Have started smoking recently, been doing this everytime before I smoke because people around me does it
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If you want eating food to be painful starting in your early 30s, by all means keep smoking.
First off – don’t start smoking. It is a terrible habit that cost you money and your health. If you can, quit now.
That said, people are packing the cigarettes. Tobacco in the individual cigarettes can become loose during shipping and stocking, so hitting the bottom repacks the tobacco more tightly. This leads to a better smoke, as the cherry won’t fall out on you during.
It is called “packing the cigarettes”, it’s supposed to make the tobacco tighter in the cigarette so it burns a little longer. It isn’t necessary to do with every cigarette brand (you might make a little difference with Marlboro/Camel/Parliament), but it’s especially unnecessary with some (like American Spirits, those things are pretty tightly packed to begin with).
It compresses the tobacco closer together, so that the air flow is better (for what it needs to be for a cigarette). Too much air flow, and your smoke will run out very quickly. Not enough airflow, and it will take a long time to smoke.
You should just roll your own. It’s MUCH more economical than buying packs of tailor-made cigarettes. Trust me on this one.
Make sure you’re smacking the top of the pack, it tamps the tobacco in so the hots don’t fly off when you ash, and you get a smoother hit.
and stop smoking, worst mistake I ever made was starting.
It packs the tobacco into the cigarette to make it more pleasant to smoke. Generally the tighter it is, the more smoke you get, longer the cigarette lasts. And opposite if it’s looser.
It’s called packing or tamping. It’s totally unnecessary, as your cigarettes are already packed. In a blind smoke, you very likely won’t be able to tell the difference. It just makes you look like a cigarette junkie.
Unlike others and their dire warning about smoking, you’re a grown-ass adult and can make decisions for yourself. I realized at a way later age than I should have that we as a society are so inundated with this blind rhetoric that “smoking is bad, don’t smoke”, indoctrinated with it at such a young age, that we never question why people start smoking to begin with. We all know smoking is bad, and yet, we pick up that cigarette for the first time, anyway. Why? I’m not a habitual smoker, I do enjoy an occasional smoke, though my vices are cigars and pipes.
What most non-smokers cannot comprehend, because they’ve likely never tried (and it’s not their fault), is that smokers can like smoking.
And non-smokers also cannot understand how for some smoking can become a necessity, tied to one’s socioeconomic status (you shop at convenience stores, a marker of where you stand, and I know that life myself). Most habitual smoking is done by the lowest economic tiers of our society. No one ever questions that, either – they just accost them with blind rhetoric without really examining what’s going on.
Probably the same reason people smoke in the first place, habit.
Try it a side by side comparison of a packed cigarette and an unpacked one. Dollars to doughnuts you can’t tell the difference.
That said go and ask older people how they feel about smoking. You’ll find tons of people who say, “I didn’t think I would get addicted and I wish I had never started.” before you find a single one who says, “I wish I started smoking when I was younger.” or even, “I’ve been smoking for X years and I’m happy with that choice.”
Almost nobody starts at a pack a day but after a few years most smokers go through way more than they did when they started.
Why did you just start smoking? Gross
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