When smoking, do not rush your draws. Tobacco tastes best cold; heating the tobacco by drawing too much, too quickly, or with too high a frequency will heat the tobacco behind the cherry, and make it taste worse. Relax, breathe, then take another puff.
In addition to a can of deodorant, chewing gum or breath mints are common items to be carried by smokers, in order to mask their scent or help others mask your scent.
A more fancy form of smoke inhalation is called the "French Inhale". Pulling this off requires practice in front of a mirror. Begin just like any other form of inhalation, with the smoke in your mouth. Now slowly blow the smoke out of your mouth using your cheeks and tongue (as you did before drawing smoke) while simultaneously breathing in fully with your nose. If done properly, smoke will travel from your mouth, into your nose with little to no loss. Very showy.
Ashing: knowing how to ash where is important. When smoking outside, it is common practice to ash on the ground, preferably not landing any ashes on people nearby. When holding the cigarette between the pointer and middle fingers, flicking the butt of the cigarette either up or down with your thumb is acceptable. When holding the cigarette between the fingers and thumb, tapping the cigarette down with a finger or two is fine. When smoking near an ash tray, do not flick the cigarette tip down. When holding the cigarette between your fingers, bring your thumb down across the butt of the cigarette, tipping the end up and allowing ash to fall straight down. When smoking a cigarette between the thumb and fingers, ash normally into a tray. Smoking in a car also requires special attention. Dropping a cigarette outside is laughable, but when in a car this can cause damage to the interior, burning holes in any plastic material in a matter of seconds. If the owner of the car does not mind, keep the windows down at least four inches. Try to breathe the smoke out the window; hotboxing does not accomplish anything with tobacco. Ash out the window, and try to ash when there is either strong wind going backward (as in when driving 30+mph) or when there is no wind, so that ash does not leap back into the car. Throwing a spent cigarette out the window is illegal, but common. If there is an in-car ash tray, use it.
Another, far less harsh version of inhaling smoke of any kind is called "shotgunning". To do this, a person (not the smoker) draws smoke into their mouth (as detailed above), but instead of inhaling (s)he blows the smoke directly into the would-be smoker's mouth, where they can inhale it. This is often done for beginner smokers, or when intimacy is craved.
Another variant on putting cigarettes out outside is to squeeze the cigarette while twisting it between your fingers, pushing the cherry and tobacco immediately behind it out, leaving the cigarette unlit in your hand. If smoking is cut short and you're out of smokes, this is a handy way of keeping something for later.
Please be courteous to your environment. Don't leave cigarette butts lying on the ground. Find an ashtray or put the butt in a trash can (ensuring it is completely put out).
Touching the cigarette butt with your tongue is uncommon, but in certain circles and with certain cigarettes, it is a common practice. Many clove cigarettes have a flavored butt, and licking one's lips or the butt itself allows the smoker to taste it. Also, touching your tongue to the bottom of the butt (on the edge of the paper on the end of the filter) allows for the entire tongue to taste the incoming smoke.
When smoking when you shouldn't be, or around people who shouldn't be, keep a can of Axe or Tag (any aerosol deodorant) to use, or offer to non-smokers. Not only will this save you if you need saving, but is considered good manners to ensure that non-smokers need not smell like smoke.
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