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I'm not sure exactly how it would work, but the basic principle is this: A small cylindrical chamber, made of something like a thin waxed cardboard, the size of an ordinary cigarette. This cylinder is filled with a quantity of the cigarette "juice," a concoction of flavored water and nicotine. In the
filter compartment, there is a set of about ten tiny plastic turbines whose blades are angled so that each one rotates opposite the one before it. When you draw on the "Juice Cigarette," the blades spin as a small quantity of the juice is drawn through them and "chopped" into something of a vapor. This vapor is inhaled into the mouth and lungs, and there delivers sweet vitamin N into the bloodstream. Pros: Does not cause cancer. Cons: May cause pneumonia. I don't know.
effects of nicotine
http://health.allre...less-tobacco-2.html
[nuclear hobo, Mar 18 2007]
Thank you for smoking
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/
Home of the best quotes script writers have spawned thus far [methinksnot, Mar 19 2007]
Nicotine metabolism may spawn carcinogen
http://www.sciencen...s/20001028/fob5.asp
Chalk up another potential way for smoking tobacco to cause lung cancer. A new study indicates that the body can metabolize nicotine into products that the lungs subsequently may convert into a potent carcinogen. [Galbinus_Caeli, Mar 19 2007]
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Why do you say it does not cause cancer? You are still sucking up that carcinogenic nicotine. |
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Couldn't you just drink the stuff at this
point? To me, the only appeal of a
cigarette (apart from the insidious
substance N) is the ability to blow smoke
rings. |
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1) The reason why they have most of that plant gunk and so forth in cigarettes is because it is all pretty much necessary in order to mask the HORRENDOUS taste of nicotine, which happens to be one of the most bitter, nasty flavors around. I am pretty confident that juice wouldn't really make the taste cut, unless you also pumped it full of tons of chemicals as well. |
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2) You're not going to "cut" liquid into a fine enough mist to resemble smoke. This is quite likely to trigger the gag reflex instantaneously in whoever tries it, and will probably feel like you just snorted coke up your nose whenever you take a drag. |
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Galbinus, as far as I'm aware and can
ascertain, nicotine is not particularly
carcinogenic. Of course, one of the great
advantages of banging on about tobacco is
that it is not considered necessary to have
any knowledge of what you're talking
about. |
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And [smurfs], same comment applies.
Nicotine inhalators work just fine and
dandy. |
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//as far as I'm aware and can ascertain, nicotine is not particularly carcinogenic//
Although we continue to research the subject matter, we have not found any conclusive evidence linking nicotine with cancer. |
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Quite so, [methinks]. Was that a quote
from somewhere? |
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And [monk] - come to think of it, how is
this an improvement on existing nicotine
inhalators, which are simpler and work
fine? |
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[Max], If I'm not mistaken, inhalators cause nicotine to be absorbed via the mouth, not the lungs, which requires a much finer dispersal. And they do so by some sort of phase change/evaporation mechanism, not tiny little dicing turbines. |
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I didn't say that it's impossible to make nicotine vapor. I said that I don't think you can cut juice into a vapor with little blades fine enough to work (maybe if they were battery powered or something, but not just with your breath) |
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Max, it is a modified version of the final line of the main character in the movie "Thank you for smoking". It was about linking cellphones with brain cancer (the main character was a spin doctor). |
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[Smurfs] the point I was making was
that nicotine evidently doesn't taste
particularly horrendous, at least not at
the levels needed for a hit. |
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I'm not sure why inhalators deliver their
nicotine mainly to the mouth (which
they do, you're right). I can't imagine
that it's a question of dispersal, if the
inhalators produce nicotine vapour (as I
believe they do). |
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[Methinks] Aha. Not a film I've seen,
sadly. |
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I dont know, that is a good question. Perhaps this particular vapor, being a complex laden with all those solutes and such, has a tendency to settle or condense particularly quickly or something. Which would make it not really fill all portions of the lungs evenly. |
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Or perhaps it's quite simply that when you put nicotine into its own vapor, it just turns out that it gets absorbed by the mouth so quickly that the whole lung question is purely academic anyway. |
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In any case, you're right that vapor is even more fine than smoke. I still think that the lungs require finer dispersal, but if you have something as ridiculously tiny as evaporated solution, the distinction doesn't really matter anyway. |
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Huh? If you think that the nicotine in cigarettes is just whatever happens to naturally be in the tobacco plant without any modification, you're crazy. |
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Modified nicotine levels and chemical enhancement (e.g. treatment with ammonia) requires compensating additional chemicals to counteract. |
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