How do I get rid of smoke/cigarette smell in a bedroom?
I stay at my boyfriends home quite often. His roommates smoke in the house (which they own). Neither of us smoke and I am personally very sensitive to the smell (I have asthma that gets triggered by long-term exposure to smoke). I have asked his roomies to smoke outside but they refuse to do so as it is obviously their home.
We’re moving in together soon but in the meantime, is there something I can buy (air purifier, dehumidifier?), a machine, that can eliminate or at least HELP eliminate the smoke smell/dirty air in his bedroom?
Thanks in advance!
While you visit there, have your boyfriend to keep his bedroom door closed at all times and the windows cracked open. Clean all the fabric: drapes, rugs, bedding, clothing you can. Wipe down all the walls and furniture (if possible).
Then, hopefully, he’ll have a relatively smoke free space in his house where you can hang out inside when you visit his home. don’t ever agree to live with that roommate – even if you marry your boyfriend.
jerrod88 is right. So long as a smoker is in the house, you can’t plan on ever having a smoke free environment there. Smoke will enter your boyfriend’s bedroom through cracks in the door, whenever you open the door, or through the ventilation system or on a person and clothing that has passed through the contaminated rooms.
Cigars have long been associated with the rich and powerful, with relaxation and rich flavor. Cigar aficionados have created a culture around the art of smoking, assembling various theories and accessories to debate and facilitate smoking. Much like wine tasting, cigar smoking has been seen as a diversion of the upper echelons of society.
It is believed that cigars were probably first produced in Spain, and then quickly caught on in other European countries. Although many different countries manufacture cigars, Cuban cigars have long been highly regarded as one of the most flavorful and rich of all cigars. This is due to regional microclimates that are said to produce the highest quality tobacco, as well as the skill of the country’s cigar makers. Other countries that produce significant amounts of tobacco and cigars include Brazil, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador, Cameroon, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and the United States. Why have cigars long caught the attention of so many? Many speculate that the cigar’s main attraction is in the way it is manufactured. High quality cigars are always wrapped by hand. Unlike cigarettes, cigars undergo a lengthy process of fermentation and aging (much like wine), resulting in subtle flavors and textures. They are highly individual and the best cigars will provide no smoky aftertaste at all.
The taste of cigars is much more complex than cigarettes. The majority of all cigars are created by wrapping three different layers of tobacco leaves together. High quality cigars usually contain long leaves of nicotine as the filler, although they may also contain a combination of scraps. This results in subtle variations, different textures, and complex flavors. Cigarettes, on the other hand, are mass-produced and generally only contain one type of tobacco. Cigars also come in an incredible variety of flavors. The dedicated cigar aficionado can find chocolate, vanilla, apple, and even coffee-flavored cigars!
Although cigars have long been lauded for their smooth and complex flavors, they can also pose a great health risk. All tobacco contains nicotine. We’ve all heard about the negative health risks of nicotine, but what does it do exactly? Nicotine is a stimulant that produces a sense of euphoria. Even the casual smoker cannot escape the fact that nicotine is highly addictive and contains various toxins, carcinogens, and irritants. Although most connoisseurs of cigars will avoid inhaling the smoke, they are still at risk of developing various types of oral and larynx cancers.
can you die bye getting a cigarette put out on your lip?
can you die bye getting a cigarette put out on your lip?
Possibly, but unlikely. It’s just a burn. Wash it, put some aloe on it, and if it’s severe, see the doctor. Remember, you can die from a paper cut if it gets severely infected, but it’s very unlikely. Unless it’s a really bad burn, don’t worry too much about it.
“I just fukin put out a cigarette on my fukin foot!”
I dont smoke pot. I just think there are more pros to legalizing it. If alcohol and cigarettes is legal why not marijuana? Why are people so scared of it? and do you think the goverment will make more money keeping it illegal then legalizing it? there are prescription drugs with worse effects then marijuana. we need to educate the country to understand and not have one sided thoughts. people what happened to free will. its your problem what you put in your body and no one else’s.
Yes, the government shouldn’t regulate what people may and may not put in their bodies.
To cigar smokers, Nicaragua is already legendary. Through regime change, social upheaval, and revolution, this Latin American nation has produced some of the world’s finest tobacco. And since the post-1959 “cigar diaspora”-when many of Cuba’s great cigar makers fled the country to seek more propitious conditions than those they expected to find under Castro-it’s produced many of the world’s finest cigars, too.
