Puff

[tufguy]

What would you say? Suppose a person is smoking and he hasn't taken a puff for a while so what we have to say? "Take a puff otherwise the cigerrate will subside(the fire of cigerrate will subside)".

 

[bhaisahab]

You could say "Take a puff or the cigarette will go out".

 

[Rover_KE]

A cigar would go out, but a cigarette wouldn't.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Cigarettes go out if they are not smoked.

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

I have never smoked in my life and I'm definitely not going to. But I'm interested what "take a puff" means. Is it like "to inhale smoke" or what?

 

[GoesStation]

Cigarettes go out if they are not smoked.

They do in New York, thanks to regulations aimed at preventing fires.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I get most of my cigarettes outside of New York due to the expense. They all go out if not smoked.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I'm interested what "take a puff" means.

'The action of taking the smoke from a cigarette, pipe etc into your lungs.'── quoted from http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/puff_2

I am an asthmatic. May I say 'take a puff at a Salbutamol inhaler'?

 

[Tarheel]

Why not? (But it's usually take a puff OF something. The word "drag" is also used.)

 

[GoesStation]

I get most of my cigarettes outside of New York due to the expense. They all go out if not smoked.

It turns out I was a decade or so behind the times. New York was the first state to require fire-safe cigarettes , but now they all do.

 

[GoesStation]

I am an asthmatic. May I say 'take a puff at a Salbutamol inhaler'?

In fact, inhaler prescriptions direct the patient, e.g., "take one puff by mouth twice a day."

 

[Matthew Wai]

The prescriptions are in Chinese, so I wondered whether 'take a puff' applied to inhalers.

 

[Skrej]

To me, a 'puff' is an exhalation, not an inhalation.

When I 'puff', I'm pushing air out. I don't smoke cigarettes, but I do smoke a couple of cigars a year, as well as the occasional pipe and when I puff, I'm expelling smoke.

When I'm pulling air in, I refer to it as a 'draw' or a 'pull'.

 

[Matthew Wai]

The following is the photo GoesStation wanted to show me in the above deleted post.

 

[emsr2d2]

The "puff" in that instruction refers to what the inhaler does when you press the button. It "puffs" out an amount of medication and the user inhales it.