1. Author: cacman | Date: Sun, 3/10/2013, 3:47AM EST | |
Inspired in part by Lefty's WOAM discussion, and a scene from a favorite movie "Smoke" featuring Harvey Keitel and William Hurt. Always thought it would be something cool to do. Instead I chose to weigh the nub and clip of the foot separately from the ash. http://cloisters-postscript.blogspot.com/2008/06/weight-of-smoke.html wrote: Paul Auster's film "Smoke" opens with a parable of time, action, and memory: the writer Paul Benjamin enters a Brooklyn tobacco shop and while buying his tins of Schimmelpennicks cuts through the banter of the loitering regulars with the story of Sir Walter Raleigh introduction of smoking to the court of Queen Elizabeth; finishing with Raleigh's proof that he could tell the weight of smoke:
Dennis You mean, weigh smoke?
Paul Benjamin Exactly. Weigh smoke.
Tommy You can't do that. It's like weighing air.
Paul I admit it's strange. Almost like weighing someone's soul. But Sir Walter was a clever guy. First, he took an unsmoked cigar and put it on a balance and weighed it. Then he lit up and smoked the cigar, carefully tapping the ashes into the balance pan. When he was finished, he put the butt into the pan with the ashes and weighed what was there. Then he subtracted that number from the original weight of the unsmoked cigar. The difference . . . was the weight of the smoke.
Arturo Fuente Work of Art MaduroTotal Weight: 10.37 grams Nub & Cut: 1.09 Ash: 1.85 The Weight of the Smoke: 7.43 grams (71.65%) |
2. Author: gae9jang2j | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 9:59AM EST | |
interesting |
3. Author: tyyler82 | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 10:08AM EST | |
looks delicious...however much it weighed. |
4. Author: stinger88 | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 10:15AM EST | |
Pretty cool. |
5. Author: leftyposthole | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 11:09AM EST | |
nice Carl, |
6. Author: Buckwheat | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 11:17AM EST | |
Wouldn't it actually be the combined weight of the smoke (i.e. fine particulate matter) and the weight of the moisture in the cigar? |
7. Author: ZRX1200 | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 11:54AM EST | |
^ killjoy |
8. Author: mikey1597 | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 12:12PM EST | |
Just smoke and enjoy! |
9. Author: Buckwheat | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 12:44PM EST | |
I also forgot about the tobacco beetle dung, string, virgin cigar roller sweat and other misc. chit. |
10. Author: t33bone | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 6:58PM EST | |
I don't have that much time on my hands for experimenting but pretty cool indeed.
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11. Author: Nicar | Date: Mon, 3/11/2013, 7:07PM EST | |
Willy??? |
12. Author: cacman | Date: Sun, 1/4/2015, 4:53AM EST | |
Topped for the hell of it… why not. |
13. Author: thurson | Date: Mon, 1/5/2015, 12:55PM EST | |
Take the WOAM, leave the scale. |
14. Author: cacman | Date: Tue, 9/15/2020, 12:16AM EST | |
An old experiment I did back in 2013. In remembrance of Lefty who no longer posts here, |
15. Author: ZRX1200 | Date: Tue, 9/15/2020, 12:43AM EST | |
I messaged him long ago, still unread.
Anyone heard from him?? |
16. Author: cacman | Date: Sun, 3/13/2022, 11:20PM EST | |
In remembrance of William Hurt's death, I look back on my favorite movies including Smoke and The Big Chill. This thread was inspired from the movie "Smokke" with William Hurt and Harvey Keital.
Measure the weight of smoke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_uXZZRpO-E |
17. Author: ZRX1200 | Date: Mon, 3/14/2022, 12:00AM EST | |
Man no Left OR Buckwheat here anymore… |
18. Author: Palama | Date: Mon, 3/14/2022, 3:30AM EST | |
Think I’ll smoke a WOAM sometime this week. |
19. Author: Mr. Jones | Date: Mon, 3/14/2022, 8:01PM EST | |
William Hurt just passed...
Great actor...
"History of Violence"
"Heyyyyy brohieeemmmm'..YOUUU caused me a lot of trouble brohieeemmmm' " |
20. Author: Sunoverbeach | Date: Fri, 7/29/2022, 8:52PM EST | |
I keep meaning to try this out for kicks |