# what's to smoking....?To inhale , do you just swallow the smoke??

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-to-smoking-to-inhale-do-you-just-swallow-the-smoke/102061 "2002-04-05T20:33:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![shawny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@shawny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shawny)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-to-smoking-to-inhale-do-you-just-swallow-the-smoke/102061/1 "2002-04-05T20:33:55Z")

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how do you inhale smoke?

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-to-smoking-to-inhale-do-you-just-swallow-the-smoke/102061/2 "2002-04-05T20:36:56Z")

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Breathe in, breathe out. As opposed to just holding it in your mouth.

Or, depending on your substance of choice, breathe in, hold it, talk like a duck, exhale befor choking. Repeat.

What’s to eating, do you just inhale the food.

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**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-to-smoking-to-inhale-do-you-just-swallow-the-smoke/102061/3 "2002-04-05T20:37:27Z")

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[insert scathing sarcasm here]

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-to-smoking-to-inhale-do-you-just-swallow-the-smoke/102061/4 "2002-04-05T20:38:40Z")

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No, you don’t swallow it, you inhale it into your lungs. Of course, virgin lungs really don’t like you to force smoke into them so they try to fight it off by making you choke the first several dozen times you try. It takes lots of practice. By the time you have mastered the art though, you should be well on your way to addiction, declining health, and an early death.

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**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-to-smoking-to-inhale-do-you-just-swallow-the-smoke/102061/5 "2002-04-05T20:40:52Z")

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Hey Shawny, how old are you?

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**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-to-smoking-to-inhale-do-you-just-swallow-the-smoke/102061/6 "2002-04-05T21:02:55Z")

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Goodbye to this thread, too.  
Jill