FidelCashflow Posted May 7, 2018 Posted May 7, 2018 With a few years of collegiate sciences (long) behind me, I know just enough to be dangerous. I was thinking about the mold study done a few years ago, and I thought it would be interesting to run cigar smoke (inhaled from the cap like any normal person would) through a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer. Tests could be run on a variety of sticks, old and new, LE/RE/LCDH, etc. The goal would be to try to quantify some of the flavors and notes people pickup from their smokes. In addition to the smoke, part of the unburnt tobacco leaves could be tested as well. In my cursory research, I haven't come across any study like this. Has anyone else seen anything similar? Does anyone have access to a lab that might entertain such an experiment?
JR Kipling Posted May 7, 2018 Posted May 7, 2018 I haven’t seen anything like that. Maybe I’m a dinosaur, but this would be IMO like running a girlfriend or your wife through a battery of medical & psychological tests. Some things are far too complex and sublime for number crunching. There’s much to be said for a little mystery in life. 2
PapaDisco Posted May 7, 2018 Posted May 7, 2018 The winery industry has gotten pretty sophisticated in being able to identify flavor compounds. This science has enabled them to develop filters to remove the undesirables. Kind of a enological cheat if you ask me, but it would be interesting to know what is specifically in cigar flavors and which tobaccos produce that. Otherwise we're just continuing the perpetual guess work of cigar analysis.
PartagasIV Posted May 7, 2018 Posted May 7, 2018 I'd be interested in doing this on the various strains HSA has used since 1997 as well.
Diabolicalpherpher Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 There are plenty of studies that have looked at the compounds in cigarettes so you can just turn around and do it for cigars. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26653840 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26605856 I think the problem is that you have to know what you are specifically looking for since you can't just inject 'smoke', you have to use the right solvent to dissolve the compounds you are looking for after capturing the smoke in some sort of a matrix. I think most studies to date looked for compounds that are hazardous to human health and not necessarily compounds that stimulate gustatory and olfactory sensory neurons and the perception of those stimuli by our brain.
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