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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Smokers enjoy the taste?
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 14:19:33 EDT
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> Secondly, what percentage of the smoke from a cigarette actually touches
> the smoker's tongue? When I smoked, it was very rare that I smoked more

I seem to remember reading that the sense of taste actually has little
to do with the taste buds. The taste buds can only distinguish between
sweet, sour, bitter, etc.. Most of the subtlies of taste are caused by
molecules of the food you eat wandering up into your olfactory organs
from your mouth. Therefore cigarette smoke might have a distinctive
'taste' while it is going through your nasal passages.