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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."
one of the great pleasures of being a smoker is pissing off the non-smokers. I guess I'll have to eat more beans.
oh, and first post or something.
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Are there any interactions with the nicotine patch and gum that I use?
Is it ok to smoke regular cigarettes and this at the same time?
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the marijuana flavored ones?
Dude, can I bum a AA?
What if that mime really is trapped in a box?
Maybe Michael IS RR.......
Oh, and the Walrus is Paul.
"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating. And in fourteen days, I had lost exactly two weeks. Joe E. Lewis
That I'm gonna take up smoking again!
Don't get me wrong; I'm not addicted to nicotine. I've quit hundreds of times!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I guess there's no real substitute for the voice of experience, is there?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
As you know, nature abhors a vacuum...
yea i stole your sig- whats the big deal, it sucked anyway.
That's ok, most smokers look like crackheads if they haven't had a cigarrette in a while.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
..."it tasted like sh*t. Literally!"...
Literally?! And who was qualified to make that evaluation? Flys? Puppies? Oh, of course - tobacco executives.
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.
And no, this is not a troll...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
But just for the record, I think smoking is a vile nasty habbit.
Nasty habbitses, stealing my precious lungs.