camelopard
2006-08-02 16:16:03 UTC
The problem with cigarettes is that both the nicotine and the smoke are
bad. An alternative should be either safe or better, promote health. So I
am just trying to think of possible healthful alternatives to cigarettes.
There are cigarettes with no nicotine, but that produce probably harmful
smoke from tobacco combustion.
1. The simplest, and perhaps the best, is to conceive of a cigarette
alternative as an inhaler, and perhaps the best inhalant would be eucalyptus
oil, because eucalyptus oil knocks out respiratory infections, and even
increases the amount of oxygen taken from the lungs to the bloodstream. So a
cigarette alternative would seem to be something that affects respiration
positively.
2. Another idea is an inhaler that would produce oxygen. Perhaps it
might consist of a sort of air moss, genetically bred to taken in CO2 from
the breath, and rapidly produce oxygen. So one would inhale oxygen, and
exhale or partially exhale C)2 through the inhaler.
3. One could conceive of an inhaling tube crammed full of herbs good
for various aspects of respiration, such as boswellia, or glutathione.
Glutathione is an over-the-counter supplement, but someone has marketed it
in an inhaler as available by prescription only. Herbs in an inhaler might
have to be ground very small so that they could be inhaled, or possibly they
could be carried along by water vapor.
4. A cigarette alternative as an inhaler would probably have a
permanent plastic tube, into which one could insert various substances, and
a cork or non-plastic tip for the lips.
5. Maybe the idea alternative would be a mixture of herbs or chemicals
that release only healthful gases upon combustion, such as oxygen. But it
seems as if combustion produces harmful smoke. Is the road of combustion
blocked up ahead?
6. Maybe a tube would come with permanent small beads of cooling gel.
One would take the tubes out of a freeezer, and when one inhaled the cooled
air would meet warm air in the mouth, and turn to a visible vapor,
substituting as smoke. Or maybe just inhaling would somehow produce a
cooling effect, perhaps by another means than gel. It might be inconvenient
to only smoke in the garage where there is a freezer. But what else is new?
7. Perhaps a cigarette alternative could produce smoke by combining two
chemicals, as in the laboratory. It would then produce copious smoke, which
would have to be safe, but perhaps have no health benefits. However, if
there is a smoke, or vapor, perhaps it will be full of negative ions, or
ozone, and purify the air. It should have a fragrant odor, to please the
more refined ladies. (Not that there are any that are coarse.)
8. However, as a practical alternative, we men can forget about good
cigarette alternatives, and just switch to good cigars.
bad. An alternative should be either safe or better, promote health. So I
am just trying to think of possible healthful alternatives to cigarettes.
There are cigarettes with no nicotine, but that produce probably harmful
smoke from tobacco combustion.
1. The simplest, and perhaps the best, is to conceive of a cigarette
alternative as an inhaler, and perhaps the best inhalant would be eucalyptus
oil, because eucalyptus oil knocks out respiratory infections, and even
increases the amount of oxygen taken from the lungs to the bloodstream. So a
cigarette alternative would seem to be something that affects respiration
positively.
2. Another idea is an inhaler that would produce oxygen. Perhaps it
might consist of a sort of air moss, genetically bred to taken in CO2 from
the breath, and rapidly produce oxygen. So one would inhale oxygen, and
exhale or partially exhale C)2 through the inhaler.
3. One could conceive of an inhaling tube crammed full of herbs good
for various aspects of respiration, such as boswellia, or glutathione.
Glutathione is an over-the-counter supplement, but someone has marketed it
in an inhaler as available by prescription only. Herbs in an inhaler might
have to be ground very small so that they could be inhaled, or possibly they
could be carried along by water vapor.
4. A cigarette alternative as an inhaler would probably have a
permanent plastic tube, into which one could insert various substances, and
a cork or non-plastic tip for the lips.
5. Maybe the idea alternative would be a mixture of herbs or chemicals
that release only healthful gases upon combustion, such as oxygen. But it
seems as if combustion produces harmful smoke. Is the road of combustion
blocked up ahead?
6. Maybe a tube would come with permanent small beads of cooling gel.
One would take the tubes out of a freeezer, and when one inhaled the cooled
air would meet warm air in the mouth, and turn to a visible vapor,
substituting as smoke. Or maybe just inhaling would somehow produce a
cooling effect, perhaps by another means than gel. It might be inconvenient
to only smoke in the garage where there is a freezer. But what else is new?
7. Perhaps a cigarette alternative could produce smoke by combining two
chemicals, as in the laboratory. It would then produce copious smoke, which
would have to be safe, but perhaps have no health benefits. However, if
there is a smoke, or vapor, perhaps it will be full of negative ions, or
ozone, and purify the air. It should have a fragrant odor, to please the
more refined ladies. (Not that there are any that are coarse.)
8. However, as a practical alternative, we men can forget about good
cigarette alternatives, and just switch to good cigars.