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Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em

Teflon Ron in his younger days

I know it has been a while since I have blogged about anything!  It may have something to do with the fact that when the sun is out I feel the need to run to it and embrace it because I never know when it will rain for a week non-stop.  I have been thinking about what I can write about.  I kept seeing a commercial on television that has aroused my interest.  It is the Inhalerette (I guess named after a cigarette, not for the female version of the word inhaler.)

This electronic product looks kind of like a cigarette and emits water vapor.  My question is is it safe to inhale water vapor all day long?  In the commercial it shows people sitting in a bar blowing around water vapor that looks like smoke out of something that looks like a cigarette.  Do people actually think that someone will stop and have a conversation and try to understand that what looks like smoke is not really smoke and thus is ok to inhale in their establishment?

Below are a few testimonials.  If anyone knows anything about this product or any potential side effects of inhaling menthol flavored water vapor I would love to hear about it.  I am just surprised that this is a legal product for some reason.  At the web site’s FAQ page they recommend that pregnant or nursing women not use this product. How is this product safe then?

2 Comments »

  lyn wrote @

Golly Curt, that seems like a swell idea! Have you made the purchase? Just think how cool people will think you are when they see you puffing on one of those fancy doodads. I am green with envy. Or am I green because of the menthol flavor. No matter, I say go out and get yourself one, before they run out.

  Ira Mullins wrote @

Hi Curt,

Inhalerette (and any other company that sells product in California) is required to post Proposition 65 notices regarding its product when it ‘may’ contain Proposition 65 identified components.

The State of California’s Proposition 65 requires that products which ‘may’ contain certain chemicals regardless of concentration to disclose the potential for specific risks. Also called Prop 65, this law was designed to protect the health of a mother and/or child. Any company advertising product for sale in California which may contain identified chemicals are required by law to make such a disclosure during marketing and prior to sale. Inhalerette clearly labels its product and marketing information.
Information on California’s Proposition 65 can be found on WikiPedia or on the California Prop 65 website.

I sent an inquiry to the Inhalerette website and they promptly replied with a list of chemicals that may be in the cartridges they sell…which by the way come from Nhale Cartridges LLC. The only chemical I could find on the Prop 65 site was ‘nicotine’ which is listed as a developmental risk not a cancer risk. Several articles on the Internet identify nicotine as a risk towards premature birth, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and a stimulant in low doses (interestingly it is a depressant in large doses.)

Keep writing. I’m enjoying your blog.

Ira


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