Gotta Blow Hard
I usually smoke at home or in the office. My old setup for getting smoke out was to take a rectangular piece of plexiglass and have a cutout in it to fit my little 6 inch desk fan and use it as a window fan. I got one in my office, and one at home. This works, but still fills the room with the smell of burnt tobacco.<br /><br />Just got the smokebuddy and decided to have a long 2hr smoke. What I had was a Gurkha 7x52 cigar. Here's the pros & cons:<br /><br />PROS:<br />- lightweight<br />- small<br />- gets rid of most of the burnt tobacco odor.<br />- comes with caps. I'd imagine after using it many times, it'd start to smell, the caps will keep the smells contained.<br /><br />CONS:<br />- you need to use your face to make a tight seal on the smokebuddy, or else smoke will leak.<br />- gotta blow hard, as if you are trying to inflate an air mattress with your lungs.<br />- I got really lightheaded after taking a few exhales through the smokebuddy, not even 1/3 of the way into my smoke, and I was quite nauseous from blowing so hard on the smokebuddy to get it to filter out all the smoke.<br />- filter can not be replaced. once it's clogged, you need to buy a new one.<br /><br /> Thing for the company to improve on:<br />- have an o-ring/gasket on the exhale end aka where you put you mouth in end<br />- have a looser pack of filter material, can be a thicker pack, just not as tight<br />- change the product so it'll take exchangeable cartridges, I'd rather small packs of filters than $20 smokebuddies one after another.<br />=======<br />Overall, for the price, it's worth the buy. I'll still be using my fan setup because the smokebuddy does not take care of all the smoke, and the occasional leak from not shoving my face against it. Blowing through this thing, is really annoying, and I stopped using it all together half-way into my 7&#34; cigar. I wasn't getting lightheaded from the nicotine, but instead from the smoke filter. It works, but needs improvements.
Rating: 3 stars