Good News: Smoking in a Can

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2008-11-20 09:01:00
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With smoking bans popping up everywhere, smokers need to resort to extreme measures to enjoy the pleasures of the almighty weed. There is a Dutch Company who has stepped in to help out. If you can't smoke 'em . . . drink 'em.

It's the sort of news that will make a smoker's eyes light up.

A company has created a fruit-flavoured herbal drink that claims to deliver the same fix as cigarettes.

Called Liquid Smoking, it promises an instant high followed by a 'euphoric calming feeling'.

It is targeted at those who can no longer light up inside public premises under the smoking ban but want to feed their cravings. . . .

It says it does not contain the highly addictive drug nicotine, but a potent mix of roots from South African plants, which has been used since the 14th century by bushmen.

The bushmen would chew the concoction of leaves to achieve a high, but the producers of Liquid Smoking distilled the mix into an oil for their drink.

United Drinks and Beauty Corporation hopes to follow Red Bull and have the product sold in pubs and bars as a mixer with spirits such as vodka.

You would think the anti-smoking, nanny-stater, freedom killing crowd would dig this, right?

Nope.

But anti-smoking groups are not impressed. Amanda Sanford, from Action on Smoking and Health, said: 'We are concerned that we have started to see a number of these novel products on the market which are supposed to be alternatives to smoking.

'Although we welcome anything which is a genuine alternative, many of these are totally unregulated and we only have the manufacturer's word about what they contain.

'We would be concerned about any health claims that are unsubstantiated, and at this stage we wouldn't encourage people to buy them.'

The group also criticised the packaging, which is designed to look like a pack of cigarettes, saying it could further encourage smoking.

The liberal thought police don't even want you thinking about smoking, or trans-fat, or salt.

Just sit there and await new instructions.

H/T Instapundit via Al Dente Blog

Tags: Smoking in a Can, Smoking, Nanny-state, Liquid Smoking, Liberals, Dutch, Drink, 

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