Recent years have seen a hefty rise in cigarette prices. The major reason is the heavy tax imposed on cigarettes by various states in the US. Another reason for the rising price is the series of multibillion dollar suits filed against tobacco manufacturers. Most smokers find discount cigarettes an easy to avoid the impact of [...]
Want to lose weight? Try hypnosis – it just might be the best way for you to lose those unwanted pounds. Hypnosis, it is claimed, can help obese people learn new healthier eating patterns and retrain towards a healthier lifestyle. This claim is not without controversy, though.
The rising incidence of obesity has sparked a bevy [...]
“It is easy to quit smoking; I’ve done it hundreds of times,” Mark Twain once quipped jocularly. It is no wonder most smokers who want to quit smoking end up like the illustrious American author.
When you smoke, you breathe in over 4,000 chemicals including those present naturally in the tobacco and those formed as [...]
A cigarette is a small paper-wrapped cylinder. The cylinder contains cured, shredded or cut tobacco leaves. A normal cigarette length is 120 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter. When the non-filtered end is burnt, it results in the tobacco being burnt and creates smoke. Cigarettes are used to inhale the smoke of the [...]
A cigar box can come in many shapes and sizes, and hold anywhere from five or six items to a complete collection containing hundreds of cigars. Great for gifts, cigar boxes serve both to protect and preserve their contents, and to display them in an attractive, elegant setting.
Modern cigar boxes are often similar to [...]
Devised in the Middle East several centuries ago, the hookah is considered very hip among teen smokers in the US. The hookah, also known by different names as the shisha, narghile or the slang term ‘hubble-bubble’, actually consists of a metal cylinder fitted with a vessel containing burning coals on the top, a vessel containing [...]
The slow and relaxed experience of smoking a hookah, which includes preparation of the hookah and the tobacco, is the whole point of hookah smoking. It’s not about a buzz or a nicotine fix, it’s about the relaxed space, among friends and out of time, that is created by the hookah and the act of [...]
For cigar smokers around the world, there is no greater pleasure than relaxing and puffing on a classic cigar. The essence of these wonderful handmade cigars is their flavor, which can be maintained only when they are kept moist at a particular level of humidity. Cigar humidors serve the purpose of preserving the cigars at [...]
There are numerous vendors who offer humidors at low prices. Many retail stores have departments that sell humidors of many kinds. Typically though retail stores will offer limited styles of smaller desktop and travel humidors. There are also stores that specialize in humidors and cigars that offer upgraded models of humidors and may even offer [...]
One important accessory for a smoker is a cigarette lighter. With a cigarette case, a holder and a lighter, smoking becomes a more satisfying experience. As is the case with holders and cases, the lighter is once more a predominant accessory which speaks about a personality to the world.
A cigarette lighter is basically a metal [...]
Shops that sell cigars, cigarettes, pipes, herbal mixtures and accessories such as pipes, hookahs and humidors are called smoke shops. They are found in almost every city and enjoy patronage from smokers of all kinds of tobacco and tobacco alternatives.
Smoke shops sell all kind of smoking devices. In addition to the ones listed above, [...]
Cigarette coupons are generally given out by sellers once a customer buys a particular number of cigarettes. They are also sometimes given out by guerilla marketing representatives, who hand out the coupons in bars as well as other adult social settings in an effort to get smokers to switch brands to their own specific brands. [...]
For the true cigar lover, there is a lot more to the whole cigar experience than merely smoking. To truly enjoy the cigars, they need to be maintained properly, to preserve their flavor and essence. Cigar humidors help do just that by maintaining an optimum level of humidity and prevent the cigars from drying out. [...]
Cigars, which probably originated in Spain, have been embedded in popular culture and social life all around Europe and America for several centuries. Today cigar smoking is considered to be as elitist as wine-tasting. It has become one of the idiosyncrasies of those in the upward rungs of society.
The major attraction of cigars is in [...]
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD does not have any cure. But with the help of medicines and cessation of smoking, it can be kept under control. Different types of medicines cure different types of symptoms. Mucus, breathlessness, cough and fatigue are all the symptoms of COPD. Based on the intensity of the particular symptom [...]
Cigarettes and cigars are a multi-million dollar industry around the world. Cigarette smokers around the world cannot pass a single day without puffing on these tobacco products. Many smokers don’t realize that they have become addicted to a very dangerous substance until it is too late. All cigarettes contain nicotine, an organic compound found in [...]
One of the most important and useful accessories for smokers is the cigarette holder. Cigarette holders are generally used by smokers to prevent smokers’ lips from touching the cigarette, and to keep their hands clean. A cigarette holder is tubular, with a broad end to receive the filtered end of the cigarette. The other end [...]
Secondhand smoke, also known as passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke, is blamed for about 38,000 deaths annually in America alone. Secondhand smoke is the smoke that is emitted into the atmosphere when a person smokes a cigarette or a cigar. Secondhand smoke contains two types of smokes – mainstream smoke, which is the smoke [...]
Cigar lighters come in all shapes, sizes and styles, and they are one of the most important accessories for any serious cigar aficionado.
There are many brands available on the market today, most of which can be purchased at one of the numerous online cigar stores found on the Internet. One of the [...]
The tobacco used in hookahs is different than that associated with cigarettes, or, indeed, any other form of smoking. It is, traditionally, a damp blend–called tobamel or maassel–of fresh tobacco leaves with molasses or honey and semi-dried fruit or fruit pulp. Some smokers would add pomegranate juice or perhaps rose oil to the water, which [...]
Smoke is the result of any incomplete combustion. When carbon-containing substances are not oxidized properly (that is, when they burn incompletely), then particles of that substance form a suspension with air, which is called smoke. Smoke usually contains carbon particles in hydrocarbon form, but sometimes it may also contain sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine, etc.
Smoke is always [...]
Cigar humidors are one of the most essential cigar accessories. These quaint boxes not only help store the cigars, but also maintain the optimum humidity level. Unless the humidity level is maintained, the cigars dry up and tend to lose their original flavor.
Most cigar humidors are made of wood, although plastic and glass humidors [...]
As prevalent in parts of the Middle East and India as delis or Starbucks are in the United States, with one on every corner, hookah lounges and hookah bars, once quite rare in the West, have lately been seeing a rise in popularity here. From the friendly ambience of many of these establishments to the [...]
Hypnosis can either be beneficial or harmful depending on the way it is utilized. It is therefore very important to learn everything you can about using hypnosis safely before you practice it.
If you cannot undergo formal psychological training to learn hypnosis, don’t attempt to educate yourself. It is best to always consult a professional. Remember that [...]
The practice of cigar smoking has been on the rise in the U.S. since the early 90’s. In part due to a reputation as a glamorous alternative to cigarette smoking, the increase can also be tied to its popularity among celebrities, as well as to the social nature of its practice. But whatever [...]