Welcome to Uncle Anh Phungs' safety advice about smoking.
If you just have to smoke then do it as safely as possible.
1. Lighting a cigarette.
My advice is "Do not breathe in the flume of the lighter flame."
This may sound confusing. However when you hold a cigarette in your mouth and light it by drawing in, then you are breathing in the gases of the lighter flame. A better way is holding the cigarette in your fingers and holding the flame to the end of the cigarette. Only when there is ignition of the tobacco should you then put out the lighter and then puff on the cigarette.
2. Smoking just enough and leaving the butt.
My advice is not to smoke all the cigarette. This is because when you get to the filter end, the smoke is not as cool as you would like. Too hot to breathe in to your lungs. As a guide, leave about two centimeters at the butt end.
With the short "standard" rollies leave half the cigarette at the butt end. Save the bumper and use the tobacco to roll a new rollie.With extra "long" rollies leave about five centimetres at the butt end.
An explanation of why I give this advice.
When you breathe in hot smoke or flume then it will burn the throat and lungs. This may lead to emphysema or other problems.
Also the heat dries out the mucus lining on the inside of the lung causing damage to the lung.
Heaters used during winter also cause this problem, sometimes called the flu.
If you just have to smoke then do it as safely as possible.
1. Lighting a cigarette.
My advice is "Do not breathe in the flume of the lighter flame."
This may sound confusing. However when you hold a cigarette in your mouth and light it by drawing in, then you are breathing in the gases of the lighter flame. A better way is holding the cigarette in your fingers and holding the flame to the end of the cigarette. Only when there is ignition of the tobacco should you then put out the lighter and then puff on the cigarette.
2. Smoking just enough and leaving the butt.
My advice is not to smoke all the cigarette. This is because when you get to the filter end, the smoke is not as cool as you would like. Too hot to breathe in to your lungs. As a guide, leave about two centimeters at the butt end.
With the short "standard" rollies leave half the cigarette at the butt end. Save the bumper and use the tobacco to roll a new rollie.With extra "long" rollies leave about five centimetres at the butt end.
An explanation of why I give this advice.
When you breathe in hot smoke or flume then it will burn the throat and lungs. This may lead to emphysema or other problems.
Also the heat dries out the mucus lining on the inside of the lung causing damage to the lung.
Heaters used during winter also cause this problem, sometimes called the flu.
