Smoking and Breathing
A smoker may create rings by taking smoke into his mouth and expelling it with a tongue flick, by closing the jaw, tapping the cheek, or producing a sudden burst of air with the lungs and throat. The smoker may also use any of those methods to blow into a cloud of smoke outside his mouth.
A trick often performed in conjunction with mouth-blown smoke rings is the French inhale.
It is also possible to create a vapour ring by using the same techniques on a cold day with only one's breath.
Read more about this topic: Smoke Ring
Famous quotes containing the words smoking and, smoking and/or breathing:
“I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb’s admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist’s.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“half-way up the hill, I see the Past
Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,—
A city in the twilight dim and vast,
With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights,—
And hear above me on the autumnal blast
The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“Nobody, but nobody, is going to stop breathing on me.”
—Virginia Apgar (1909–1974)