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Battery-powered Cigarettes?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-will-it-run-linux dept.

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."

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  1. uhh... by patrick.whitlock · · Score: 5, Informative

    don't they already have a nic. inhaler? called nicotrol, if im not mistaken

    1. Re:uhh... by Viceman001 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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.....

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  2. where do i get by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the marijuana flavored ones?

  3. Michael Shilling for RR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Is there a reason why michael is constantly posting stories from Roland Piquepaille?

    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?

  4. New moochers by OneBigWord · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, can I bum a AA?

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  5. Old news... by dfn_deux · · Score: 5, Informative

    RJ Reynolds developed a system similar to this in the late 80's and was shot down by the FDA. It seems that the FDA considered this a drug and drug delivery device and not a cigarette. Which of course means lots and lots and lots of expensive "drug" testing. However there is a japanese company that makes an electrical heating element device for normal cigarettes which supposedly "vaporizes" the nicotine for inhaltion without smoke, I wish I had a link. IIRC there was some mention of this in a PBS special many years back called "the search for a safe cigarette"...

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  6. Re:Bad idea by Iamthewalrus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

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  7. Re:I'll raise you two... by LGagnon · · Score: 5, Funny

    But just for the record, I think smoking is a vile nasty habbit.

    Nasty habbitses, stealing my precious lungs.