If you want to encourage your child to start smoking, smoke rings are great ways to start. While much has been written about how to blow smoke rings, the truth of the matter simply implies that to make a smoke ring, you will need to smoke a lot of cigarettes or cigars and practice. You might remember your uncle Bob blowing smoke rings at the yearly family outing and you might remember his tongue in cheek comments that it took real men to do so. While it is hard to explain in words how to blow smoke rings, it is possible to get the generally gist of the practice.

The first step to successfully blow smoke rings is to light a cigarette or cigar and get a good burn going. The goal is to have a lot of smoke with which to make the smoke rings. This cannot be accomplished if you only inhale a bit of smoke or if you are doing so in a shallow fashion. Next, you will need to take in a lot of smoke into your mouth but not inhale it! Fashion your mouth into the letter”o” or the number “0’ and then gently push out the smoke with a short puff. The mistake that many beginners make when attempting to blow smoke rings is to exhale while doing so. This will create too much force behind the smoke that is being expelled, thus dispersing it rather than focusing it.

Furthermore, the position of your tongue factors in greatly when learning how to blow a smoke ring. Ideally, your tongue should be curled in the midst of the 0 and aid the puff by gently pushing the smoke out without moving much. While these smoke rings may take a little while to be perfected, pretty much anyone can learn how to do it. Some claim that cigar smoke rings are more impressive than cigarette smoke rings, but this might simply be due to the fact that the smoker was able to get more smoke into her or his mouth in the first place.

Of course, if you want to teach your child how to make smoke rings without encouraging them to get in line for future cancer treatments, you will have to think a bit harder and look for inhalants that are safe. Some moms are known to have fun letting hot soup cool by inviting their kids or gently inhale some of the steam and then pushing it out as explained above. While this will not create a highly visible bona fide smoke ring, it is a healthier way of engaging in this art form while waiting for your soup to cool. There are some gadgets on the market that make smoke rings with the help of a substance that uses a non toxic fuel, but it is hard to understand how this gadget could be of interest to a child for longer than five or ten minutes.