tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post3584473845984624780..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: Electrofag - the future?Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-82328980575787810752010-06-25T05:01:13.185+01:002010-06-25T05:01:13.185+01:00I bought a 'screwdriver' e fag. Cost quite...I bought a 'screwdriver' e fag. Cost quite a lot (about £70), but the design looks nothing like a fag - a silvery metal thing shaped..well.. like a screwdriver. I did not want an ecig which looked like a fag (if there is any such thing - I do not know). What I wanted was my nicotine 'fix' when I having a pint in the pub and having a think. I reasoned that if it did not look like a fag, then publicans would have no reason to object.<br /><br />I kept it by me at home for two or three days, having a drag from time to time. It is now in my bedside table drawer where it has been for some 6 months. Perhaps I am chicken, but until I was satisfied that the ecig provided me with what I want, there really was not much point in prematurely bringing it to the attention of bar staff and publicans. To complicate things, Monarch Airlines made a particular point of banning ecigs on their aircraft. (I have no problem with that since the aircraft are theirs and they can do what they want, which is what we smokers want to happen in pubs. As an interesting aside, however, it would be a very interesting point to investigate as to whether or not Monarch have any right to ban ecigs. One might reasonably argue that in ‘public places’ what is not forbidden by law is permitted by law. Is that not an interesting thought? Although I think that there is a logical fault in my argument, which is that, although publicans are not allowed to permit smoking in their pubs because pubs are public places, they still have the right to ban whatever. That is, this law has changed publicans’ ‘common law’ rights only in respect of smoking. Nevertheless, there is something not quite right about the whole situation.)<br /><br />Talking about ‘not quite right’ brings me to ecigs. As you said, there is something not quite right. In the three days or so that I tried it, I tried to analyse in my mind what was different. I do not think that the fact that it was a machine affected me, or that I had to press a button in order to activate it, or anything actually physical about the machine.<br /><br /> Now..Ie been smoking since I was 19. I was in the airforce and we had subsidised fags. In my time, I have smoked Sobrani Virginia, cheroots, cigars, More, Players Full Strength, Capstan, etc. Although they were all different, they all had something in common, and that is a certain harshness in the mouth. This harshness may come from the actual smoke particulates – I do not know. But I did notice the absence of this harshness in the ‘smoke’ of the ecig. The ‘smoke’ from the ecig was so smooth that one could hardly ‘feel’ it. But, I must also make the point that I do not inhale. By that I mean that I do not breathe the smoke into my lungs. I merely draw the smoke into my mouth, push it up through my nose, and blow it out in a nice cloud. <br /><br />The other thing that I noticed was that there is a specific taste in the ecig smoke. It could be banana, apple, whatever. What I know is that I do not want that. If I was really pressed to say what I really, really want, I would have to say that I want the feeling of warm, burnt leaf in my mouth and nose. In a small way, it is akin to the smoke of a bonfire. <br /><br />Next year, I will almost certainly be going on a cruise where my grand-daughter will be married. I understand that this boat is an American owned boat and that smoking thereon is ‘difficult’, although I understand that the boat has smoking areas. In those circumstances, I can see the ecig coming into its own. The taste might not be quite right, but I can hardly see my wife and I being forced to ‘walk the plank’. We shall see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-25286797192618982652010-06-23T23:44:15.402+01:002010-06-23T23:44:15.402+01:00As a non-smoker I'm rather a convert to the el...As a non-smoker I'm rather a convert to the elctrofag. I went for the no-nicotine coffee stuff, then added more coffee essential oil as it wasn't strong enough. Gives me something to do when standing outside with my smokey mates - though I do seem to be picking up a bit of a habit of vaping for the way to take a pause when doing stuff.<br /><br />More fun though is the number of smokers who've had a go and noted urls and gone of to get one - to smoke in pubs and the like.<br /><br />Oh and as someone that quite likes to cuase a bit of chaos they are great fun to use under no-smoking signs (I went for a black body with the red glow). <br /><br />As observed above the next step is seeing what else can be put in them to make them more fun. I'm having a think on that with a few more club orientated friends - of course once that's popular there'll be an instant call to ban themGiollahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506590396277806919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-29727657796012388302010-06-23T09:10:10.373+01:002010-06-23T09:10:10.373+01:00All true, everything you say. But where are we on ...All true, everything you say. But where are we on the proposed redesignation of electrofags as therapeutic nicotine devices requiring medical licencing? 23rd June was the date originally mentioned. Which is...now.PT Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-31863412806636666112010-06-23T09:06:52.988+01:002010-06-23T09:06:52.988+01:00"Nobody can claim second-hand or third-hand s...<i>"Nobody can claim second-hand or third-hand smoke because there is no residual smell at all. It just fades away on the air."</i><br /><br />Mate, so does smoke after a couple or three feet. Having quit a couple of years ago that's my comfort zone for when someone is having a fag, and really it's plenty. Not only that but 99% of the time it's also about right for 'personal space' anyway. However, it's not remotely enough for the healthist anti-smoking Strength Through Joy brigade and never will be. They'd much rather you were somewhere on the far side of the sun and would probably want to banish you to the moon even for Electrofag. You like nicotine and they will carry on hating you for it regardless of how you choose to take it, the only exception being gum and patches for the purposes of giving up and becoming like them.<br /><br />Incidentally, the worst thing about giving up smoking? It's that the fucking zealots occasionally assume that you've become one of them.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.com