Please help!! Being smoked out! Does a cigasrette contain a given amount of....

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...cigarette smoke in one, regardless if it is deeply inhaled and puffed out into the air every single second, or if you set one in an ashtray and just let it burn?

It be nice to know this because I am breathing in clouds of expelled cigarette smoke in a small unventilated apartment.
 
well, there will be some difference between the smoke that has passed through a person's lungs and the smoke that has not, just as there is some difference between the air that has passed through a person's lungs and the air that has not
 
If they're your cigarettes then either quit smoking or stop whinging.

If they're someone else's cigarettes then tell them to stop, or kick them out, or you leave the apartment.







Iamme - one more neuron and he'd qualify for a synapse!
 
Iamme said:
...cigarette smoke in one, regardless if it is deeply inhaled and puffed out into the air every single second, or if you set one in an ashtray and just let it burn?
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If you inhale, you provide more oxygen to the fire. In other situations, this would lead to a cleaner burn, with less unburnt residue and less carbon monoxide.

I can't say this applies to cigarettes, though. It's probably irrelevant. But it's a valid question.
 
For once, Iamme has asked a reasonably valid question (albeit one that he could have answered himself with a little Googling: try looking for "side smoke" or "side stream smoke"). It is certainly suggested that smoke coming directly from a cigarette ("side-stream smoke") may be more damaging than smoke inhaled by a smoker ("main-stream smoke"):
The surprising fact is that side-stream smoke has higher concentrations of noxious compounds than the main-stream smoke inhaled by the smoker. Some studies show there is twice as much tar and nicotine in side-stream smoke compared to main-stream smoke, as well as three times as much of a compound called 3-4 Benzopyrine, which is suspected to be a cancer causing agent. There is also 10 times as much carbon monoxide that robs the blood of oxygen and 50 times as much ammonia in second-hand smoke.

(Source)
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See also http://www.webmd.com/content/article/25/3606_1496

I second Wollery's advice.
 
We like to say 'two sandwiches short of a picnic' but that's not appropriate in this case because picnics are enjoyable.


Unless you get ants.
 
Mojo said:
Apart from John Major (who tended to get things not quite right), who used the phrase "one apple short of a picnic".
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Actually, when I said "we" like to say, I was referring to me and John Major exclusively. He and I are often grouped together as sources for platitudes and random quotes.
 
I always liked "a coupla fries short of a Happy Meal," myself.

Being in the South, however, I am compelled by law to include the phrase "bless 'is heart" or "God love 'im," which must be inserted into all derogatory sentences, thereby sanitizing them, i.e. "Bob? Bless 'is heart, he's dumber 'n a sack of wet mice."
 
"Cuts with the dull edge of the knife"
"Has trouble with doors"
"Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree"
"Few cards short of a full deck"
"Playing with a deck full of Jokers"


Had a first sergeant in the Army that had some funny ones, but can't remember many now.
 
Trying to use a screwdriver on a nut.

Slinky's kinked.

He's flooded it.

He's smoked his load straps once too often.

Check his piss test. I think he's been drinking from the side tanks.
 
wollery said:
If they're your cigarettes then either quit smoking or stop whinging.

If they're someone else's cigarettes then tell them to stop, or kick them out, or you leave the apartment.







Iamme - one more neuron and he'd qualify for a synapse!
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I'll take a peppermint synapse, if you would. :)

It's my friend's apartment. I gave up smoking 21 years ago in hopes to live and breathe up until the end, without coughing or gasping for breath. Sometimes friends come over and they also smoke and the smoke just hovers in the air. I use his computer in the kitchen and this smoke wafts by me, and the air currents are such that it WOULD have to come my way, instead of going the other way, dadgum it. Even if I open the back door and front door, the vacuum created in the alcove area of where the computer is causes smoke to get drawn into my area.

But regarding the VOLUME of the smoke: When you see a cigarette in an ashtray, just burning...yes, it can appear thick, but it is like a stream that goes straight up and doesn't appear all that volumous. But when someone takes a puff and exhales it, I swear that MANY cubic feet of smoke comes billowing out per each puff. And I don't know if tobacco makes the same amount of smoke once it is lit, irregardless of whether it is being puffed or not. Maybe it just seems like it's more. But i need to read on and see if someone knows the answer.
 
A kangaroo loose in the top paddock.
The lights are on but no-one's home.
Hasn't got all his/her oars in the water.
Only nineteen bob in the pound. (UKians will get that...)
 
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