We've had alternative medicine and alternative comedy, now get ready for...alternative smoking. It even has its own name - vaping.
Intellicig - a new 'vaping device'- aims to reunite smokers and their nicotine over a pint without banishing them from licensed premises or from any other place in which smoking became illegal with the advent of the smoking ban.
Its makers say the electronic cigarette provides smokers with their fix and satisfies cravings in the same way as a conventional cigarette but doesn't include the 4,800 chemicals found in a typical pack of 20 so it's less likely to send them to meet their makers.
Instead there are just four ingredients: propylene glycol, glycerol, water and nicotine. Plus, there's no danger of passive smoking, no unpleasant smoke odours, it isn't flammable and no ashtray is required.
Here's the science bit. The Intellicig comprises three parts: the battery / micro-electronics, a vapouriser device and a mouthpiece / cartridge. When the smoker, or 'vaper' perhaps, inhales through the mouthpiece, a sensitive micro pressure switch activates the rechargeable battery which causes the vapour device to vapourise a tiny drop of the cartridge liquid.
The vapour contains vapourised nicotine within the 'mist,' which in turn is delivered straight to the blood stream via the lungs, giving an instant nicotine fix.
Intellicig is available in white and black with red or blue glowing tips. Will it catch on?
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