0 items ($0.00)
Please wait...
ARTICLESJan 28, 2011
Jul 29, 2010
May 2013 (8)
April 2013 (7)
March 2013 (7)
February 2013 (8)
January 2013 (6)
December 2012 (8)
November 2012 (10)
October 2012 (12)
September 2012 (7)
August 2012 (6)
July 2012 (12)
June 2012 (14)
May 2012 (13)
April 2012 (12)
March 2012 (12)
February 2012 (13)
January 2012 (13)
December 2011 (11)
November 2011 (11)
October 2011 (12)
September 2011 (8)
August 2011 (16)
July 2011 (20)
June 2011 (14)
May 2011 (19)
April 2011 (20)
March 2011 (11)
February 2011 (24)
January 2011 (22)
December 2010 (31)
November 2010 (5)
October 2010 (18)
September 2010 (10)
August 2010 (16)
July 2010 (15)
One of the more pungent varieties of smoking-related halitosis is cigar breath, which many people may be able to recognize immediately. Recently, a group of chemists identified the chemicals that give this species of bad breath its particular funk.
Tobacco can stain your teeth and cause bad breath, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns. Like pipe smoking, puffing on a cigar involves holding hot smoke in the mouth for extended periods of time, leaving a strong stench on the tongue and teeth.
To determine which compounds comprise that odor, researchers with the William Wrigley, Jr. Company did what you might expect - they smoked cigars in the name of science.
Afterwards, they took tongue scrapings and passed them through a gas chromatography device, which separated samples into their basic compounds. Then researchers sniffed each one in turn.
They found that cigar breath seems to come from the combination of three smelly molecules. In the lab, 2-ethylpyrrole smelled "musty," 2,3-dimethylpyrazine had a meaty or savory smell, and 2-ethylpyridine had a "nutty stench" to it.
The chemists added that the presence of these molecules is logical, since scientists have known that each can be created through the drying or combustion of tobacco. Eliminating these compounds may be as simple as rinsing the mouth with a specialty breath freshener.
