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?
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It’s cheaper than $8/pack of Marlboros or $40 for gum.
The 30 ml juice bottle is $16 bucks and lasts a month. The blank cartridges are 5 for about $7. Last a day. Batteries are $9 and last 2 months.
Your good health and watching government hypocrites and anti smoking crony capitalist front groups lose billions...
PRICELESS
4 am reference bump ... ;-)
You just have to be discreet on an airplane.
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I don’t fly. Will you be my FRiend on FR? I love your personal page!
But you were supposed to be explaining why it was BAD.
Fascists are nevery happy until they are able to openly kill their detractors! We are on that path and they are not even hiding their intentions!
Welcome Tyranny with open arms citizen!
I’ve been trying to remember the name of that movie for months! I keep seeing it in my every day life and just couldn’t put my finger on it...
Thank you FRiend for keeping me sane!
Planes, trains, long auto trips with the family - slap on a stage 1 nicoderm patch - don’t leave home without it. Trust me. ;-)
I'll bring and cook some ribeyes, with a tagalong bottle of good Irish whisky and a pile of premium cigars if I can hang out at your place for a few hours (not a bromance, just a statement).
I put up a ham radio antenna. My sister made some snide comment about how tacky it looked. It slipped out before I could catch it: "KMA".
I'm just at that crochety old fart point in my life.
/johnny
I’m a member of that club.
"E-cigarettes! Not on my watch!"
Planes, trains, long auto trips with the family - slap on a stage 1 nicoderm patch - don’t leave home without it. Trust me. ;-)
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Ka Ching! Big Pharma funding anti smoking groups works. They got you and taxpayer funded smoker quit lines to buy their nicotine. Nothing personal, whatever works for you.
It’s none of my business.*
* Except as a taxpayer patches and gums have a 95% failure rate and we shouldn’t waste other people’s money on it
You have a new friend. Welcome to FR.
Well you did kind of make it your business by suggesting I might be taking some kind of gubmint subsidy ...
I’m a smoker, 58 and when I get patches its at CVS and its $45 and change for 14 patches.
For long periods where smoking is not allowed they allow me to just kick back and relax but I pay for it and they’re fairly expensive.
I have heard commercials here in Florida suggesting various quitting aids are available but have never checked to seeing if they’re handing out patches. All I do know is that they’re great to keep me comfortable when smoking is not allowed.
Oh and BTW even with a patch on I’ll smoke when the opportunity presents. ;-)
Thank you, Eric. See you on the forum!
Sorry if it sounded bad. Whatever works for you.
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