I’m an occasional cigar smoker who doesn’t inhale the smoke - but I’ve read that nicotine can be absorbed through the mouth. To what degree is this true? If I smoke a cigar, but don’t inhale, am I receiving as much nicotine as I would in a cigarette? Less, more?
Search on Google for “cigar oral nicotine absorption”; you will find all the evidence you can handle.
To sum up; a single large cigar contains as much nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes, even the slimmer ones contain many times as much nicotine as a cigarette, and nicotine is more easily absorbed from cigar smoke than from cigarette smoke (according to the lung people, this has to do with pH).
Oral tissue absorbs nicotine just as well as lung tissue; there’s just less of it, so if you hold the smoke in your mouth, your exposure is probably greater.
I was wondering how much nicotine would be absorbed by the mouth alone, and how it might compare to cigarettes. It would appear that smoking even small cigars (like black & milds) and stuff causes exposure to more nicotine than cigarettes, but I’m not sure if the actual absorbtion rate allows more nicotine into the bloodstream than cigarettes. I’ll do that google search and look around.
Basically, my question would be, if anyone knows, as far as nicotine placed in the blood stream, how many cigarettes would a small black & mild type cigar equal?
I’ll see if I can find that sort of info on the web.