Wired compounds Joel’s error by providing an entire bagful of gadgets with which to pursue his vile habit. Charlie Sorrel, who is clearly on fire today, sets out to “bring some joy back into the life of the nicotine addict, and at the same time placate the moralists who poke their noses into other people’s business.”
The classic disposable lighter tops the list, but it bottoms out with such disgusting affairs as pocket ashtrays and cigarette-compatible mittens for people so hopelessly enslaved they will endure subzero conditions to get a fix.
It’s such a shame that smokign’s so cool.
Five Gadgets for Persecuted Smokers [Gadget Lab]
Vanity compels me to tell you that the second link is broken *cough*
A quick addendum to the list:
I bought one of the corner shop cheapo lighters ($1.25) with a LED flashlight built in and I really like it. The light is well worth the loss of fuel capacity, as it is refillable. Mine even has a little compass, but that’s worthless, basically.
i want whatever he’s smokign
The most perfect convergence of form and function yet created by man may be the Zippo lighter.
I love old classic black and white movies. In them, everybody smokes. I swear even babies and dogs smoke. And they not only smoke, they chain-smoke.
The hero and heroine kiss passionately while both have cigarettes in their mouths, and simultaneously blow out massive clouds of smoke only when they release their torrid embrace.
They look so cool.
I have never, ever seen a single smoker in real life look even 1% as cool as every smoker looks in those old movies.