Jan 4, 2012
How to make a safer cigarette
Jove just published its 1500th video/paper for which congratulations: Video: A Protocol for Detecting and Scavenging Gas-phase Free Radicals in Mainstream Cigarette Smoke.
Sounds straight enough, analytical work for testing free radicals in cigarette smoke. The press release I was sent on this, however, hints at this work from Cornell being somehow ready to bring us a healthier cigarette. Supposedly, antioxidants in the filter would neutralize the cancer-causing free-radicals.
Hmmm…it’s not like anyone is forced to smoke is it?
Sounds like a plan Ruben! I really couldn’t see the point of anyone putting research effort into creating a safer cigarette, except of course that it’s a multibillion industry that generates huge tax revenues…b*st*rds.
Dear Sciencebase,
I take your point, Hey guys, I’ve been a smoker for quite sometime now and lately I’ve been trying to think of a new way to smoke to save me the shortness of breath and the increased risk of cancer. So today I tried smoking my cigarettes rectally.
I light a cigarette, put it in my anus, pull with my rectal muscles to inhale and push or fart to exhale. What do you think?
Keep up the good work