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I'm no longer a smoker, but I remember times when I wanted a smoke badly but only had time for a quick drag--such as between the car and front door of some place.
Imagine having a pack of cig-sized plastic tubes that are pre-filled with smoke. They are each clear and the size of a ciggarette.
You
can pull one out of your cigarette-sized pack; make a quick bite on one end whilst flicking a tab on the other; and take a quick drag. All this in a few seconds with no lighting, no butt to throw away, and just enough for one good hit. Err; I meant "drag."
As an added bonus, the end of each plastic tube would contain a small mint. So in a about five seconds time you could get a quick fix with minimal smoke, minimal smell, no lighting, and no ashtray to look for.
Someone beat you to it...
http://www.google.c...f&q=bidi+cigarettes
...hundreds of years ago [Mr Burns, Oct 17 2004]
Nicolaxx suppositories
http://www.iamlost.com/features/nicolaxx/
[FarmerJohn, Oct 17 2004]
[link]
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But the smoke will be room temperature, won't it? I don't know if that would make any difference mind you, since I'm a nonsmoker. |
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Is this second-hand smoke? |
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The various chemicals in the smoke would end up congealing on the inside of the tube. A bit like what the walls inside a smokers house looks like - or, indeed, their lungs - except in a portable tube. |
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Or...you could wear a patch and sniff at a small cylinder of carbon monoxide. That’s what I do. |
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//Or you could get some nuts and quit your nasty, addictive, deadly habit// |
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Mr Burns, the Bidi cigarettes are
not the same thing. I'm talking
about a sealed plastic tube with
nothing but compressed smoke in
it. (Nothing to light, no ashes, very
quick). |
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Make it compressed smoke and helium and it'll be a little fun too! |
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I think a more efficient form factor would be something like an asthma inhaler. |
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Unfortunately I dislike this idea because it seems like it would result in more people exhaling smoke near the entrance of buildings. |
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[scad mientist] So what? You're outside aren't you? Wait for a gust of wind to blow away all the nasty smoke and then hurry past holding up a big picture of a diseased lung. |
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I don't think that this will work. The reason why people smoke tobacco is that when vapourised, Nicotine is not very stable. You need to heat the tobacco to vapourise the Nicotine, then get the resulting vapour into contact with your lungs really quickly to get it absorbed into your bloodstream. If you leave it lying around, the Nicotine gets denatured and the smoke won't have the effect that smokers crave.
The other ways to get Nicotine into your blood involve prolonged exposure of the tobacco to a mucous membrane surface (like chewing or sniffing dust). |
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...lateral thought
Hmmm, so no-one's tried tobacco suppositries yet - there's a new smokeless tobacco opportunity... |
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//no-one's tried tobacco suppositries yet// 'Fraid so. See link. |
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The obvious thing would be to package
instant cigarette smoke in those little
plastic inhalers asthmatics use. |
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//The obvious thing would be to package instant cigarette smoke in those little plastic inhalers asthmatics use.// |
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That would be quite a step down, since many of those contain speed, steroids or similar substances, IIunderstandC. |
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[scout], you were still pretty much trolling. Of course, the people who advocate cigarettes with bombs in them, cigarettes that sterilize the smoker, etc. are all trolling as well, so whatever. |
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