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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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Drinking piss after beer won’t get you drunk. But the smoke exhaled or drifting off the cigarette still has active chemicals in it.

No smoker has ever been able to get a nicotine fix from exhaled smoke. It's about concentration of the nicotine and exhaled smoke is way too dilute to give you a fix. Good effort in your rebuttal, but it simply doesn't hold true.

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I think you just answered his question with your response. I think OP really just wanted an answer. I don't think he was trolling.

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Perhaps so. I took his post as more of an honest question wrapped in a shitpost than straight up trolling. I think you saw it the same. Either way he has an answer that is based on some real world experience.

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I didn't really know the answer either.

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Well that I understand. The smoke has to be concentrated then. Wouldn’t sealing up the car concentrate the smoke (and thus nicotine)? Would it approach a level high enough to get (or add to) a nicotine fix?

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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.