why do ppl tap unopened cigarette boxes before opening them??

[Draco]

Cause the chicks love it!


no, not really. I have no idea what I'm talking about. <-- non smoker.

 

[Ameesh]

im not a smoker but i know the reason, it is habit carried over from when people used chewing or pipe tabaco, the tin they carried it in would be slammed against the hand to pack the tababcco and then it would be easier to get a pinch out of it. the habit moved over to cigerates but it doesnt really serve a purpose with them.

 

[hoihtah]

tcsenter hit it right on the nose.

it has a lot to do with the way it burns.

another thing...
if you don't pack your cigarettes... then your tip will burn in > shape.
if you do pack... and pack well... the tip will burn in ] shape.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Perknose

Thats it exactly. With non filters, if you dont pack them, you get alot of tobacco in your mouth, but if you pack it, then the end that is packed wont get tobacco in your mouth. Everyone who does it with filtered smokes does it cause they have no idea why their doing it, and they think their supposed to, although it makes very little difference.

Not at all true. A packed cigarette is less likely to have the burning end (cherry) fall off accidentally. The tighter the roll, the stronger the cherry. (yes, I know how wrong that sounds )

I smoked for over fifteen years before I quit two years ago. And I could easily tell the difference between a packed and unpacked cigarette. Unpacked cigarettes were many times more likely to have the cherry fall off and burn whatever it fell onto. Unpacked cigarettes were also more likely to empty themselves in the box while held in a hip pocket when you're walking around.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Perknose Thats it exactly. With non filters, if you dont pack them, you get alot of tobacco in your mouth, but if you pack it, then the end that is packed wont get tobacco in your mouth. Everyone who does it with filtered smokes does it cause they have no idea why their doing it, and they think their supposed to, although it makes very little difference.

Not at all true. A packed cigarette is less likely to have the burning end (cherry) fall off accidentally. The tighter the roll, the stronger the cherry. (yes, I know how wrong that sounds ) I smoked for over fifteen years before I quit two years ago. And I could easily tell the difference between a packed and unpacked cigarette. Unpacked cigarettes were many times more likely to have the cherry fall off and burn whatever it fell onto. Unpacked cigarettes were also more likely to empty themselves in the box while held in a hip pocket when you're walking around.

Well, that all sounds reasonable. All I can say, is that when I first started smoking at 16 (I finally stopped at age 37), the older guys all smoked non filtered cigarettes, and they ALL would take the pack, turn it upside down (don't know why, but they did it that way) and tamp the hell out it. Then, they would open the pack, pull out a cig, and insert the tamped end in their mouths. They did this, as Shockwave seconded, to avoid eating tobacco. They also looked down mightily on we punks with our filtered Winstons and later, Marlboros.

For the last ten years or so of my habit, I rolled my own, mostly using Drum tobacco rolled in rice paper without glue. You know, to be healthy!

 

[bonk102]

yeah, it settles the tobacco so it's a better smoke

 

[Aceman]

There, so we now have the answer. Now, when is a punk coming in here to change the subject and start complaining about how packed cigarettes secondhand smoke irritate their lungs more than unpacked cigarettes?

 

[Ns1]

to shake the cancer out of them.

rofl

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: rubix
to shake the cancer out of them.

LMAO!

 

[Alex]

about the tapping now, i flick it... hows that? same style?

 

[hardass]

they do it because they want attention from the non smokers,"hey look, Im cool, now its time to get cancer"

 

[Stiler]

some of you people have way to much time on your hands. I used to try and convert smokers , then i gave up, just wait til they are lying on the bed with lung cancer and they have a wife and kids sitting beside them and they wish they could go play ball with their kids.