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There is something magical about smoking, if it's not the way you start to wheeze after a couple of decades, its the swirls of smoke that drift across light sources.
Curtains half closed, Saturday afternoon film on and strata of cigarette smoke rising through the strong beams of summer sunlight. That's
how I remember it from early childhood.
If your friends still smoke outside at work, then buy a pack of "Grey Smoke Blowing Tubes" (sold in packs of 20). Simply take one outside, enjoy the conversation and when the smokers exhale, you blow through the tube giving exactly the same effect. Enterain your kids with indoor cloud formations and visualisation of air currents.
Also available - "Light Grey Smoke blowing tubes" and a selection of bright colours.
I think I remember these, though they are not made of candy!
http://www.etsy.com...listing_id=15726196
[xandram, Jun 09 2009]
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// you blow through the tube// Errr, that ain't the way
people smoke. |
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/// you blow through the tube// Errr, that ain't the way people smoke./ |
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After Blowing Tubes hit the market, everyone will be smoking that way! |
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I went to a Jazz Club some time ago (post smoking ban) and was (only marginally) disappointed that there was no atmospheric haze between me and the band. On the plus side, we didn't all stink or poison ourselves in the enjoyment of the music - but it would be kind of nice to reintroduce a sanitised form of ambient smoke into some establishments. |
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On a tangent, the apparent near-global removal of smoke from drinking establishments is a reversal of what may be 400 years of cultural accretion - I still find it amazing that it all happened so quickly/easily. |
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//but it would be kind of nice to reintroduce a sanitised form of ambient smoke into some establishments// - hazer, anyone? |
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[loon] The smoke that comes out of smoke machines is what I was thinking of when writing "safe". |
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Grey smoke blowing tubes, also useful for snorting white powder. |
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+ it's cute. I think they make candy cigs that you can blow a puff of white powder out!
No one stopped smoking in the casinos yet! If you want an early morning haze or all afternoon eye irratation, just visit the nearest casino! |
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[xandram] Your link is so close to the idea it almost makes it baked. I was thinking of some high tech smoke generating chemical rather than a cloud of dust though. Nice find. |
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There is a certain grade of cross-country ski wax,
that will produce puffs of 'smoke' from your thumb
and finger. Said appendages are coated in wax, and
rapidly brought together and pulled apart. Fine tufts
of wax float away in perfect mimicry of smoke. It's
not blowing through a tube, but still fun. |
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...just showing my (old) age!!! |
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//On a tangent, the apparent near-global removal of smoke from drinking establishments is a reversal of what may be 400 years of cultural accretion - I still find it amazing that it all happened so quickly/easily.// |
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Indeed. There should be an unwritten rule that to mismantle something of a cultural nature takes at least as long as it took to build up. Smoking, unions, dictatorships, suicide bombers, laws of human attraction. The last one having taken millions of years to evolve and has been removed in a century through the use of deodorants and plastic surgery. |
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//certain grade of cross-country ski wax, that will produce puffs of 'smoke' // |
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If you strip the striker from a pack of matches, and remove as much of the paper as you can by hand, then you light one end and rub it on a piece of glass as it burns, you can then rub a bit of the resulting residue on a finger and thumb and make a wisp of smoke appear at the snap of your fingers or by rubbing them together. |
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