Vaping
In the early Nineties, I wrote a cyberpunk story, "Memory's Run," and as part of that story Memory, the protagonist, smoked these tobacco-free nicotine "smokes" that blew a hit of evaporated nicotine into the back of her throat for an instant, immediate nicotine hit. No carcinogens like formaldehyde, benzene and phenol; no tar and fine ash to coat the alveoli of the lungs. Memory also smoked a caffeine stick, delivering an instant hit, better than a cup of espresso.
Bring it forward to today. I spotted a new thing in the newsagent where I get my 2000 AD and pay my bills: electronic cigarettes. The main battery is in the long white part; the payload, in the brown part that looks like a filter.
From what I can tell, the things look like cigarettes. I saw someone using them in town, seemingly as a novelty. The end of it glows green, some sort of LED in the tip, and I saw a cloud of white smoke: but not smoke. Some sort of steam, laced with the nicotine payload.
I've dug up my old story and I'll probably want to bring it up to date for 2012, but damn did I get the vaping bit right.
Right doe to the caffeine vape and even an alcohol vape, both recent French inventions.
Bring it forward to today. I spotted a new thing in the newsagent where I get my 2000 AD and pay my bills: electronic cigarettes. The main battery is in the long white part; the payload, in the brown part that looks like a filter.
From what I can tell, the things look like cigarettes. I saw someone using them in town, seemingly as a novelty. The end of it glows green, some sort of LED in the tip, and I saw a cloud of white smoke: but not smoke. Some sort of steam, laced with the nicotine payload.
I've dug up my old story and I'll probably want to bring it up to date for 2012, but damn did I get the vaping bit right.
Right doe to the caffeine vape and even an alcohol vape, both recent French inventions.