Enter the nicotini: Smoking ban leads to tobacco-infused drink

Sun-Sentinel ^ | July 30, 2003 | Scott Wyman

[Recourse]

Enter the nicotini: Smoking ban leads to tobacco-infused drink

By Scott Wyman Staff Writer Posted July 30 2003

Forget the cosmopolitan. Set aside the mojito. A new drink has emerged on trendy Las Olas Boulevard since restaurants were forced to ban smoking -- the nicotini.

Call it a liquid cigarette because this drink comes complete with the nicotine rush and tobacco aftertaste found in a pack of Camels. These tobacco-spiked martinis are being served up for die-hard smokers who don't want to leave their barstools and go outside to light up.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Man, that sounds awesome, can't wait to try one. Two toxins in one form! Here in Missouri that's gonna sell better than Meth from a port-a-John based lab!!

Cheese.

[4mycountry]

Ohhhhhh dear god.

[livius]

LOL! Nicotine used to be used as an insecticide - in fact, it was a staple in early mystery novels, where somebody was always being done in by an old lady using the nicotine solution she normally sprayed on her potato bugs.

Personally, I say it's better and a lot more fun smoked.

[tophat9000]

Big deal ... same as doing chew and shooters

[July 4th]

Two toxins in one form!

Yeah, you don't have to remove the drink from your face to smoke!

[the Deejay]

...I say it's better and a lot more fun smoked."

Same here. When I was a liquid, I drink, when I was a cigarette, I want to light up & smoke.

[goldstategop]

Say whatever happened to smokeless tobacco? The kind you know, you chewed up rather than puffed out.

[Mears]

Yuk !!!!!!!

[the Deejay]

I only slightly recall the smokeless stuff. All one had to do is chew a cigarette.

[eno_]

Jakarta Kretek and gin & tonic. Four toxins, but generally no symptoms from the juniper berries. The clove makes your lips tingle and is an excellent flavor combination with gin.

[Dog Gone]

Awesome. Now if they put some Viagra in it, this will outsell Coca-Cola.

[livius]

Well, that's an idea...not for a homicide, I hope!

[coydog]

One doctor I heard of was weaning a group of people off of smoking. He took a couple of packs of cigarettes and distilled all the nicotine from them. Then he took the group to a slaughterhouse where he put the nicotine into syringes and injected it into a couple of old broken-down nags.

Each horse keeled over and died before he'd completed the injection.