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Genuine question here. If you’re smoking, why waste any of it out the window when you can trap it in your car?

If it’s so your car doesn’t smell like smoke, that’s not real because your car will still smell like smoke. (Source: Worked in the car service business and saw a lot of smokers’ cars.)

Genuine question here. If you’re smoking, why waste any of it out the window when you can trap it in your car? If it’s so your car doesn’t smell like smoke, that’s not real because your car will still smell like smoke. (Source: Worked in the car service business and saw a lot of smokers’ cars.)

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Would it approach a level high enough to get (or add to) a nicotine fix?

At some point it would, but the level of available oxygen would drop well below being life sustaining at that point. Smoke from a cigarette isn't inhaled and kept in the lungs indefinitely. Doing so would lead to passing out from lack of oxygen. The concentration is high enough in a single drag to give the desired effect quickly and an exhale of the remaining smoke followed by breathing mostly normal air keeps you alive and conscious.

Since a fair amount of the nicotine in that drag was absorbed into the lung tissues and transferred to the blood stream, the remaining smoke is already below the concentration needed to get the fix. It is then exhaled and diluted greatly in a larger volume of air making the concentration very weak. This is why no one gets addicted to second-hand smoke. It's just not going to be enough and if it is made to be that high of a concentration again, the person would pass out and expire from suffocation.

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Ah. I get it. The majority of the nicotine is absorbed on the initial inhale. Didn’t know that. Thought the absorption was uniform with the uptake rate of oxygen, which it clearly must not be. Thanks.

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But wait I dont get it. If you clam bake in a car the only way I see to get the nicotine into the car would be through through the upholstery, but it's not enough.

So we should put nicotine patches on the dash board and the seats. Then everything eventually evens out.

There must be as mathematical equation for this phenomenon. I like science, my turtle isnt a turtle it's a tortoise.

The door on my car is not a door, it's a jar, ajar. My car actually said this too me, so I know empirically that this is a truism.

Most mechanics say their cars like camels, the smooth flavor will improve your gas mileage.

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It would be interesting to determine how much nicotine remains in the exhaled smoke versus the inhaled amount before absorption. There may be information on this somewhere, but I'm not sure if there has been any research or studies on this particular topic. If it is a high enough level, then perhaps a concentrator would allow for rebreathing the used smoke and getting more out of it. It might be more possible and practical for vaping though since you can condense the vapor back to a liquid and re-vaporize it. Vape enthusiasts would hate it though if they couldn't make mad clouds and waste their juice quickly doing so.

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Wow. That makes a lot of sense. And I bet there is data on this.

But vaping flat out makes you a faggot, so let's just not go there.