How do you light a cigarrette? As a non-smoker I have always wondered. When you light it do you puff or do?

Question

suck the air? Do you put the tip in the flame or by the flame? Just curious.

Answer 1

You put the end into the flame and kind of suck the flame onto the tobacco to get it to light. Then you get smoke - you know, like from a bonfire - into your lungs & cough it out. Later you get a horrible headache.You wonder how people do it more than once, how they aren't sick from this, why you think it's cool. In the morning you cough up some yellow stuff. You think 'I can stop anytime, and I will, tomorrow'. Then you find you can't.

Please don't try it, honey. You know it gives you bad skin, lung cancer, damages babies & all the other stuff; along with the thousands of pounds spent on it in a lifetime. Just look at the old smokers around, do you want to look like that? So don't be curious. With the bans and the fact that it's becoming more socially unacceptable I'm sure it'll die out soon, in UK anyway.

I once had one of those ones with the white filter & put it in my mouth the wrong way round - tried to light the filter & couldn't understand why it wouldn't light! (That's just for information, by the way.)

I loathe smoking. It's evil.

Answer 2

Put the cigarette into your mouth, and close your lips around it. Apply the flame to the tip of the cigarette, and as it touches, give a slight inhale. To an observer, the end of the cigarette will glow a bit. Then you can shut the lighter off.

You do this thirty times a day. It doesn't always lead to throat cancer, but too many times it does. Don't start.

Answer 3

I used to put the tip to the flame and suck it, gave up just over 4 months ago but still crave a ciggy most days, just don't even think of lighting one up OK.

Answer 4

Hold the flame to the tip of the ciggarette and inhale slowly until the tip glows alight. Best done with a zippo lighter ofr that beautiful first blast or smoke and petrol.


It's been 5 years this janruary since I gave up and I still miss it.

Answer 5

It pretty much depends on the type of cigarette you are smoking. A lot of menthols you can just hold it near the flame, but with regular, you have to put the tip in the flame. Either way, you have to inhale to get it started properly.

Answer 6

You suck a bit on the cigarette while holding the flame to the tip. It takes about seconds for the tobacco to catch fire. The test of whether its lit is if you can blow out smoke after that first suck-up.

Answer 7

I just touch the tip on the edge of the flame and suck! By the way it is time for another one :o)

Answer 8

well I suppose they could have been those colors... I think the main point of the coloring system was to differenciate. Bright color, like red captures the attention and tells us to stop- yellow is not quite the same, but still attention grabbing. Green is mellow, so we're allowed to cruze on through. Yet green is totally a different color scheme so it's easy to tell the difference from a distance. Personly, I think orange would be awesome in place of yellow... but then it'd be a litttttle too close to red... I think I'd stop when I wasn't supposed to... (and probably get honked at~! lol)

Answer 9

I put the tip in the flame and suck it!

Answer 10

In the flame suck cough curse think I should give this up get it burning properly and say ah thats better