Smoking Gets Healthy: eCigarette May 14, 2007

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For many men, giving up smoking holds all the appeal of being asked to put their genitals in a meat-grinder.

The mere thought of no, regular nicotine fix via their tobacco sticks induces wide-eyed panic, regardless of the buckets of tarry phlegm they manage to hawk up from their lungs every year. With the smoking ban looming like some dark - yet revoltingly healthy - cloud, it's possible some will opt for a healthier option.

Now, there is a real alternative to the fag that doesn’t involve 14 patches, a bank loan, kicking the cat and chewing special gum for 16 hours a day. Meet the battery-operated, eCigarette, which looks kind of like the real thing and acts as a nicotine delivery system without all the other toxins that go into your typical cigarette. You even get to hold something between those now naked fingers.

However, that smoke you see is vapor created by the eCigarette so that you don’t look like a total wuss down the boozer. Be warned though that they might catch on when they see there’s none of the usual ash floating on the top of your pint and your fag never shrinks.

Chinese company Gloden Dragon is selling this for £105 and plans to market it overseas soon.-Martin Lynch

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