Smoke - Smoking, Cigarette, Smoke Signal, Kipper, Smoke Testing, Chimney, Smoke Screen, Sidestream Smoke, Smoked Fish (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Smoking, Cigarette, Smoke signal, Kipper, Smoke testing, Chimney, Smoke screen, Sidestream smoke, Smoked fish, Montreal-style smoked meat, Aspirating smoke detector, Smoked salmon, Pastrami, Smoke point, Tyndall effect, Chipotle, Smoked beer, Speck, Smoke ring, Smoke composition, Smokebox, Smoke grenade, Lapsang souchong, Smoke bomb, Liquid smoke, Black Forest ham, Cowl, Smoked salt, Rookworst, Smoked glass, Colored smoke, Morteau sausage, Zhangcha duck, Ringelmann scale, Smoke hood, Beerwurst. Excerpt: A cigarette (French: "small cigar," from cigare + -ette) is a small roll of finely cut tobacco leaves wrapped in a cylinder of thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder; its smoke is inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth and in some cases a cigarette holder may be used as well. Most modern manufactured cigarettes are filtered and include reconstituted tobacco and other additives. The term cigarette, as commonly used, refers to a tobacco cigarette but can apply to similar devices containing other herbs, such as cloves or cannabis. A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its smaller size, use of processed leaf, and paper wrapping, which is normally white, though other colors are occasionally available. Cigars are typically composed entirely of whole-leaf tobacco. Rates of cigarette smoking vary widely, and have changed considerably over the course of history - since cigarettes were first widely used in the mid-19th century. While rates of smoking have over time leveled off or declined in the developed world, they continue to rise in developing nations. Nicotine, the primary psychoactive chemical in tobacco and therefore cigarettes, is believed to be psychologically addictive, although it does not engender a physiological dependency (e.g. discontinuat...