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Technology makes smoking safe

Have a suck on this, Little Joe

SMOKING IS a filthy habit. Not only does it clog a person’s lungs with tar, significantly raise the risk of emphysema and various cancers, expose the smoker to 4000 chemical substances, age the skin and yellow the teeth, it also smells awful and irritates non smokers with pungent smoke clouds which sting the eyes and cling to clothes and hair.

But technology could make unhealthy smoking a thing of the past. Meet Gamucci; the electronic cigarette. The product purports to look, feel and taste exactly like a regular cigarette does, but comes without the tobacco and tar. It’s non flammable, non carcinogenic and doesn’t make the air unpleasantly smoky for others, yet still manages to provide the smoker with the nicotine hit they so badly crave. It can also be reused up to 20 times and never produces any ash to drop on the carpet.

The Gamucci cigarette works by utilising micro electronic technology, made from water, propylene glycol, nicotine and tobacco scented flavouring. The cigarette body itself is made up of a cartridge, an atomization chamber, a smart chip controller and built in lithium battery. Nicotine is heated and atomised inside the cartridge, which then produces a vapour which the smoker can inhale. Any smoke that the cigarette gives off is just condensation that evaporates within seconds.

Because the cigarette doesn’t put others at risk of second hand smoke inhalation, hardly smells and is non flammable, it’s also legal to “smoke” them anywhere, hence solving the problem of smoking bans in pubs and restaurants, not to mention on long flights. For smokers who just can’t or won’t go without, the Gamucci could end up being a cheap, safe and enjoyable way to smoke without all the disgusting side effects. µ

L'Inq
Gamucci Electronic Cigarette on Prezzy Box

Comments

Hmmm

And you wouldnt look like a King Size prat if you pulled one out in the pub . Course you wouldnt .

Make it smaller so it looks like a cig and then maybe .
posted by : Matt B, 19 March 2008

Right, then...

how's The INQ for helping a bloke to overclock these smoking chips?
posted by : karlsbad, 19 March 2008

PoS

This PoS shows how sick smoking really is!
posted by : puffy, 19 March 2008

Here we go again.....

They've had these in NL for a while now, I own one and I still use it alot, especially in situaties where it's irritating to smoke a real one.

But the goverment here isn't that happy about it offcource, losing money, so they're very happy to be over critical and accually ban it.

They most favorite reason for being againt is, is the possibility of inhaling much more nicotine that you "normally" would.

Altho it's legal to use, alot of companies have made an extra rule forbidding the use in they're buildings.

I could talk about this for quite a bit accually, so author, mail me if wanna know anything else.
posted by : Gert, 19 March 2008

Smoking still cool

What a relief.
It warms my (weak)heart to know these "fake fags" will still help me pull the birds(just like in the picture).
Now I'll be able to maintain my bollie drinking, model dating, jetset lifestyle when I quit smoking the real ones.
Phew!
posted by : Steve, 20 March 2008

Safe Smoking

Well smoking pot and crack can't be good for you, don't we want to save these poor people too! LOL

Oh yea, I forgot Nicotine not regulated, just taxed..... got it! :)
posted by : thelmores, 20 March 2008

BS

The article sounds like the nicotine itself was something healthy. What a BS.
posted by : zu, 21 December 2007

Non-Smokers

I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest looking around the world in which we live and shutting your f*cking mouths...
posted by : Bill Hicks, 21 December 2007

vapouriser

So it's a vaporiser then, like cannabis fans have been using for 40+ years to remove the dangers of actually smoking burning material.
posted by : captainTom, 20 March 2008

Paranoid schizophrenia sufferers rejoice

Not many people know this, but for people who suffer from hearing voices, cigarettes can help tremendously in relieving the symptoms. Specifically, it's the nicotine that relieves the symptoms.

I'm going to follow the link right now, to see if they're available in the United States.
posted by : Jason Goatcher, 22 December 2007

JANTY

In the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France they have this E-cigarette brand, everybody's so excited about called JANTY. Does anyone know if it's available in UK?
posted by : Steve, 22 March 2008

A Yin/Yang situation

@zu (I should have posted this earlyer)

Accually nicotine isn't that harmfull if you compare it to all the other tens of chemicals you inhale while smoking.

You have somewhere around a 1000 times less chance on cancer just inhaling nicotine without all the other stuff.

But......

Nicotine can make your bloodvessels contract or thinner, don't know the proper word. It can also cause an irregular heart rithem.

Cause heartattacks, lose bodyparts (no kidding, amputation)

So look at this as a gigantic step forward to a healthier way of satisfying that addiction, altho we still got quite a road to follow.
posted by : Gert, 23 March 2008

New hope

What the commenters above seem to fail to understand is that nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man. At the moment you can either get your nicotine from tobacco or NRT (patches etc). This is an alternative for the people who cannot quit (and that's around 50% of all smokers) - it's not harmless, it's harm reduction.
posted by : Matt, 24 March 2008

about rutoo cigarette

I ordered my electronic cigarette at http://www.rutoo.co.uk. They sell a very small type of this e-cigarette and it's really cheap and fast
posted by : Jefferson, a, 01 April 2008
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