Poll: Do you like the smell of cigarettes/cigars?

Do you like the smell of cigarettes/cigars/pipes?

  • Cigarettes - Yes

  • Cigarettes - No

  • Cigars - Yes

  • Cigars - No

  • Pipes - Yes

  • Pipes - No

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JudgeDeath said:
Actually... Good cigar yes... I forgot how nice a Cuban cigar smelled, when smoked IN CUBA :)
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Absolutely.

I'm jealous of your trip!

I think a lot of people tend to have been around the cheap/nasty tobacco and cigars people buy from the corner shop and in that case I'd agree, pretty much all of it is pretty horrendous to be around. The quality stuff that you need to fork out for, or that might only be available in certain places? Some of it genuinely has a nice scent, although for obvious reasons it's stuff that should be avoided for general use. I wouldn't buy something like a cigar regularly, but I'm happy to enjoy one on a special occasion once or twice a year.
 
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Kenai said:
Before smoking or whilst smoking?

I kinda liked the tobacco smell of some cigars etc. prior to smoking but can't stand the smell whilst they're being smoked, any of them.
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Another vote for this.

Tobacco smell = kinda nice.
Smoke smell = instant headache and nausea
 
Gray2233 said:
Absolutely.

I'm jealous of your trip!

I think a lot of people tend to have been around the cheap/nasty tobacco and cigars people buy from the corner shop and in that case I'd agree, pretty much all of it is pretty horrendous to be around. The quality stuff that you need to fork out for, or that might only be available in certain places? Some of it genuinely has a nice scent, although for obvious reasons it's stuff that should be avoided for general use. I wouldn't buy something like a cigar regularly, but I'm happy to enjoy one on a special occasion once or twice a year.
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Awesome place to visit.. go do it before the Americans get there in numbers and make it like they do...

Saw cigars being made/rolled and tobacco dried etc.. one of the many good things to do there, plus of course the architecture, food/drink, history (Bay of Pigs etc) and not forgetting beautiful clean blue water. Wife really called that holiday well :-)
 
I was born in '63 and had chronic, extremely life-limiting asthma up until I was about 13 when the miracle that is Ventolin came on stream. I had to leave home (damp) for my asthma to start to settle, but at least there was some kind of relief from 13 onwards. So I DREADED being near folk smoking; on coach trips, trains, buses, at Grandad's, at my uncle's, walking past folk when shopping... smoking was everywhere (even school if you turned the wrong corner) and awful.

And yet now, when I experience the smell of cigarettes etc so very rarely (hardly ever), the whiff of someone walking past who's smoked recently sends a jolt of weirdly warm nostalgia through me. I sometimes wonder if, like dogs, the older we get, the more we rely on our sense of smell as all the other senses start to dull. No idea if that's true, but I had to tick all three as YES, because I'd be lying if I ticked NO, which is what I want to say. I'd probably be a lot closer to NO if I was exposed regularly, but I'm not.

Tell you what does get on my chest though (quite literally): woodburners! As autumn kicks in it's like the 70's before the coal fire clamp down round here, in a relatively affluent bit of Cheshire. The bonfire smell is everywhere. Not a fan of smog returning.
 
Kenai said:
Before smoking or whilst smoking?

I kinda liked the tobacco smell of some cigars etc. prior to smoking but can't stand the smell whilst they're being smoked, any of them.
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This.

I like the smell of St Bruno in the pack but I hate the semll once it's lit.


Andrew_McP said:
And yet now, when I experience the smell of cigarettes etc so very rarely (hardly ever), the whiff of someone walking past who's smoked recently sends a jolt of weirdly warm nostalgia through me. I sometimes wonder if, like dogs, the older we get, the more we rely on our sense of smell as all the other senses start to dull. No idea if that's true, but I had to tick all three as YES, because I'd be lying if I ticked NO, which is what I want to say. I'd probably be a lot closer to NO if I was exposed regularly, but I'm not.
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I believe the sense of smell has one of the strongest links to long term memory (it might be the strongest), hence it can bring back a memory more easily than a visual or audible reminder.
 
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Being a ex smoker, the smell of cigarettes doesn’t bother me. It’s the smell of it on clothes etc that I really dislike now. The other week one of the old boys who still smokes was standing near me at the coffee machine and remember thinking to myself I use to smell like that, thats awful.
Now I am going to sound a bit like a hypocrite, because I do love the smell of a cigar or pipe. Especially some of the Aromatic tobacco’s.
 
It's a no across the board for me. With pipes being slightly more tolerable than the others.
 
It's a bit like macdonalds, smells nice, tastes not great. Though i prefer smoking over the mcdonalds if i'm honest, just a shame nicotine is addictive, otherwise smoking would be fine.

Inb4, but one will kill you. Part of the reason why the city sucks, stinks of wee, rubbish and car fume dirt in your mouth, yuk. But apparently this is fine.
 
Cigarettes, no.

Cigars and Pipes, well it really depends on the tobacco. Some of the expensive brands smell great.
 
Tute said:
Cigarettes, no.

Cigars and Pipes, well it really depends on the tobacco. Some of the expensive brands smell great.
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I agree. Cigarette smoke = hell no. I've also voted no for pipes, not because all pipe tobacco necessarily smells bad, but because the people I can recall smoking pipes (have to go back a few years) were using stuff that didn't smell nice to me. I once had a manager who's office always reeked of his pipe smoke even though we worked in a building with a strict no smoking rule!

It's been a while since I was near a smoking cigar, but I've voted yes, in part because it takes me back to things like family Christmas events when I was a young child and some adults would indeed puff on a cigar and it seemed to smell great. Much better than the damn cigarettes.
 
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