23 July 2008

Life Imitates Tharg part 374

Can Electronic Cigarettes Beat The Smoking Ban?

“I think people need to be cautious,” warns Dr Roberta Ferrence, director of the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit. “It’s an unknown.”

“The concern is that the product will probably be promoted as something that’s safer than smoking,” she adds. “What needs to happen to make the dangers of smoking clear is for the product to be fitted with an electronic voice, perhaps one possessed of a piercing Mexican accent and a series of warning phrases such as “No no Senor Slade! Thees ees madness!”"  .


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Comments

  1. Alan on 24 July 2008 #

    i was just thinking about a Robohunter computer/adventure game just the other day, using stoagie as the ‘helpful voice/computer’ buddy thing you always get.

    it was gonna look like hoagy was the villain, but then the real villain had just done something with his brain.

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