The Electric, Smokeless Cigarette
Crown 7, in an effort to cash in on us overtaxed cancer-stick wielding suckers, is offering electric cigars, cigarettes, and pipes that the company claims will allow you to smoke in normally smoke-free areas. A filter cartridge is inserted in the device and a rechargeable lithium-ion battery (just like in your cell phone or laptop) activates a smoke-like water vapor that fills your lungs with nicotine and an earthy (read: tastes vaguely like dirt) tobacco flavor.
While the idea sounds pretty good on paper, in practice the whole thing sort of falls apart. First, we doubt you'll actually get away with smoking this thing in restaurants, on trains, or any other place where smoking is banned. Second, the price is astronomical, even for us smokers who are pretty used to being taken advantage of. The cigar unit runs $65, the cigarette $100, and the pipe $150. Cartridges run $10 for a pack of five. Third, we're not sure how comfortable we are sucking on anything that needs to be charged like a cell phone.
From Sci Fi Tech
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsBobSep 22nd 2007 11:34AM
To all concerned.
You better wise up to whats going on out in our buisness community. Does smoking cause cancer? According to our friend Jossy and every thing I have read no. Does it cause Emphysema ? Yes. This is the risk when smoking. The smoker has made a choice. It's theres to live with.
As far as cancer causing agents being pumped into our atmosphere, it's happening every day at an alarming rate. I'm sure very few people are aware of just how dangerous oil refineries are. Coal burning power houses? you bet there bad to, how about chemical refineries ( these would be the guys making your house old cleaners, cassete tapes,LASER INK, etc..) I wouldn't live within 30 miles of them. I know this for fact. I help build and maintain these places. I know first hand how many men have died from contact with these agents. And every one goes along blissfully unaware of the danger there in. blaming cigarrette smoke. how convienient.
MarcSep 22nd 2007 11:49AM
I couldn't agree more...
Exactly, Jossy
Exactly, Bob
Exactly, Kathy
Joe BlowSep 22nd 2007 2:30PM
Why don't you just shove it up your ass.....makes as much sence as sucking on the thing
Dr. HightowerSep 22nd 2007 3:11PM
If you started smoking well before adulthood, say 12-14 or earlier, you are certainly more at risk for any type of chronic lung affliction and, or lung cancer. I have done human dissection in college and I have seen the blackened lungs of the smokers and felt the graniniesness (sp?) of the lung tissues - rather discusting. However, those which were non- smoking cadavers had lungs that were light grey to dark grey indicating that if you live in a city, especially a big metropolitian area, your lungs are at risk whether or not you smoke.
Unfortunately, in todays life-style you are at risk depending on your genetic patterns you inherited from your ancestors. Look around yourself, you are surrounded by pollutants and devices that can affect your health. The computer screen you are currently looking into, your television screen, the electrical devices that power them, the refrigerator, the vacuum, the florescent lighting, the car emissions, and on and on. Almost everything modern life provides is a hazard to your health from air, electrical, water, and food pollution.
Get rid of it all, move to the country, grow your own food, raise your own meat, read good books - you could live to 100 and be bored to death.
JimSep 22nd 2007 4:19PM
Jossy's note reminded me that cigarette smoking at least has a calming effect on the smoker.
Teri DavisSep 22nd 2007 6:01PM
I used to smoke and stopped without a problem. I smoked off and on and never really felt addicted to it, when I wanted to smoke I did and when I didn't, I stopped. Usually I would smoke if I was dating/married to a smoker but when they quit or we split up, I'd stop with no problems for years at a time. I finally quit for good 12 years ago because I just didn't want to buy into the health problems that came with my little vice!
BruceSep 22nd 2007 6:51PM
I like the phrase overtaxed cancer-stick wielding suckers,,,been smoke free for 13 weeks,after smoking 30 some years,,,accupuncture works,let those tobacco companys find a different sucke
EswirlSep 22nd 2007 7:38PM
If anyone smokes, they'll probably suck on anything...Smoking's Part of an oral fixation, they'd like the idea.
TonyaSep 22nd 2007 11:23PM
If we aren't smoking, we are eating. At least that is how I am and I am sure other people are too. So you can either have obesity worse than it already is, or have us smokers killing ourselves. It is our decision. But we all know that if we do quit, there you all will be criticizing us for being overweight.
macintoshSep 24th 2007 11:29AM
I recently got mine in and so far so good. I think I'll pick a couple of these up for the holiday.
eric6161Sep 25th 2007 5:48PM
When I used to smoke cigs there was a device that came out that was really only a plastic tube that looked like a cig with a sponge inside that had been dipped in nicotine residule. You'd suck on it like a cig. I found that if I put it in my nose and inhale it got to my brain MUCH faster and what a jolt it gave me. I kept these around for using when I went to church. Since there weren't any laws banning them in restaurants I just smoked the usual.
Glad I've kicked the habit now though. Zyban worked for me.
MattSep 26th 2007 1:04PM
Sheila lives in a state where cigarettes are relatively cheap ($3.50 or so a pack, she said). Here in Maine they cost just over $6.00 a pack in the grocery store.
JeanneDec 26th 2007 7:49AM
People just get off smokers backs. Don't knock everything that comes out on the market to help us stop smoking. This is safe for everyone around the smoker. Give them some time of using this smokless cigarette and the smoker's might just stop all together. Think positive and stop knocking it.