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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."
Roland is just using slashdot to direct traffic to his shitty weblog, and now he even has his own domain!
How much is michael getting on the side to plug this guy?
I built a similar device while in Design School, but due to the size of available components, it looked more like an arts marker and less like the cigarrete. And it was a HUGHE SUCCES with the average smokers at school. Where, of course, the average smoker smoked ten times more hash oil and plain skunk than nicotine. The trick was keeping it just above 80C but below 90C, that way you get most of the alcaloid, but none of the easily-recognized-by-autorithies smell.
The taxes that are imposed on the Tobacco which are used to create those nasty smoke sticks.
I used to smoke, and I miss it.
Seriously. It was nice and relaxing. The only reason I stopped was because, obviously, it's not that great for you.
But at least something like this makes it so that if you want the effect of nicotine, you don't have to shell out $40 for a pack of nicotine gum.
Yeah, nicotine isn't GOOD for you, but neither is alcohol and people still do that. At least this isn't nearly as bad as inhaling all that tar and smoke!
There will always be a passive effect... you exhale the nicotine, surely someone near you would inhale a part of it, but still, better than cigarettes themselves.
Good improvement!
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
Anything which reduces the health barrier to nicotine addiction is a bad thing. Period.
That's a terrible position to take, unless you think that smokers somehow morally "deserve" the health problems they end up with. Obviously, if we could reduce the health effects of nicotine addiction to insignficant levels, then smoking wouldn't have to be a big deal. Even reducing them slightly might mean that those who are addicted have a better chance of living longer and more happy lives.
How on earth could that be a bad thing?
Help prevent the slashdot effect; stop reading the articles.
Yeah, it's nicotrol. I tried it when I quit. They were okay, but I think the added 'heating' would give a much better effect, simulating hot smoke. Mmmm, makes me want one now.....
"It's not the despair, I can take the despair, it's the hope that's killing me!"
I'm a smoker of Eclipse cigarettes. While I've quit and started smoking twice in my life, I've found recently that these cigarettes do not inhibit my life at all. They are essentially smokeless cigarettes, the smoke that is produced is odorless (smells like burnt paper) and doesn't come off in thick rings from the end of the cigarette as I smoke it.
Generally speaking, innovations made in producing a 'healthy cigarette' usually involve a lot of cost, but these cigarettes are usually sold at the same price as Marborlo Lights. They also come in menthol.
With 80% less additives, I think I'll stick to these unless the new battery-powered cigarettes actually end up cheaper.
If you're talking about plain old vaporizers, then that's different. If you're thinking of just extracting a few cannabinoids into a filter, and allowing people to inhale them, that's more like what the article is on.
For a while, the cigarette companies experiemnted trying to make a "safer" cigarette. I saw a special on TV about it, and the one I remember involved painting pretty much pure nicotine on the inside of a glass tube along with glycerine or something else that produced harmless smoke when burned. The smoker then would play a lighter underneath the glass tube while inhaling, giving him harmless, high dosages of nicotine. The only real problem with this was you looked like a crackhead.
I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood
I smoke. I have NO DOUBTS that it's bad for me and could cause an early demise. Anybody 25 and older has known this their whole lives. Same goes for eating really fatty foods, not excercising, and drinking too much. There is no secret here, and I have never lamented that the tobacco companies have 'done this' to me. I've done it to myself, and I CHOOSE to continue. I know many people who have quit...tough as it is it can be done IF YOU WANT TO. I don't, so I smoke. So yes, in fact, I think I DESERVE what I get as a result. There is NO excuse for me to not quit, except that I don't want to, and there is NO excuse for anybody else who is still smoking. We're doing it to ourselves. I know it's addicting, but that just means it's more difficult to quit, not impossible. I don't feel sorry for myself or anybody else who smokes, and neither should you. I, and many others, would not like it if the gov't forced alcohol companies to start selling alcohol-free products only...drinkers WANT it, so they should have it. I WANT my nicotine, and if I choose to buy smokeless cigarettes so that I won't be inconvenienced by a desire to smoke, that's a terrific option. If I CHOOSE to smoke regular cigarettes outside in the snow, then I have to live with my choice. I think it sucks, but then I think GW sucks, and look where we are.