Puffing

Puffing is a technique to make smoke (usually tobacco smoke) into the oral cavity. To do this, generates a negative pressure in the mouth, so that the smoke passes into the mucosa and the taste receptors. Thus, the nicotine is absorbed and bound to tar particles flavors can be " erschmeckt ".

After usually only a few seconds of exposure to the smoke is blown out again. For cigars and pipes is taken depending on the type approximately one train per minute. Some smokers also attract rare.

The smoke is not usually, as with tobacco smoking, inhaled directly into the lungs ( inhalation ). When puffing of taste is in the foreground, which is why many pipe tobaccos special Würztabake or other flavorings, such as vanilla get added.

Although puffing less a health risks than inhaling, you sit compared to not smoking in addition to the nicotine addiction risk also increased cancer risk from.

Smoking cannabis is often referred to in the vernacular as puffing, although in this case the classical definition does not apply, because the smoking of cannabis smoke in the rule for receiving the psychoactive ingredients is inhaled into the lungs.

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