I forgot to mention I finally ordered the e-cigarette, and it arrived just in time for me to show it off as a party trick at the beach house over Thanksgiving. It's fun and hilarious.
It came with some nicotine cartridges, but so far I've only used the ones without nicotine. It's not EXACTLY the same as really smoking a cigarette--while the mysterious vapor does produce an odd prickly sensation in your mouth that does feel like a real cigarette, you have to take longer and slower drags to get the full looks-like-smoke-coming-out-of-your-mouth effect. Once you get the hang of it, though, you can even blow smoke rings. The LED end of the thing looks astonishingly like a real lit cigarette, except that it doesn't produce smoke. Also, it weighs more than you'd think--a bit more than a double-A battery, I'd say.
All of my smoking relatives were entranced and intrigued. They've all tried to quit a million times, so naturally they are thinking hard about the cost of the e-cigarette compared to an actual cigarette habit. If the economy weren't so wretched, and if I hadn't decided to knit everyone's presents this year, I would definitely consider giving the e-cigarette to all of them for Christmas.
My sister is the only one who seemed worried about what is actually IN the e-cigarette vapor. She says she read online somewhere that nobody's really vetted it and nobody really knows if it's safe. I figure it's got to be better than actual tobacco smoke, but I'm betting it isn't totally innocuous. The second evening, I took a big drag and had a horrible coughing fit. It turned out I was just beginning to get a very bad cold, but still.
ANYWAY. Do I recommend this thing? Absolutely. I can't wait to use it in a bar.
8 comments:
Katie!
I've tried that damn non-smoke smoke, and I have to tell you, not only did it elicit laughter from the people around me, but I got a fucking hernia trying to get the usual pleasure of smoking out of it. Naturally, patches have not worked for me (I tend to eat them) so here I sit, smoking my head off, and enjoying it immensely. One thing at a time, as they say, and the choice was booze over smokes. Virginia Slim, anyone?
Craig
that guy is mean
Oh, Andi. Mean?! Surely you could do better than that. Mean is pretty banal in comparison to a lot of other adjectives that could have been used! Get out the thesaurus and try again.
Don't insult my sheer cuntery!
Sheesh.
Craig
Cut the girl some slack, Craig. She's only twelve. You are SO R-rated! xoxo
Ooops. Sorry.
No worries. She's in training. ;)
would it work for weed? What I want is the convenience of a one-hitter pipe and the health benfits of an herbal vaporizer.
I got my own e-cigarette a couple of months ago, and it really as an awesome little device. I am very skeptical of the Smoke Juice found in most electronic cigarettes after the recent FDA findings. They said that the "Chinese Poison" contains the same chemicals found in Antifreeze... scary. Since then, I Started using only USA Made Smoke Juice as the quality control is much more advanced here in the States. There are a few out there including Johnson Creek, Halo and Cloud 9.
Welcome to the e-smoking revolution!
Johnny Blaze
PS. It wont work for weed David Stoes
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