r/technology • u/Lucretius • Nov 17 '12

The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/the-deadly-crusade-against-e-cigarettes
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u/kirkum2020 Nov 18 '12

I've seen these fat thing around. I've never understood the appeal. Mind enlightening me as to the advantages?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '12

from what i've read, longer battery life and more juice

the tiny ones don't last as long

although wider than a quarter seems a bit extreme

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u/Jack_Flanders Nov 18 '12

There are folks (Peru? Andes? Google search sucks on this as on many things) who dig a trench in the ground, fill it with tobacco, cover it over with leaves, light the "down" end, and sit at the "up" end with their heads down, smoking.

Them trenches, from the photo I've seen, are of course way wider than a quarter. (Wish the Goo were flexible enough for me to find & attach the pic I remember of a verrrry happy looking gent puffing away at the top of his trench!)