Posted on 01/09/2013 7:06:47 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
I've long been a decorative smoker. One daily roll-up hasn't imperilled my health much, and it's rescued me from the ranks of the self-righteous. I've relished the dash of badness, but my indulgence has come at a price: complicity. My more heavily addicted husband has smoked from the age of 19. So long as I join him in the odd postprandial drag, I'm a bad influence.
Last month I switched to an e-cig. I'm a convert. Sleek, black, and easily confused with a fine-point felt-tip, this newfangled "nicotine delivery system" is dead cool. The gently warm vapour ingeniously replicates the reflective pause of a real fag, the same quiet little buzz. But it doesn't stink up your breath, cover surfaces with ash, turn the air acrid, stain your fingers, brown your teeth, reduce bone mass of the jaw, promote gum disease, or wait for the drum roll cause cancer. Nor does an e-cig give anyone in your vicinity cancer.
Why, then, are so many nonsmokers queasy, nay denunciatory, about electronic fags? Why did the EU's tobacco product directive released last month propose effectively banning any e-cigs that deliver remotely enough nicotine to make them an attractive alternative to tobacco? Isn't a "tobacco product directive" reaching beyond its remit by seeking to regulate a product containing no tobacco? Why is the sale of a device that administers a mild stimulant about as energising as a cup of coffee already illegal in Denmark, Belgium and Norway? Why do some airlines specifically ban e-cigs, which don't foul the air on planes?
(Excerpt) Read more at m.guardiannews.com ...
I'm also drinking beer, mostly nekked, except for a hair tie and a smile, and filling the bathtub with hot water so I can soak and enjoy on a rainy afternoon.
That should wad their panties right up.
This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice, and be glad in it.
/johnny
LOL
Edgar Friendly, isat you?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
...mentally ill?
Throw a couple more Firestone tires on the fire while you are up?
It’s a very lucrative racket. Much like global warming. Lots of cash and gubmint grants to pay for the villa in Aspen and the lease on the Mercedes Benz E550.
All paid for by some honest guy who works in a factory somewhere who just wants to have a beer and a cigarette in a bar with his friends after work.
Can’t have that. He wouldn’t be coerced to quit using the gums and patches that Big Pharma sells to the smoker quit lines.
Wasn't going to waste my words on someone who posted and ran. Since you are here:
I am of both worlds. I smoke real cigarettes when I am in my house and anyone who comes in and doesn't like it, can leave.
I use “blu” e cigarettes when in someone’s car or a restaurant. When my son is here, I use the e cigarette when we are in my car because the smoke bothers him physically.
I tried another e cigarette first and it was impossible as either the tip or the battery was out, hard to get both working at the same time. “blu” is different. The tips are use and throw away, nothing to re-fill. There is a nice box that has a rechargeable battery in it that charges a battery when you are using another one. When that one dies, get the one the box has charged and put the one just out in there and it recharges so it travels well. You always have a charged battery.
So, I use both and the blu works very well.
Wasn't going to waste my words on someone who posted and ran. Since you are here:
I am of both worlds. I smoke real cigarettes when I am in my house and anyone who comes in and doesn't like it, can leave.
I use “blu” e cigarettes when in someone’s car or a restaurant. When my son is here, I use the e cigarette when we are in my car because the smoke bothers him physically.
I tried another e cigarette first and it was impossible as either the tip or the battery was out, hard to get both working at the same time. “blu” is different. The tips are use and throw away, nothing to re-fill. There is a nice box that has a rechargeable battery in it that charges a battery when you are using another one. When that one dies, get the one the box has charged and put the one just out in there and it recharges so it travels well. You always have a charged battery.
So, I use both and the blu works very well.
I did ping the daughter to ask her if she has the movie and would she be kind enough to share it if she does.
I was very busy for 20 years and missed out on pop culture. From what I see of today's pop culture... I didn't miss much.
/johnny
That’s strange - only hit post once.
Thanks for the ping!
I was of both worlds for the first week. It is interesting how it doesn’t work for everyone.
The technology was still in the Commodore 64 stage. I dealt with crappy batteries, clogged atomizers.
Now it is in the Apple II stage.
In this case, leftists and statists just have their typical reaction....Ban, ban ban. Laws laws laws. Ask questions later.
NY public serpent legislators banned UFC and ultimate fighting when they first heard of it. Just because.
Then they calmed down and stopped emoting and thought. Now it is at MSG.
I read that whole thing. Thanks.
FWIW, I only heard about this piece from reading Dr. Siegels blog.
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/01/sometimes-it-takes-novelist-to.html?m=1
He’s great. Gabz will disagree.:-)
Bttt.
I'm not so good with lime jello, but the rest has a certain appeal.
/johnny
How does it compare cost wise with regular smokes?
Billions of dollars. That is the big shoe to drop. Gubmints will have to admit the truth.
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