build up in re-lit smokes

[Ken Gargett]

was reading a cuban detective story recently ('red havana' by leonardo padura - certainly worth a read) and part of the vital clue related to a montecristo cigar.

there was a toss away line in one part of the book that suggested that if one had to re-light one's cigar that there was much more of a build-up of nicotine and tar by the time one got to the end than if one smoked it through without having to re-light.

i'm no scientist. does that sound plausible? anyone any info?

[n2advnture]

» was reading a cuban detective story recently ('red havana' by leonardo

» padura - certainly worth a read) and part of the vital clue related to a

» montecristo cigar.

» there was a toss away line in one part of the book that suggested that if

» one had to re-light one's cigar that there was much more of a build-up of

» nicotine and tar by the time one got to the end than if one smoked it

» through without having to re-light.

» i'm no scientist. does that sound plausible? anyone any info?

Ken,

I don't know exactly why but based on experience, I would agree with the statement.

Next you let a smoke go out and start to relight it, blow back through the cigar while relighting it. The "purge" of tars will create quite the nice light show on your lighter flame and actually makes a relit cigar taste much better than it would without "purging".

~M

[Freefallguy]

I don’t know about the tar, but I was once forced to drop a smoke only about half way through (cigarus interruptus) and decided to cut the ash off and put it(ciagr, not the ash) back in the box. ACK ACK ACK. The whole box had been permeated with a nasty old smoke smell. They were NC’s, but it was a lesson learned the hard way.:crying:

Come to think of it, it may well have been tar.