Place a cigarette under your nose and inhale. This is a sign of staleness.Īnother indicator of stale cigarettes is the smell. Roll the cigarette between your fingers, and see if any tobacco pours out of the end. If you don’t want to risk smoking a stale cigarette, you can also look for visual signs of staleness. The most obvious way is to smoke one and look out for any unpleasant flavor or difficulty with airflow. There are a few different ways to tell if your cigarettes are stale. Once opened and exposed to air, commercial cigarettes usually last about two days before going stale. Stale cigarettes usually taste very unpleasant, menthol cigarettes even more so. When a cigarette loses its moisture and becomes stale, the tobacco tastes very different. Fluctuations in humidity can also change the burn pattern of the cigarette wrapper, possibly making them burn faster. When cigarettes are exposed to air, moisture is allowed to escape from the resins and oils used during manufacturing. What happens when cigarettes go bad?Ĭigarettes don’t really expire, so much as they become extremely stale. While smoking expired cigarettes isn’t really any worse for you than smoking new ones, time and oxygen exposure can negatively impact the flavor and freshness of your cigarettes. However, just because cigarettes don’t contain an expiration date on their packaging doesn’t mean they’ll never go bad. Obviously, smoking cigarettes has inherent risks that can not be negated by smoking within their “best by” period.
In fact, the World Health Organization recommends that tobacco packaging should not be allowed to list an expiration date because this leads consumers to believe that it’s “safe” to consume the product before the expiry date. No, cigarettes do not have an expiration date printed on them. Do cigarettes actually expire? How long will my cigarettes be good for? What will happen if I smoke an expired cigarette? We’ll answer all of these questions today, plus tell you how to decipher production codes to find out when your cigarettes were manufactured. If you’ve ever come across an old pack of cigarettes with one or two left in the carton, you’ve probably wondered this at some point.
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