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richie
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14 Feb 2009, 9:45 am

Psst, wanna drag of my e-ciggy?

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"In my weekly attempt to learn long technical words, I was browsing New Scientist when I came across a concept that made me cough to a splutter.

E-cigarettes.

Powered by batteries, they look vaguely like a cigarette, the end furthest from your lips glows red, they emit smoke, and they give you something of a nicotine hit with every drag.

However, because they don't burn, they are not classified as, well, cigarettes. And because they don't make a health claim, they're not classified as, you know, medicine. Which means that you can sit at a bar and e-puff......"


I wonder where I can get an e-bong..... :twisted:


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14 Feb 2009, 10:23 am

Once you take away the smoke, the cigarette becomes 90% less deadly (I grabbed that statistic out of thin air). Science being put to good use. :twisted:



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14 Feb 2009, 11:45 am

Reminds me of the "smokeless cigarette" that came out in the eighties.

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14 Feb 2009, 12:17 pm

So, are the health risks the same?



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14 Feb 2009, 3:23 pm

They have had these at psych wards for a while now. They didn't look like a cigarette but close enough.


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14 Feb 2009, 9:27 pm

E-gad topic

I hope the e-cig does not become a leading cause of e-cancer. :roll:

Nicotine is not a harmless substance. Inhalation of this chemical is not some innocent "drag."

The e-bong show is next.


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24 Feb 2009, 8:38 pm

Is the e-cig basically a vaporizer?



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24 Feb 2009, 10:19 pm

crap. Does this mean I can get cancr from second hand e-smoke?



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24 Feb 2009, 10:21 pm

Basically... It's a stainless steel tube with a chamber filled with water and nicotine, and a heating circuit that vaporises the mixture... I'm actually quite excited about other uses for this, as in replacing the nicotine-water mixture with something more robust ;)



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24 Feb 2009, 10:23 pm

pass da dutchie to da left hand side, mon! Image



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24 Feb 2009, 10:50 pm

digger1 wrote:
pass da dutchie to da left hand side, mon! Image

:lol: I have that song around here somewhere on CD.



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25 Feb 2009, 3:48 am

digger1 wrote:
pass da dutchie to da left hand side, mon! Image

Agreed.
Wherja get that emoticon?

And how does it feel when ya got no food? :P


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