The new "heathier" cigarrette!

Guys, don't believe the title. Cigarrettes will never be healthy and, IMO, they're a bad idea (I know, I smoked for 6 years, mostly "rollies.")

....but, check this out, it's the Vitacig! Supposedly doesn't smell as bad, doesn't stain teeth, and it contains vitamin C and other beneficial ingredients.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060421/vitacig_060421/20060421?hub=TopStories

Is this the same company that makes the VitaBullet...shoot yourself in the head and feel better instantly?

And you end up like my Mom - just diagnosed with Stage III Non small cell lung cancer (inoperable, not a radiaition candidate - aka terminal)

nikon said:

Is this the same company that makes the VitaBullet...shoot yourself in the head and feel better instantly?

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KC2IXE said:

And you end up like my Mom - just diagnosed with Stage III Non small cell lung cancer (inoperable, not a radiaition candidate - aka terminal)

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I'm very sorry to hear this bad news. I'll say a prayer for your Mom tonight.

nikon said:

I'm very sorry to hear this bad news. I'll say a prayer for your Mom tonight.

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Thank you

Trashman said:

but, check this out, it's the Vitacig! Supposedly doesn't smell as bad, doesn't stain teeth, and it contains vitamin C and other beneficial ingredients.

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Did they by chance remove the shi* from the cigarettes that kills you?

eebowler said:

Did they by chance remove the shi* from the cigarettes that kills you?

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Nope, they'll still kill you, but you won't die of scurvy.

Trashman said:

Nope, they'll still kill you, but you won't die of scurvy.

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No guarantee of that. Vitamins aren't absorbed that way.

Rudi said:

No guarantee of that. Vitamins aren't absorbed that way.

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I didn't see any mention of how the vitamin C is supposed to be absorbed. My guess is that it's in the filter and would be absorbed through the saliva.

Look at the happy creator:


And his healthy looking wife,who has smoked a pack of cigarettes every day since the age of 14:

'I am happy, because I don't have to quit any more'

This almost looks like a joke.

Trashman said:

I didn't see any mention of how the vitamin C is supposed to be absorbed. My guess is that it's in the filter and would be absorbed through the saliva.

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You assume that they are trying to help their customers? I assume that they are trying to fool people who doesn't know any better, or people who just wants an excuse,into smoking more cigaretts.

although I must say it doesn't claim "HEALTHY"...just "HEALTHIER" Which is 100% possible and probably a good thing

Omega Man said:

Look at the happy creator:


And his healthy looking wife,who has smoked a pack of cigarettes every day since the age of 14:

'I am happy, because I don't have to quit any more'

This almost looks like a joke.

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Both look like they have been rode pretty hard!

they need the Dr Cher goes to

The last time they came out with a "healthier" cigerette in the 1980s, it tasted terrible and smelled even worse than your garden-variety Marlboros.
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Omega Man, and Dpled, are you making some sort of argument based on someone not being "pretty people"?

I think he's blaming their advanced looking age on their smoking, thats all. I'd tend to agree. Just looking around at my own family the 40 year old smokers look like the 60 year old non-smokers...

James S said:

I think he's blaming their advanced looking age on their smoking

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"Their", age, and "their" smoking?
She smokes, he doesn't.

eebowler said:

You assume that they are trying to help their customers? I assume that they are trying to fool people who doesn't know any better, or people who just wants an excuse,into smoking more cigaretts.

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Nope, I'm not assuming anything! Well, ok, I guess I am assuming that the non-smoking inventor, who developed this for his wife, is a reasonably intelligent man who knows that burning vitamin C and then inhaling the smoke isn't going to deliver a viable form of the vitamin into the body.