Since 1959, Nicaragua has been a cigar powerhouse, producing some of the highest-ranked and best-selling premium cigars in the world: CAO, Perdomo, Padron, Don Pepin Garcia and Drew Estate among many others. It competes even with the wares of the Dominican Republic and Cuba, currently the cigar world’s reigning superpowers. But there’s a lot more to this country than just great smokes: from the marvelous ancient footprints of Acahualinca to the fact that it was the first Latin American nation to elect a woman President, Nicaragua has a history worth knowing about-and one that may impact its future as a cigar lover’s capital.
Roughly the size of New York, the country is rich in natural resources-so much so that nearly twenty percent of its territory is taken up by one or another officially-designated nature preserve. Predictably, this fertile and beautiful country has been the subject of frequent political power struggles: first between the various Spanish Conquistadores and the indigenous population, which has had a presence in the area for at least six thousand years and was nearly wiped out by 1529. Nicaragua was later annexed by the Mexican Empire, finally achieving independence in 1838; since then, rival conservative and liberal factions have fought each other for control of the country’s destiny. There was civil war during the 1840s and ’50s, during which an American pretender, William Walker, briefly declared himself the country’s leader after double-crossing the Liberals who had recruited him to fight in the war. (Several Latin American countries’ armies united to chase him out of the country the following year, in 1856.)
This pattern-conservative-vs.-liberal infighting, with occasional interference from the nearest world power-continued through the twentieth century. A US-backed Conservative regime ruled for decades early in the century, with Marines occupying the country from 1912 to 1933. Left-wing guerilla Augusto Sandino led an effort to expel them, which was partially successful; but Anastasio Somoza Garcia, a conservative, later secretly ordered his assassination, putting an end to a brief left-and-right coalition government. The Somozas ruled until 1979, when a party named after that dead guerilla-the FSLN, or Sandinista party-ousted them from power. The wheel turns again. And again: during the ’80s, the country was torn apart by war between the right-wing, US-backed Contras and the left-wing, ruling Sandinistas (who, on the good side, reduced the country’s widespread illiteracy by a stunning forty percent within five months, but on the bad side, committed human rights violations during the civil war).
The Sandinistas, incidentally, almost destroyed the country’s preeminence among cigar-tobacco growers. In trying to put the desperately-poor, and politically encircled, nation on a more secure economic footing, the Sandinistas ordered tobacco farmers to switch to cultivating cigarette tobacco. (This was before the “cigar boom” of the 1990s; many observers expected the market for cigars to continue to dwindle.) Wherever a person may come down politically, cigar smokers can agree that this was a mistake!
Both sides in the nation’s long culture war were heavily hit in 1998 by Hurricane Mitch, one of many natural disasters to wreak havoc on this beleaguered country. After decades of civil war had handicapped its economy and wrecked much of its infrastructure, this cataclysmic hurricane did away with nearly seventy percent of the infrastructure still standing at the time.
Under the circumstances, it’s amazing that Nicaragua continues to enjoy the regional importance that it does-but sometimes amazing things happen. Nicaragua makes three hundred million in exports every year (mostly agricultural), boasts one of the best-regarded rums in Latin America (Flor de Cana), enjoys a flourishing tourism industry and, of course, makes some truly heavenly tobacco. Though it’s considered a developing nation, it did recently earn a ranking from the World Bank as the sixty-second best place to start a new business-the highest-performing Central American country in this particular ranking, except for Panama.
Some US cigar fans went on high alert recently when the Sandinistas, in the person of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, retook the country’s highest office in the 2006 election. (Yet another turn of the wheel.) So, will history repeat itself, with the currently-ruling left faction pulling the country out of the cigar market again, as it did in the early 1980s? No-or at least not yet. After two years, the country’s cigar industry seems to be holding steady. At least one news source reported in 2007 that members of one of the island’s top cigar-producing families claim to be Sandinistas, which should give them an “in” with the government that wasn’t available twenty years ago. Other cigar experts are also recommending cautious optimism. Maybe history isn’t an entirely closed circle.
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Today, I got sent to the principals office for putting a smoldering cigarette and a hip flask of whiskey in my teacher’s desk. You see, my teacher left the room, and I had it all ready, so I ran up and stuck it in her desk. Then I called down to the office and asked if we could get a janitor in our class to clean up a mess. The janitor and teacher arrived back in the class at roughly the same time. Seeing smoke coming out of her desk, my teacher ran up and opened the drawer. You should’ve seen the shocked look on her face. I said loudly, “Hey janitor! My teacher is bad. Look at whats in her desk.” Nobody believed it was really her’s, and in fact, everyone blamed me (stupid tattlers). Do you think this was out of line for me to do? I thought it was quite funny, actually.
