Phillip Morris International (PMI) has received (Oct. 7th 2014) its US patent for an ‘Electrically Heated Smoking System’ Unlike many currently available ‘vape’ sticks, the new device can heat actual tobacco rather than evaporating a nicotine-based liquid. And, unusually for a cigarette, it can ‘communicate’ with a host computer/ tablet etc via a USB plug. […]
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“Bleeding wound? Relax and roll a cigarette.”
Cigarettes have become less popular for use by doctors on the job, but they still serve, on occasion, as inspiration. Here is one cigarette-inspired idea: “Bleeding wound? Relax and roll a cigarette,” Stuart G. Williams and Cara Connolly, Injury Extra, epub April 30, 2014. The authors, at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, Scotland and Springfield Hospital, Essex, England, […]
Bernstein’s butt-lighting machine
This cigarette-lighting device, built by German artist Daniel Kühn, was owned by conductor Leonard Bernstein, and plays Bernstein’s theme from the musical Candide. (Thanks to investigator Jim Cowdery for bringing it to our attention.)