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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Liquid smoking: For when you can't smoke indoors
Smoking bans are all the rage in Canada and the U.S. A Dutch-based company claims to have put together a beverage that will give you the same effects that smoking a cigarette does, without any of the cigarette smoke.
According to The Daily Mail:
A company has created a fruit-flavoured herbal drink that claims to deliver the same fix as cigarettes.
Called Liquid Smoking, it promises an instant high followed by a 'euphoric calming feeling'.
It is targeted at those who can no longer light up inside public premises under the smoking ban but want to feed their cravings.[...]
The Dutch supplier, United Drinks and Beauty Corporation, hopes the drink will go on sale here in the week before Christmas.
It says it does not contain the highly addictive drug nicotine, but a potent mix of roots from South African plants, which has been used since the 14th century by bushmen.
The bushmen would chew the concoction of leaves to achieve a high, but the producers of Liquid Smoking distilled the mix into an oil for their drink.
United Drinks and Beauty Corporation hopes to follow Red Bull and have the product sold in pubs and bars as a mixer with spirits such as vodka.
It has less than 21 calories per 275ml can and would cost £1.50 in shops and £2 in bars and pubs.
There will be no lower age limit to buy it, although the makers said they did not think it should be drunk by anyone under 15.
Of course, not everyone is delighted. Those anti-smoking kill joys who would probably like to see everyone don a helmet at all times, and stuff their shirts and pants with pillows to reduce the chance of ever getting a bruise, think it will promote addiction. Right, good point. People will start by drinking liquid smoke, and then move on to harder things like smoking crack. Science!
h/t Instapundit
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on November 19, 2008 | Permalink
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As the author of THE JOYS OF SMOKING CIGARETTES (HarperCollins 2007) I was happy to see this new product of liquid smoke appear. I want to include it when I update my book.
Posted by: james Fitzgerald | 2008-11-20 9:58:37 AM
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