Kicked out of class? You should get kicked out of school. Obviously you have no interest in learning and no respect for those who do.
Will I die?
Will I get any disease?
Or anything else?
If you are exposed to second hand smoke regularly and over a period of time, it can damage your lungs. It’s called passive smoking and it can affect your health.
My friend was telling me how ALL cigarette holders have a filter inside of them. I thought that most didn’t, and they were mainly for show and keeping nicotine etc. off the hands.
Most don’t contain a filter, but here are some that do. there are others if you look. Google cigarette holders with filters
Denicotea Cigarette Filter Holders
Our New Range of High Efficiency Crystal Filter Holders. Use These To Reduce The Amount Of Tar You Inhale When Smoking.
Friend Cigarette Filter Holders
The Friend range of cigarette filter holders has been around for years and provides medium filtration in a small sized, discreet holde
The MackRoller Electric Cigarette Making Machine – Cleaning
Since so many artists, writers, and other creative folks have been cigar smokers, it’s perhaps no surprise that some wonderful – as well as not-so-wonderful – films and plays center on the world of cigars. Some of these works are already well-known, while others might require a little help reaching their audiences. A few of them may not even succeed with help. But for those who celebrate cigar smoking, these dramas (screen and stage) may be special treats.
Anna In the Tropics
The 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, this play, set in 1929, gives viewers a rare opportunity to view the world through the eyes of those who make fine hand-rolled cigars. It concerns the daughters of a family of cigar workers, whose lives are forever marked when the factory’s new lector – the person hired to read to the workers’ reads Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to them. The book becomes part of the factory’s life, inspiring love affairs, jealousies and fights. Hailed by critic Christine Dolen as “a passionate, explosive, tender play filled with poetic-evocative imagery, language that almost seems tactile,” the play managed to beat out new works by the far-more-established Edward Albee and Richard Greenberg for the Pulitzer in Drama. For cigar smokers, it provides a glimpse of the industry’s glory years before machine manufacture and the dominance of cigarettes, before Castro and the trade embargo.
The “lector,” by the way, was a real position. Cigar manufacture is a laborious process requiring constant care, and for many years, for that reason, handmade cigar factories hired a lector (reader) to keep the rollers alert and entertained by reading books to them. Audio books have partly eliminated the need for lectors (at least in some factory owners’ eyes), but other factories still use a lector – perhaps the best symbol of the mental attentiveness necessary to produce well-made premium cigars.
Smoke
This 1995 indie film rendered writer Paul Auster something like a household name – or as close to a household name as authors of existential detective stories get. It’s also a virtual paean to cigar smoking, with its sprawling plot set at the Brooklyn Cigar Company, where owner Auggie Wren ponders the varied types of humanity who turn up therein. (His theory is that everyone in the world eventually shops at the Brooklyn Cigar Factory.) Within this framework, the movie ponders the random yet meaningful connections among disparate individuals – one of the themes of Auster’s writing, and a theme of several important 1990s American art films, including Grand Canyon, Short Cuts and Magnolia. Auster’s selection of a smoke shop as his setting renders the film, which is based on one of his own short stories, especially meaningful for diehard cigar smokers.
Smokin’ Stogies
An entire movie about the search for some missing Cohibas? This 2002 low-budget crime film may not have won any awards, but with two of the stars of “The Sopranos” (whose swaggering, smoking mobsters have done their own bit to promote the smoking of stogies) and its cigar-oriented plot, the film ought to hold at least some interest for cigar lovers. It is described by Cigar Aficionado’s David Savona as “B-level material, an R-rated, small-budget experience that nevertheless should appeal to cigar smokers.” [it] serves up a subject matter palatable to aficionados. The movie includes the search for the mob’s missing Cubans and a plot to put real Cohiba bands on a trove of horrendous counterfeit cigars. There’s also a hilarious cigar-sniffing Doberman Pinscher who can tell a real Cuban from a fake.” If only every cigar smoker in America had a dog like that…
Predator
OK, this eighties sci-fi opus is not about cigars at all – at least not on the surface. Rather, it concerns a scary invisible alien hunter-thing that crash-lands in a Central American jungle and cuts up an elite Arnold Schwarzenegger-led military unit after they’re tricked into illegal Black Ops action by a corrupt major (Carl Weathers). (But what cigar smoker can forget the sight of Schwarzenegger’s character, Dutch, lighting up the fattest imaginable stogie as he suits up?
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