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I've recently given up smoking so, short of sucking the pene, to satisfy my oral fixation, I've been sucking on a filter. Randomly I had an unused one of a cigarillo I ripped up (long story). Anyway, after playing with it in my mouth for a bit, it fell apart and I found there's a load of tiny black/brown beads between 2 short cotton filters (on either end before where the tobacco would be). Kind of the same feel as a chip of graphite from a pencil.
I was just wondering why these are there? I can't find anything on the net about it...
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One of the hip filter ingredients in the 60's & 70's was "activated charcoal". Hey, it worked to purify water and other things so why not in a filter? Kind of a catalytic converter for the black-lung crowd that I think is just so much hype.
I'm in agreement with sofatater, here.
Congratulations on quitting - hope you can stay that way. As someone who has spent the last 40 years (WOW, is that a big number) quitting smoking, I'd love to offer one small piece of advice: The ultimate self-deceit is when you tell yourself that you can have "just one" and you can "handle it". That one will open the door and, though it may be many months later, you'll have another with the same unfortunate reasoning and the next one will come sooner.
Never (and I mean NEVER) light one again. This is the only way to be well and truly quit.
I have an aunt in her mid-70's who finally quit after the onset of congestive heart failure. She worked admirably at improving her health and can be said to be "recovered". Nevertheless, she has arranged with her doctors to tell her when she only has six months to live - she'll take up smoking again then.
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