Wednesday, June 25, 2008

What is a cigarette?


There are many different sorts of cigarettes around the world. Smokers from different countries prefer cigarettes of different strength and with various smells and aromas.

Tobacco

As a rule, producers use various sorts of tobacco when they manufacture cigarettes. Tobacco is imported from different countries and it is combined in specified way in order to please different smell for smokers. The smell, aroma and taste of cigarettes depend on the kind of bag.

In the tobacco industry are used 3 main sorts of tobacco like: “Virginia”, “Barley” and Oriental.

The necessities of the smokers are different depending on in which country do they live. For example, in Great Britain, the smokers prefer cigarettes which are from English bag, which contain mainly the Virginia tobacco. In the USA, the smokers choose cigarettes from American bag, which composition includes all 3 sorts of tobacco.

Cigarettes Paper

It is used a special paper for cigarettes manufacturing. This special paper affects the stability of ashes forming and the level of smoking components which fall into the lungs of the smokers. This kind of paper is of high porosity, air permeability and it is used when are produced cigarettes with low content of gums.

Filter

Filter is destined to reduce the quantity of smoke and specified components which fall in smoker’s body. Majority of filters are made of organic fibers – cellulose. Cellulose doesn’t have it’s own taste and is sufficiently encrusted to hold the shape. Together with other elements of cigarettes construction, such as ventilation, filters usage with different efficiency of filtration permits to obtain various levels of content of smell and taste.

Ventilation
Cigarette is ventilated in order to lower the level of smoking components, first of all, gum, and nicotine and monoxide carbon. All cigarettes are ventilated at the expense of natural air permeability of cigarette’s paper. Moreover, many cigarettes are ventilated over perforation of filter’s fillet. In process of air inhaling, which enter over perforation, is combined with smoke which comes from decay zone of cigarette. Ventilation of the filter is the base and obligatory characteristics of cigarette with low content of gums.

Smoke

Tobacco’s smoke is the most complex and the most active studied mixture around the world. As many other natural substances, tobacco contains thousand components (at the moment are about 2500). During of tobacco burning depending on temperature and concentration of oxygen are generated about 4000 smoking substances. The concentration of many of them is extremely small.

The main plume - it is the smoke which falls into smokers’ respiratory system when he inhales, and secondary plume – the smoke which is exhaled from smolder end of cigarette.

The complex structure of cigarette smoke is one of difficulties which the scientists encounter when they decide to analyze the tobacco’s composition. So, in this case, they can’t decide which substances impact the health of the smokers, provoking lots of diseases related to smoking.

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Monday, December 24, 2007

CHRISTMAS Holiday with cigarettes

CHRISTMAS shoppers in USA are being warned to be on their guard for festive fakes after items worth £25,000 were seized in one week.

Trading Standards raids on markets and car boot sales have led to thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit goods including footwear, the latest DVDs and MP3 players, cigarettes, toys, and razor blades being seized.

The seizures include fakes of famous clothes brands including Nike, and latest film titles, including Beowulf and American Gangster.

Chief Trading Standards Officer Mr Jim Potts said: “Trading Standards have recently been given more powers to tackle counterfeits and bootlegs, and we aim to maintain a fair and safe trading environment by making Lancashire a no-go area for fakes.

“For those businesses who do abide by the law it is a real concern to see these traders are making money by offering shoddy products and avoiding the usual taxes levied on honest businesses.”

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Cigarette and time

 

It is rather generalized category. Here we can mean any process of expectation, with the aim to while away the time with the help of a cigarette.

You can feel pleasure only from tobacco flavor. The process itself is directed to the human mentality.

In most cases people smoke exactly because of their physiological habit, standing in traffic jam, waiting for the train arrival and many other cases.

Have you noticed that the person who is always occupied with the work is not a smoker? He just does not have time to light a cigarette and to smoke it.

 

 

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Cuba - Paradise for smokers

Every day flavored smoke of Cuban cigars fills the rooms of Havana’s hotels without causing alarm of personnel or complaints of guests.

Here, you won’t see such tablets as “smoking-room” or “don’t smoke”, it’s almost a decency to puff cigar or cigarette smoke here.

These exclusive privileges are charted for guests in “Conde de Villanueva” – hotel for smokers in old part of the Cuba’s capital.

The employers assert that there is no such place in the world. There are just nine rooms in two-storied building for Cuban tobacco lovers. The apartments are named by the sorts of cigars: “Cohiba”, “Upmann”, “Montecristo”.

The main place of interest of the hotel is smoking-halls, where tobacco-lovers will find all necessary things for tasting of the true “Havanas”.

The true experts can visit “Casa del Tabaco” situated in the hotel. Here you’ll able to purchase all sorts of cigars or to order something specific.

 

For example, “tabaco” – half-meter cigar.

 

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