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Blow Smoke Rings By Jon Dunbar - Maxim, November 2000
http://www.maximonline.com/stupid_fun/articles/article_3791.html
Because it?s more dignified than belching the national anthem.
"As parlor tricks go, blowing smoke rings is about as good as it gets.
(There?s something a little homoerotic about swallowing swords.)
"Blowing smoke rings is a rite of passage," says George Brightman,
director of business development at Cigar Aficionado. "You get a great
feeling of satisfaction once you?ve mastered it." So let?s get
blowing!
Step 1: Choose your poison
Give your cigarettes to some needy high school kids and get yourself a
man-size smoke. "You need a big mouthful of smoke," explains
Brightman, "and you?re only going to get it from cigars or a pipe."
Continuing in the Bill Clinton vein, don?t inhale - just light up and
suck a large dollop of smoke into your mouth. Resist the urge to draw
the smoke into your lungs, or the trick won?t work.
Step 2: Blow it out your hole
Purse your lips as if you?re about to say the letter o (as in "Oh,
whoa, does Joe Piscopo blow"). Here?s the key: Quickly push the smoke
out with the back of your tongue, says Brightman, as you contract your
throat muscles to exhale a tiny puff of air. The overall experience
should feel like you?re trying to swallow a walnut whole.
Step 3: Get tricky
Once you?ve got the mechanics down (prepare to devote a lot of time to
practicing), several tricks easily follow. By varying the amount of
space between your lips, you can change the size of the rings. Flex
your throat muscles rapidly and you?ll shoot the rings out in
rapid-fire bursts. Combine the two techniques and you can execute what
Brightman calls "the coolest trick in my book: blowing a big ring and
shooting a smaller one through it."
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THE CIGAR SMOKER's FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
http://www.cigargroup.com/faq/#2.3
2.3 Smoke Rings
"The biggest factor in blowing good smoke rings is practice. With that
in mind, Try this technique.
First, you need a cigar with dense smoke, and a place with still air.
Don't waste your time trying to blow smoke rings in a breeze!
Draw a thick puff of smoke into your mouth. Hold it there and open
your mouth slowly. Make an "O" with your mouth, (maybe more of a
rounded "oh") - definitely not a pucker like a kiss. Curl the tip of
your tongue down, and pull your tongue all the way back.
Now, when blowing a ring, you're actually not exhaling. You're just
pushing out the smoke in your mouth with your tongue in short bursts -
like a piston, only in a relaxed way. It's actually a really gentle
motion. Push forward with your tongue, with perhaps a slight recoil at
the bottom.
Keep at it - it's like riding a bicycle... Once you "get it" you'll
wonder what the problem was!"
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Blow Smoke Rings
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/archive/index.php/t-19807.html
"Take a drag, then make your mouth 'O' shaped, press the tip of your
tongue against the bottom of your mouth, then slide it back and then
forward. It'll kind of act like a piston and push the smoke out of
your mouth. Hard to explain, you just have to spend some time and
figure it out. And whatever you're smoking should have dense smoke for
it to work, you can't blow smoke rings with most cheap cigars because
they're too mild."
"yup, you definitely need a good cigar to do it, not some vanilla
flavored POS from 7-11. take a nice long drag, make your lips into an
"o" shape. this is where im a little different. i like to push my
tongue back in my throat to get it out of they way, and then push the
smoke out of my mouth using my throat (my adams apple moving up and
down) and my tongue (still rolled up and pushed way back, kind of
moving up and down)."
"It's easy but takes some practice..... Take a drag, make the O shape
with your jaw open wide..... then close your jaw quickly about half
way... without blowing the smoke out, The smoke is forced out by your
jaw closing and the ring is formed by the O shape.... if you blow the
smoke out it messes up the ring."
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The Amazing Cigar: The Cigar Connoisseur's Secrets to Smoke Rings ...
http://www.enotalone.com/books/0966056728.html
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