Do cigarette / cigar smokers get tongue bite?

I've been smoking cigarettes since teenage years, and have never gotten tongue bite from it. at least nothing like I get from a pipe. The few cigars I've had if i remember right, bit a little, but still not as much as a pipe. Of course, I'm inexperienced with pipes and cigars, so I'm sure I'm to blame for how hard my pipes bite me.

hope that helps!

There are several factors involved with pipe tobacco that are not with the others. The pack of the tobacco, moisture content, sugar content, cut of the tobacco, etc.

You do raise a good point that I hadn’t considered.

Maybe it is back to asking mister owl....

Unless it's a combination of body chemistry and the method of smoking... Maybe the smoke is more concentrated when it comes from a pipe. Maybe the concentration of smoke, the heat of the smoke and body chemistry makes a toxic combination.

IMO it's the PG that's added to many pipe tobacco's steams up and causes tongue bite. Find a tobacco you like that left out goes crunchy dry in a day or two in a climate controlled house. 

The pg might have something to do with it too.

But from what I've read so say, body chemistry seems to be way down the list of contributing factors.

My experience with both cigars and pipes leads me to believe it is the deliver system. I think the pipe stem focuses the blast of smoke, so the heat that a cigar disperses into your whole mouth gets narrowly focused to a particular part of your tongue.

I had to learn to sip, which I don't do with cigars.

That is my theory anyway.

Its an easy thing to test. Cut up a cigar and put it in your pipe and smoke it.

I know when I smoke a cigar I can only get about half way though it because of the taste. Beyond this point the smoke tastes heavy and wet. I sometimes feel I have something on my tounge that needs to be removed. For me this ruins the taste and pleasure.
As for a cigarette it is gone be for any thing can be tasted.

There are hundreds of articles on the subject, but here is a good reference......

Tongue Bite

Thanks for the link which all makes sense. What doesn't make sense are the claims that certain people have a certain body chemistry which is prone to tongue bite where other's are immune. 

I wouldn't be so quick to take body chemistry out of the factor as to make one more or less suceptible to tongue bite.

One person can eat spicy foods, and hardly feel the heat, another tastes a greek pepper ring in a sandwich and it is a five alarm fire to them.

Because pipe tobacco is hard to come by in New Zealand, and the fact that a whole cigar is too much for me, I often cut up cuban cigars and smoke that in a pipe.

It tends to be a much faster burning and ashy-er smoke because it's drier.  I don't think I've gotten tongue bite from cigar tobacco in a pipe, but it can burn pretty hot and leaves your mouth feeling ashy into the next morning even after repeated brushing and rinsing.

I'm starting to come to the conclusion that it's mostly the steam, and also that virginias have a chemical component that don't agree with me since these cigars seem to mostly be made of burley.

Also, about 20 years ago I tried a pipe for the first time and didn't dry out the tobacco.  Burnt the roof of my mouth so bad that I had a blister on the roof of my mouth.  Only recently have I retried pipes, with better success due in part to YouTube instructional videos.  Slower cadence and drying tobacco helps a lot.

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