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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 07:12 PM
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New Nicotine Drink Takes Off At Los Angeles International Airport
New Nicotine Drink Takes Off At Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), A Newly Developed Designer Nicotine Beverage May Help Smoker's Curb Nicotine Cravings

Posted: 6/22/2006

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - Smoking Cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo, will no longer be allowed in the Golden State if California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has his way; smoking in public places like Airport Terminals may soon be banned throughout the state, yes outdoor smoking terminated, by the terminator. But arriving just in the nick of time for smokers is NIC Lite , a patent pending nicotine replacement drink, to help die hard cigarette smokers cope with all the new prohibitive smoking regulations.

Today Airplane passengers can't smoke anymore, so what can smokers do about their high flying nicotine cravings, yes chewing nicotine gum will help your ears pop, as the plane gains altitude, smokeless tobacco is great for cowboys on the open range, but where is the spittoon, perhaps in first-class or you could slap on the patch, and experience the pain of a bikini wax as you tear it off your Hawaiian sun-tanned hide or you could simply drink a new lemon-flavored designer beverage before takeoff in the departure lounge.

The new nicotine drink is now in test market at domestic airport shops for cigarette smokers who fly. It's safe. It's delicious, and helps kick the nicotine desire. NIC Lite is a lemon-flavored, water-based nicotine drink designed for smokers who can't or choose not to smoke and have to quit smoking cigarettes for limited periods of time. NIC Lite was recently featured on CNBC's "On-The-Money" segment and Los Angeles CBS News.

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http://www.bevnet.com/news/2006/06-22-2006-NicLite.asp
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 07:13 PM
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1. Where can I get it?
eom
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banjoterror Donating Member (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 07:21 PM
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2. Anyone ever swallowed...
some tobacco juice while chewing that crap. I felt queasy for an hour and almost yakked. I can't imagine how drinking nicotine could get it into your system fast enough to do any good for someone having a nic fit. I'm a few weeks into quitting cold turkey, and if someone had handed me a glass of water with nicotine during a fit in my first days clean it would have just incited me to violence upon their person. This is the cruelest joke for smokers ever.
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Betsy Ross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 07:28 PM
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3. Welcome to DU and Congrats on Quitting the Evil Weed. n/t
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 07:47 PM
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4. Oral introduction of drugs is quite rapid.
Probably not as fast as inhaling, but I think it'd take care of a nic fit in short order.
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Jaundice James Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 08:19 PM
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5. Wow...
Somebody's going to make a FORTUNE. This CAN'T be good for you.

However, I bet THIS has no trouble getting through Bush's FDA. -JJ
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jbnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 08:29 PM
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6. It had a lot of trouble with FDA
I'm not sure how they got around it. The FDA fought it a few years. Look at the headlines on this search page:
http://www.google.com/search?q=fda+nicotine+water&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=


Many anti-tobacco groups were against it too, which I find odd. It sure would be healthier for one to drink the nicotine in the water than to smoke it and there is no 2nd hand smoke problem with it.

Nicotine might be the addictive part but it is not the part that causes the health issues of smoking.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 09:25 AM
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11. nicotine does cause health issues.
it's highly addictive, and it acts as a vascular constrictor.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 09:09 PM
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7. What do smokers do?...They quit flying
We fly ONLY in an emergency (like our free trip to Tahiti)...all other travel is by car..at our own pace..and yes, even with high gas prices, it's still cheaper and more pleasant than having to partially disrobe in public, get felt up.....being jammed into a flying metal tampon applicator, and being fed crappy-if-any food, only to be deposited at the other end of the trip, and then have to do battle to get luggage (if it made it to the destination), rent a car and fight traffic in an unfamiliar place..



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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-23-06 09:13 PM
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8. Do they use the water from the urinals where the smokes
are thrown in to put them out.
Jeezus, I almost gagged reading the words 'nicotine drink'
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 09:12 AM
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9. The Mayans loved tobacco enemas! Guess this will make it
easy to recreate. Supposedly you hallucinate about snakes for the most part.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 09:24 AM
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10. is anybody else getting a disgusting mental image...
of cigarette butts in the bottom of a half-finished bottle of beer...?

yum-yum....
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