Ever had this happen?

[orca99usa]

I was smoking a Carlos Torano Signature last night and had something very odd happen. About halfway through the stick, I couldn't draw any smoke through it. I didn't get the sense that the stick was plugged (I was able to draw air, just not smoke). When I blew back through it nothing happened. I saw no smoke coming out of the wrapper in odd places either. The stick wasn't broken, at least that I could tell. It smoked fine until I hit about the midway point. After about ten minutes of trying several things to make it smokeable, I finally tossed it. Maybe it was plugged, just not completely.

[Old Sailor]

Almost sounds like it went out.

[orca99usa]

That was the funny thing. The burn was intact the whole time. It was nighttime and I was outside, and I could clearly see a strong red glow from the tip of the cigar.

[Waynegro1]

Originally Posted by Old Sailor

Almost sounds like it went out.

(that's the first thing I thought)

[borndead1]

It has happened to me many times. The conclusion I've come to is that the air flow is too free. Not enough "suction pressure" pulling the heat to combust the tobacco and create smoke. If it happens again, try clamping down on the head of the cigar with your teeth. It helps a little.

[ResIpsa]

Originally Posted by borndead1

It has happened to me many times. The conclusion I've come to is that the air flow is too free. Not enough "suction pressure" pulling the heat to combust the tobacco and create smoke. If it happens again, try clamping down on the head of the cigar with your teeth. It helps a little.

Being a non science guy somebody is going to have to help me understand this one. Combustion by definition is the act of something burning. If the tobacco is not "combusting" as you say, then by definition it's not burning, then by defintion the cigar is out as Old Sailor said. If there's not enough heat for complete combustion isn't that smoldering???
And anyone who's been around a smoldering campfire knows that creates more smoke, not less.

[xxwaldoxx]

I've had this happen in the past but only if I've used a draw tool of some sort. In my case it was due to the tunnel that the draw tool made. I would guess that the air moving through the cigar was taking the path of least resistance and not moving through the combusting tobacco.

When I would puff on the cigar the end of the cigar wouldn't have much of a glow to it, or at least not as much as it would have without the hole.

I suppose its possible that a similar situation was going on with your cigar. Perhaps the roller left an accidental hollow spot in the cigar while filling it and everything was just fine until you burned up to it.

Not sure really, just offering a suggestion.

[GoodFella]

i have has this happen before. there is still a cherry but u have to try real hard to keep the cigar lit and pull smoke. i have found that it will be one tunnel or a 2-3 real small ones that are hard to see.

[jonharky3]

I've had a bolivar churchill that had a good size hole throughout the cigar the air came right through the cigar but wasn't touching the heated part to actually get smoke. It was a free cigar from a friend so I wasn't to mad about it I was more mad that I had a smoke and then I didn't have a smoke

[borndead1]

Originally Posted by ResIpsa

Being a non science guy somebody is going to have to help me understand this one. Combustion by definition is the act of something burning. If the tobacco is not "combusting" as you say, then by definition it's not burning, then by defintion the cigar is out as Old Sailor said. If there's not enough heat for complete combustion isn't that smoldering???
And anyone who's been around a smoldering campfire knows that creates more smoke, not less.

Ok...what the OP is speaking of has happened to me with cigars that have a very loose draw. The cigar is burning, you can see the cherry, but drawing through it produces very little to no smoke. I guess "suction pressure" was a poor phrase. I'm sure there is some scientific phrase for it. There has to be some kind of "pressure" behind your draw to burn the tobacco and give you a mouthful of smoke.

[Narbs]

Funny, I had this happen to me last night about 3/4 in on a Tat Black. After some gentle massaging all was good again.

[kugie]

This just happened with my first TAT Black. It seemed to not want to stay lit either. It was about half way through and no smoke I let it rest and re lit it. It went out again I relit it and a third.I was so determined to smoke it that I ended up beating the crap out of it.


I will have another.