Posted on 05/26/2013 10:46:26 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Get a load of this! Taxpayers money at work...
Feds Spend $402,721 on:
“Underwear That Senses Cigarette Smoke”
May 7, 2013
By Elizabeth Harrington
(CNSNews.com) – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $400,000 to a research project involving underwear that can detect when a person smokes cigarettes.
The University of Alabama has received two grants totaling $402,721 for the project, which so far has produced a “very early prototype” of the monitoring system, which — in its current state — fits like a vest.
The goal of the three-year study is to “develop a wearable sensor system comprised of a breathing sensor integrated into conventional underwear.”
The Personal Automatic Cigarette Tracker (PACT for short) is intended to accurately measure when and how often people smoke as well as how deeply they inhale
Smile all you want, it just encourages people to buy smokes from states with lower taxes. Nothing better than a black market to deal with the police state and its minions such as yourself.
The smoking wars are far from over, people will smoke and there is nothing you can do to stop them.
Zion, Illinois: the original Nanny State town.
Nanny State PING!
One thing about it though, it puts the lie to the idea that no one knew smoking was dangerous to health and that Big Tobacco hid that information.
Thanks for the ping!
You really need to take a closer look at ALL the studies done.
According to these studies, taken enmasse, about 30% of smokers get ANY illness related to smoking.
Of those 30%, about 30% of them get a life threatening illness. Note: not a life ending, but life threatening illness.
Of that 30%, we are now down to 10% that get a life threatening illness, about 30% of them die of a smoking related illness.
So, if you follow the studies about 3% of smokers die of a smoking related illness.
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