Machine makes it easy to inhale hard liquor

Boston Globe ^ | 1.25.06 | Kathleen Burge

[el_chupacabra]

The drink arrives, not in a glass, but in a puff of alcohol-laden vapor. Imbibers sit beside each other on bar stools, breathing deeply from plastic devices that resemble giant asthma inhalers.

Even though the futuristic Alcohol Without Liquid machines have apparently not arrived in Massachusetts, some legislators and law enforcement officials are so fearful of their potency that the House will hear testimony today on a bill banning the machines, which are popular in Europe.

Promoters say the devices deliver low-calorie, low-carb, hangover-free doses of booze.

[el_chupacabra]

Final lines of the full article are enlightening.

[Slump Tester]

Teddy wants one that plugs into his cigarette lighter.

[Minutemen]

I wonder if the imbibers would also like to sniff low-calorie glue?

[Maceman]

Thank God.Does this mean I won't have to burn my nasal passages by sucking it up through a straw, like I have to do now?

[unixfox]

Promoters say the devices deliver low-calorie, low-carb, hangover-free doses of booze.

Sounds like a crack pipe to me.

[farlander]

Ok, so, it's tasteless, alchohol inhalation ? What is the damn point ? Just to get wasted ?

[farlander]

Don't know about the imbibers, but the inventors of this sure have been.

[atomicpossum]

Technolgy gives us such neat ways to be stupid.

[dakine]

What is the damn point ? Just to get wasted ?

Is there any other?

[Kozak]

Party on Dudes!

[humblegunner]

Anybody ever use Jack Daniel's instead of bong water?

'Fess up, now.. I know I did it. Shoulda gone for the patent.

[Yo-Yo]

I always said I'd quit drinking...when they came up with a better way to get it down!

[eastforker]

I have no problem inhaling hard liquer.

[mtbopfuyn]

Sure, get drunk and your parents won't be able to smell the booze on you as you stumble in at 2 AM.

[atomicpossum]

Notice how these sales pictures always imply that the ugly guy gets the hot chicks? You can see who they're targeting, and it ain't the hot chicks.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Suddenly my opinion has changed.

(I just can't figure out why.)

[Sir Gawain]

The hypocrisy of the war on some drugs is hilarious.

[MeanWestTexan]

That ugly guy probably did get the chicks.

Of course, he probably paid them.

[eastforker]

And what is wrong with Free Enterprise????

[Yo-Yo]

Last line of the article:

And some say the technology fizzles. A New Jersey bar owner who bought one of the first machines sold in this country sent his back, saying it made it too hard to get drunk.