I'd never been in such cold climate - even growing up in tahoe... Stepping into the cold air and feeling your nose hairs crystalize is a weird feeling - I can imagine huffing a cigarette in that cold... but I suppose ? the cigarette may warm the air slightly?
It was -40 F on typical days in the winter months - and there were Inuits who would stand outside the back of the old hospital and smoke in minus 40 degrees. and looking like any place else outside. There are a lot of heavy smokers in that area it seems.
(The hospital had a drunk tank for the alcohol problem in the tribes, where they dont arrest you for being drunk, they throw you in the tank and one has to deal with tribal council for such matters. It was important because very often people got too drunk in the cold and pass out on way home and freeze to death.)
Reminds me how often I used to stand or sit outside in (Québec's) winter completely miserable with fingers hurting just for some nicotine, day or night. Good times. One of my favorite parts of having quit (on top of health, stink and money of course) was not leaving my living room repeatedly to go freeze for 5 minutes at a time. So satisfying.
FWIW, I recall the smoke didn't really have a warming effect. After all, I reckon your throat should still be around body temperature even if it's <-30C outside (for the record, -40C is -40F, -30C is -22F), the mild warmth from the smoke wasn't really perceptible.
The tribal internment and rape and trafficking and fucking of tribal minors in the fields around their "schools" of pedophiles that rape and murder kids.
Yes, this is a real thing. They actually did this and covered it up with the help of.... (The reason the purple color is associated iwth royalty has nothing to do with the crushing of sea snails to create purple dyes for garments.)
I'd never been in such cold climate - even growing up in tahoe... Stepping into the cold air and feeling your nose hairs crystalize is a weird feeling - I can imagine huffing a cigarette in that cold... but I suppose ? the cigarette may warm the air slightly?
It was -40 F on typical days in the winter months - and there were Inuits who would stand outside the back of the old hospital and smoke in minus 40 degrees. and looking like any place else outside. There are a lot of heavy smokers in that area it seems.
(The hospital had a drunk tank for the alcohol problem in the tribes, where they dont arrest you for being drunk, they throw you in the tank and one has to deal with tribal council for such matters. It was important because very often people got too drunk in the cold and pass out on way home and freeze to death.)