Quote Originally Posted by craig View Post
The salivation is natural as one's tongue is both picking up food-like signals (sweet tobacco taste) and one's mouth linings are being irritated by the smoke.

Now the usual unconscious reaction is to swallow, or wash it down with whatever you're drinking. The consequence of those actions is that you've now just given yourself the same elevated odds of throat, esophageal, and stomach cancer as a cigarette smoker. Thus, if I'm outside, or smoking alone at home, I deliberately choose to spit, and use a spittoon.

(Washing down the smoke with alcohol has a multiplicative effect on the odds, but sometimes you just have to take those odds )
I agree 100% and I try to always use a spitoon...