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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."
Please show me where I said something about a law? All I said is "Smoke bothers me." And why don't you take your own advice? If it bothers you, don't read my comments.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Nicotine is a poison all on its own, so I would think it has its own limiting factor built in.
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You can make a really nice insecticide for household plants by steeping some tobacco in water. Just thinking about that makes me not want to breathe cigarette smoke ever again.
You can kill yourself by drinking 5 gallons of (or less) of water as well. The dose makes the poison, tylenol is at least as deadly as pure uranium when eaten. (#1 medical cause of liver failure as well) Nicotine is about as "dangerous" as caffeine is, the problems stem from the delivery device.
Quality smokeless tobacco products do not have the high risks that smoking cigarettes do. Of course, the safety NAZI's don't want you to know that. They also don't want you to know that they pull a number out of the air nearly at random to assess second hand smoke impact - or that a glass of whisky sitting on the table at room temperature is releasing more toxins into the air than a person chain smoking
I'm perfectly willing to say cigarettes are dangerous to the end user, if everyone who smokes switched to smokeless tobacco like copenhagen or ariva we would see deaths from tobacco use drop to less than 9K a year (and probably lower than that). A nicotine inhaler would be a great delivery device, a transmucal sucker would be another great delivery device... The problem is with the regulation, they don't wamt people to have safer alternatives or to know the truth. The people in charge of health policy are largely zealots like Coop. He actually went on record as saying smokeless tobacco was *more dangerous* than smoking. What can I say? Americans are in love with prohibition... They've tried it with booze, opioids, cocaine, MDMA, LSD... We've all seen what a wonderful success releasing fraud as truth about drugs has done for usage. The war on drugs is clearly winning with those tactics by anyones sane measure...>sarcasm off
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