Learned Something New - Ligero & Nicotine

So a couple of days ago I was smoking a very nice cigar when about halfway thru, my stomach started doing flips. I had to put it out. Two hours later, I can barely eat and my wife says that I still look pretty green. I always try hard not to inhale any smoke, but occasionally do a retrohale to see what flavors may be present.

This cigar sickness has only happened once before, several months ago. I had to walk around the block for an hour before the feeling that I wanted to puke went away. I just assumed that I had inadvertently inhaled smoke without being aware.

Yesterday, I read an article about the difference between cigarettes and cigars. In that was a reference to the fact that cigar smoke has a higher pH than cigarette smoke which make the cigar smoke more unpleasant to inhale. It also makes the nicotine easily absorbed thru the mucous membranes of the mouth and nose.

Wow, I didn't know that. So I went to read about the cigar that I had smoked and only after reading three different descriptions of the content of the cigar did I find one that mentioned that it had a wrapper and filler of ligero tobacco which contains the highest content of nicotine of any leaf on the tobacco plant.

OK, so a relative newbie to cigars learns something new about cigars and also learns to avoid any stick with ligero leaves in it. I'm pretty sure that's what happened the first time around as well, although I did not make a note of the cigar that turned me green.

I thought some of the new members here would find this helpful if they are sensitive to nicotine.