Postby dolfan » April 7th, 2009, 9:27 am
It isn't smoke. It's water vapor. It dissipates almost instantly on exhale, but you do certainly see it as it comes out. The vapor is there for that purpose. The delivery of the nicotine could be had without that, but the makers know part of the payoff of dragging on one is the smoker watching the smoke waft away from himself. It does deliver nicotine.
On the same vein, there's the new Snus. Swedish snuff. Snus is Swedish for snuff. Camel has a version with that brand name now. It is spitless, pouch snuff. You can swallow it. It's made to attract men and women who can't smoke indoors. It has a highly pleasant mint taste to it that's hardly tobacco-y at all, but it does have a pretty strong kick to it nicotine wise. You simply swallow as you let it rest in your upper gum.
I was telling an old local lawyer about it one day at the courthouse as he got him a handful of chewing tobacco, and he said, "Have you ever seen me spit? I quit spittin' when tobacco went to 50 cents a pack!" Funny stuff. Old lawyers .... nobody any funnier.
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