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May be it was the thumping music, the alcohol
or the beating sun, or some hallucinatory combination , but for a
moment in early July, it appeared as if a waterfront state park in Williamsburg , Brooklyn, had turned into a smoker's paradise.
Bikini-topped women and sweaty guys in muscle tees were puffing away as they danced at a techno party hosted by Verboten, a roving nightclub. The surgeon general might have had a stroke.
One of the revelers, Howard Wang, 28, an information technology consultant from New Jersey, took a deep drag in apparent disregard for the law and decades of antismoking campaigns. But on closer inspection, he wasn't puffing a Marlboro but a Bedford Slim, a brand of electronic cigarette marketed to the skinny-jean set. "It's the future ," said Wang.
Ten years after Mayor Michael R Bloomberg banned smoking in public places, it is returning to the city's bars, restaurants and workplaces, thanks to the growing popularity of e-cigarettes .
They can be spotted wherever traditional cigarettes had been outlawed. Tattooed web designers and writers chain-smoke at their desks at the vice offices in Williamsburg . Models inhale at No. 8, a Chelsea lounge, as they order Champagne. Leonardo DiCaprio has been spotted smoking an e-cigarette at several clubs and while riding a Citi Bike in SoHo.
Manufacturers say that ecigarettes are safer than their conventional counterparts and cheaper because they can last longer and are reusable; critics, however, say they glorify smoking and turn back the clock on public health advances.
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Bikini-topped women and sweaty guys in muscle tees were puffing away as they danced at a techno party hosted by Verboten, a roving nightclub. The surgeon general might have had a stroke.
One of the revelers, Howard Wang, 28, an information technology consultant from New Jersey, took a deep drag in apparent disregard for the law and decades of antismoking campaigns. But on closer inspection, he wasn't puffing a Marlboro but a Bedford Slim, a brand of electronic cigarette marketed to the skinny-jean set. "It's the future ," said Wang.
Ten years after Mayor Michael R Bloomberg banned smoking in public places, it is returning to the city's bars, restaurants and workplaces, thanks to the growing popularity of e-cigarettes .
They can be spotted wherever traditional cigarettes had been outlawed. Tattooed web designers and writers chain-smoke at their desks at the vice offices in Williamsburg . Models inhale at No. 8, a Chelsea lounge, as they order Champagne. Leonardo DiCaprio has been spotted smoking an e-cigarette at several clubs and while riding a Citi Bike in SoHo.
Manufacturers say that ecigarettes are safer than their conventional counterparts and cheaper because they can last longer and are reusable; critics, however, say they glorify smoking and turn back the clock on public health advances.
COMMENT:- NEXT WILL BE E-SEX AS PREDICTED BY KURSWEIL
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