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Battery-powered Cigarettes?
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to Ananova, a Swiss company has developed a totally new type of smoke-free cigarette. You will be able to use it in non-smoking restaurants, and even in airplanes -- if you care for nicotine. But the PRAVDA, from Russia, adds that the product is far from perfect. It looks like a cigarette, it's used as a cigarette, but it's not a cigarette at all. Each pseudo-cigarette consists of a replaceable 'filter' containing the nicotine, and a heating element working on a battery, recharged by the 'pack' of cigarettes. The company, NicStic, says its product is good for smokers because it doesn't contain any tar, and for non-smokers, because there is obviously not passive smoking effect. It plans to introduce the product in Germany in about a year for a price similar as normal cigarettes. This overview contains more details about this pseudo-cigarette which might be sold in the U.S. in the near future."
... cigarettes are great, if you can get over the fact that they taste like hot snake piss.
Speaking about medical problems, what is the worst thing in your opinion: smoking 5 cigarettes a day when you feel "not so good" or comitting suicide at the end of a long depression that could have been avoided with a few cigarettes?
Thank you very much, but I'll keep my cigarettes...
Yeah, until the five becomes ten. And the ten becomes twenty.
And then you realize that you've shaky hands, bad breath, a fucked up lung and black teeth. Not to mention that people will stay a mile away from you.
That depression is only made worse by your dependance on Nicotine.
You'd probably have never gotten into that depression in the first place if you had not started smoking.
But maybe you'd do us all a favour - you'd kill yourself and in the process cause fewer health problems to those around you. Sheesh.
I hope you very quickly manage to kill whichever canidate you don't like, wouldn't want someone elses choices to effect you!
Oh, I'll be the first one to say that quitting was total hell.
I had never tried to quit before I did quit.
The first time I tried to quit, I quit.
I know people that constantly say, "I'm trying to quit" as they puff on one.
Right.
I used the patches to help me quit, and for about a year I was miserable. It was hell.
I replaced cigarettes with soda waters. Everytime I felt the urge, which was about every ten minutes, I drank a soda water instead.
I went from 147lbs to 210lbs in one year. I'm still trying to knock that down. I'm disabled, having a broken back made it impossible for me to exercise to loose the weight, now I'm recovering from back surgery and still I can't exercise, yet. But I did manage to get down to around 190lbs. I still have about 20lbs to go before I am satisfied.
Smoking was the worst thing I ever took up, quitting was the hardest thing I ever did. But I have no regrets for quitting, it was the best thing I ever did.
I hate people that smoke that think they have the right to make me inhale their poison along with them or have to smell their stench.
And to another poster, I've complained to the stores about the butts everywhere, they moved the ashtrays away from the door and the smokers just threw them on the ground, they move them closer to the door and a FEW will put them in the ashtrays but MOST still throw them on the ground.
And people drive down the road and flip them out the windows into my yard. How considerate of them, eh? Real nice of you to make a disabled man in a full torso cast that can not bend over, have to get on his knees and pick up their stinking, filthy, ugly cigarette butts from his yard. You can't imagine how difficult and painful it is to drop to your knees and get back up again when you're completely immobilized in a medevil torture device...
Oh, and thanks a lot, all you smokers, I appreciate all the unnecessary pain and trouble you put me through as I try to keep my yard looking decent...
Am I an asshole about smoking? You bet I am..
And proud of it...