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From: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Smokers enjoy the taste?
Message-ID: <240@luke.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 17:33:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.240
Posted: Wed Jun 19 17:33:31 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:24:46 EDT
References: <2646@decwrl.UUCP> <268@azure.UUCP> <1333@hammer.UUCP>
Reply-To: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Organization: Uncle Bene's Farm
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Summary: 

In article <1333@hammer.UUCP> dce@hammer.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>In article <268@azure.UUCP> chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen) writes:
>>Mike Moroney writes:
>>> A friend of mine claims that one of the reasons he smokes is "for the taste"
>>
>>Actually, I think long term smoking can destroy the taste buds thereby making
>>the taste better, in a relative sense that is.
>>
>>Chris Andersen
>
>My experience shows that smoking doesn't destroy your taste buds that badly.
>
>... what percentage of the smoke from a cigarette actually touches
>the smoker's tongue? When I smoked, it was very rare that I smoked more
>than half of the cigarette. Most of the time I just held it, and I almost
>always left about 1/6 of it because of the burning. Of that 1/2 cigarette,
>most of it would never get near my tongue.
>

You must have a very tricky mouth, David.  The process of smoking
includes drawing the smoke into that very same MOUTH.  Unfortunately for
you tongue, it lives there.  Or do you have a tube that attached to your
cigarette and slides gently to your lungs, bypassing the mouth entirely?
Somehow, this doesn't quite jibe with your next paragraph (omitted) in
which you state that you can indeed identify you brand of cigarettes by
the TASTE!  Yes TASTE - what you do with your TONGUE (you've heard of
taste buds, haven't you?  You had them when you were a child.)!

Of course there's a difference in taste between menthol and regular
cigarettes.  And that difference is perceived in more than just taste (a
sensation in the mouth).  Nonetheless, there are two truths here:

	1) You cannot smoke a cigarette (or any other burning object)
	   without the smoke touching your tongue
	
	2) Smoke from burning objects does indeed reduce the sensitivity
	   of taste buds, nasal passages, and other delicate tissues in
	   your head.

You wanna smoke?  Go ahead, pollute yourself.  But for your sake and
mine, don't lie to yourself.

An EX-SMOKER who's made it.
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