Smoking is bad for you. Bad, bad, bad. It fills your lungs with tar, turns your teeth yellow, causes heart disease, and makes you act like a real bitch when you’re too broke to spring for a box of Lights.
Despite this much-spread knowlege, however, there is something so commercially appealing about it … sitting outside on a cool summer evening, puffing a cig, flipping your hair in the breeze … it keeps people puffin’ away.
And somehow replacing that blessed act of smoking the cancer in with rubbing some tea-bag-like tobacco called “Camel Frost” on your lips just doesn’t match up.
All three of the new products, which sell for $3 to $7 a container, package smokeless tobacco in pouches made of tea-bag-like material that is placed between the lip and the gum. The pouches are discarded after 10 minutes to half an hour and do not require spitting.
No question here — these tea bags will still kill you. Plus, you’ll have the added douchebaggery of asking the hottie outside the bar “can I bum one of your tea bags?” And who knows what’ll end up in your mouth if you go that route.
No Smoke, No Foul? Critics Disagree [Jane L. Levere, New York Times]
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Anthony Dean says:
Yes YES YES! thats right kids this days need to know the dangers of smoking when i was 10 i started smoking until one day the doctor told me that i have fruvoilis cancer. That was the day i stopped. If i had known the dangers i would have not done it.
Posted: Feb 28, 2007 at 10:22 am