tall wooden poles, which protects them from becoming too thick in a protective response to sunlight. Another technique, called tapado can also be used to cover the plants to helps them remain smooth.
During the harvest, leaves are removed by hand using a single movement. The selected leaves for wrappers are put in bundles of five called manojo, or hand. The leaves are picked in six phases:
libra de pie (at the base)
uno y medio (one-and-a-half)
centro ligero (light center)
centro fino (thin center)
centro gordo (thick center)
corona (crown)
The libra de pie section cannot be used for wrappers. A gap of one week is given between each phase. The finest leaves are found in the middle of the plant; the top leaves (corona) are usually too oily to be used for wrappers so they are only used for domestic consumption, and are often used as binder leaves. Each plant is visited for an average of 170 times and the whole cycle from transplanted seedlings to the end of harvesting takes some 120 days.
The wrapper leaves grown under cover are classified by color:
ligero (light)
seco (dry)
viso (glossy)
amarillo (yellow)
medio tiempo (half texture)
quebrado (broken)
The plants, which are grown direct sun, are divided into volado, seco, ligero, and medio tiempo. The leaves from the top of the plant have a very strong flavor, the seco from the middle are much lighter, and the volado leaves from the bottom are used to add bulk and for their burning qualities. To make a good quality cigar, all the various types are blended together, along with a suitable wrapper leaf, in a special proportions to give cigar a mild, medium, or full flavor. It also ensures that the cigar will burn well. Large, average, small size are classified and by physical condition. Unhealthy or broken leaves are used for cigarettes or machine-made cigars. If all the leaves are good, each wrapper plant can wrap 32 cigars. The condition and quality of the wrapper leaf is important for the attractive appearance of a cigar, as well as for the aroma and taste.
The bundles of leaves are then taken to a shelter. The shelter faces west so that the sun heats one end in the morning and the other in the late after-noon. The temperature and humidity under the shelter is carefully controlled, by opening and closing the doors at both ends to take account of changes of temperature or rainfall. The leaves are left to dry for between 45 and 60 days, depending on the weather. During this time, the green chlorophyll in the leaves turns to brown carotene, giving them their characteristic color.
Then these are brought to fermentation houses and placed in piles about three feet high, covered with jute. Enough moisture remains in the leaves to start the fermentation. Heat develops, but the temperature must be watched carefully so that it does not exceed 92 degrees F during the 35 to 40 days that the piles are left intact. The leaves assume a uniform color.
These leaves are then sorted and stripped. Each leaf is carefully examined and graded. Broken leaves are set aside, to be used for cigarettes. The leaves then return to the fermentation area. The second fermentation begins within the damp leaves. The temperature inside must not exceed 110 degrees F for around 60 days. Because of the fermentation process, cigar tobacco is much lower in acidity, tar, and nicotine than cigarette tobacco, making it much more appetizing.
It is now time for the leaves to be sent to the factories or warehouses for further production.
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I was wondering if there are any good online cigarette shops; preferably ones that don’t sell FSC cigarettes. And please don’t feed me your “smoking is bad” lectures; I’ll do what I want with my lungs until I decide to quit one day. Thanks!
Google it. There are lots of online cigarette retailers, but a lot of them were under pretty heavy fire for tax evasion a few years ago. Laws were passed that made it almost impossible to get them shipped anywhere, and in NY, UPS and FedEx had to stop shipping cigarettes purchased online. There was even a rumor that state governments were going to start tracking down people who bought smokes online and start collecting all the state cigarette taxes that they didn’t pay. For some people, that could amount to thousands of dollars!
Is there an American Indian reservation anywhere near you? You can get good prices on smokes there.
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I have Bic cigarette lighter that I left in my pants after a long night out. I then proceded to put them in the wash with the lighter still in the pocket and now my lighter is dead. It’s a brand new lighter and it was a gift, so I’d like to fix it….
Make sure it still have fluid in it and if so it will probably work after a few clicks and probably work by the time you get this answer
Are you planning to join the ever increasing group of individuals who love to smoke varied types of cigars? Or, are you already a chain cigar smoker looking to learn more about the hobby you have grown to love? Whether you are a novice to the world of cigar smoking, or a seasoned professional? Hence smoking of cigars are living standard of persons and a symbol of life style. Nowadays people are smoking cigars in comparison of cigarettes in parties, puff and poker rooms where smoking is allowed. Whoever you are, online stores offer you a wide range of knowledge on cigars that any cigar smoker can be pleased about.
Popular Cigars
Verdadero Organic, Padilla Series 68, Nub, Man O’ War and ACID Opulence 3 are some of the popular cigars that people enjoy the most. These cigars will appeal to more experienced cigar smokers, but beginners can also try.
The internet helps people greatly to purchase cigars at economical rates. A wide-spread search for cigars will offer literally hundreds of results, with a number of low-priced cigars to choose from. There are a number of sites available, which is perfect for any cigar aficionado looking for quality cigars at reduced prices.
With the easy availability of cigar accessories, the demand for cigars has been increased than ever before. It is a fact that since the early 1990s sales for cigars and accessories have risen to heights, which is previously unseen. Due to their popularity among celebrities, cigar smoking has been considered as trendy and status symbol. Of late, cigar smoking is also considered as a simple recreational hobby, showing an integral part of a luxurious lifestyle.
Cigar Poker Room
A simple search through the internet offers various cigar poker rooms, where smoking of cigars is allowed this is because, a number of poker players love to play the game with the puff of cigar. These rooms motivate you to join in daily Freerolls and free poker tournaments like the comfort of your own home. Although certain brands of cigars will always be costly, discount cigars and cigar accessories such as cutters, ashtrays and lighters are affordable for almost anyone if purchased through the internet.
Cigar as a Gift
Gifting cigars is not a bad notion if they are gifted to a novice or avid smoker on various occasions such as bachelor’s party, anniversary and even wedding. So, present it to please your partner.
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