Do clove cigs (class B cigs) have nicotine in them? I know that some are mixed with tobacco, and those would, but the brand I smoke has no tobacco in them. Would they still have nicotine? It doesn’t feel like they do when I smoke them.
Some of you just love to say “run a search” or “read a book”. I would like to say at this point that I have run a search on the web about this, and I have read all the articles that I have found on this (not many).
The answer I seek wasn’t there. I can find no ingredient list for the many varieties of cloves sold.
IIRC, cloves are 60% tobacco and 40% crushed cloves; but I could be mistaken. Nevertheless, they do contain tobacco, and therefore, nicotine. Since you say your brand has no tobacco (are you sure about that?), I don’t know. But I think to be a “classed” cigarette, it needs the weed.
Uh… You don’t have a Djarum Special on you, do you?
“Typically they’re a 40-60 mix of shredded clove buds and tobacco.” and “(blended clove/tobacco cigarettes) produce more tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide than ordinary cigarettes.” From this I deduce that cloves have more nicotine per length of cigarette than tobacco. It’s possible that there are other nicotine-containing substances in the blended ciggies, but given that they make up less than 1% of the cigarette, they’d have to contain a lot of nicotine by volume to make up for the fact that a clove cigarette has only 60% of the tobacco of a traditional one.
From what I’ve heard, most clove cigarettes have substantially more nicotine than regular cigarettes; one figure I read was up to five times as much. I pointed this out to a friend that thought she was being health minded because she only smoked half as many clove cigarettes a day as when she smoked regular cigarettes. Her comment was “well, I guess that explains why my lips go numb whenever I smoke one.”
If you are not the one smoking them, they are vile and the smell can quickly fill a room. If you do smoke clove cigs, please do it outside and downwind from me. Thank you.
You know that you can get cloves in a bottle, right. I love the smell of cloves. I toss a few into my breadbox. Smash 'em first. Also, you can steep some in hot water and put it in the counter. Those dried oranges studded with cloves are really cool.
Maybe you can tell that I’m trying to steer people away from tobacco. Of any kind. Be glad you’re not being subjected to the “That Old Dude” lecture. Teenagers around here run when they see me coming.
I just hate to see young people glamorize a filthy and deadly addiction. It was that stupid movie, Pulp Fiction, that started it. Wasn’t it?
DON’T SMOKE.
Lecture over.
Peace,
mangeorge (Call me “Leather Lungs”)
Actually, cloves have a mild anesthetic effect. Try chewing on a clove from your spice rack and see what happens.
It’s amazing how different the ones that have tobacco in them are from the ones that don’t. I absolutely despise the ones with tobacco. I can’t inhale them–they make my lungs HURT. The ones without are quite nice, though. But you can’t offer them to someone who is used to tobacco, because they’ll think they’re the nastiest things on earth. They’re used to that harshness, and find the lack of it to taste somewhat diluted and weak.
I used to smoke a pack of cloves or so during every quarter break, just as a treat for being one step closer to graduation. No more, though. And this time, since I’ll be celebrating both the end of the quarter and taking my LSAT, I’m really going to miss that.
