🐱 They're vaping booze now

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Since achieving statehood in 1848, its residents have guzzled oceans of the stuff via liquids -- beer, wine, spirits, god-knows-what-else. But now, in the age of V.C. #disruption, an innovative new method of getting shit-faced has emerged: vaping.

Milwaukee's Werd Bar claims to be the first establishment in Wisconsin to offer vape shots, Patch reports.

"Come be the first to experience the newest way to take a shot!" bar owner Drew Kent wrote last week in a Facebook post. "Alcohol Mist is a shot that is vaporized into a balloon for you to inhale! Each balloon is equivalent to 2 and a half shots! Don't worry about the calories because your not digesting the shot... you're inhaling it! First bar in Wisconsin to offer this NEWEST sensation."

Each balloon will set ya back $8; patrons will experience "an instant buzz that some describe as uniquely distinct from your everyday drinking experience," according the machine's manufacturer, Vapshot Inc. Tech website Gizmodo describes the booze-vaping process as "one hell of a fun gimmick."

Vapshot's $8,000 Alcohol MIST PRO machine doesn't technicallyvaporize alcohol (its $10,000 Vapshot PRO does). Instead, it attaches "micro-droplets" of liquid alcohol to the mist shots, which go straight from a latex balloon and into your lungs, resulting in a virtually calorie-free drinking experience. A single 750-milliliter bottle of spirits produces 1,500 shots from the MIST PRO, like the one at Werd Bar. Inhaling alcohol is "potentially even safer" than drinking it, according to Vapshot, though that boast is disputed.

In any case, huffing alcohol presents a bold/boozy new frontier for our famously wasted neighbors to the East. Godspeed.

 

[Sped Xing]

"Hafinthebaaaag . . . I traded my oxygen machine for a mist pro"

 

[SJ 485]

This place is fucked as soon as some retard inhales and chokes on a balloon.

 

[Recoil]

Nibbas was vaping home made RCs ten years ago

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Alcohol isn't even kind on the stomach, so I can't imagine how it would on delicate lungs that weren't even made to tolerate smoke.

 

[Dan Abrams]

This sounds like a cool new way to get lung cancer.

 

[Coldgrip]

I give it 3 months until someone dies from this.

I give it one tops. It's going to be some dumb 14-16yr old and the mom (dad not likely in the picture) is going to demand somebody in congress do something, the usual pearl-clutchers will clutch pearls, and life for the rest of us will go on normally until congress rams though some stupid and utterly toothless piece of legislature that does absolutely nothing except maybe cause us to shake our heads in disappointment.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

After mulling it over for a while, I've decided that I'd give it a shot. I enjoy being drunk, but sometimes the drinking part is kind of a slog.

 

[Recoil]

This sounds like a cool new way to get lung cancer.

Vaping nicotine does not give you cancer. Nicotine is as harmful as caffeine.

 

[Dan Abrams]

Vaping nicotine does not give you cancer. Nicotine is bad as harmful as caffeine.

I realize that, I vape myself. But alcohol is a known toxin and carcinogen that damages every part of your body. If someone wanted to claim that the new epidemic of TEENS VAPING ALCOHOL AT SCHOOL could actually cause some damage I'd believe that.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Don't worry about the calories because your not digesting the shot... you're inhaling it!

Yes because if there's anything I want collecting as condensation and forming a pool at the bottom of my lungs, it's fucking alcohol. Enjoy that coughing fit that won't end, morons.

 

[Antique Rice]

Oh good, just what we need, more ways for people to poison themselves into stupidity and permanent damage. Because people aren't stupid enough, dying fast enough, or accidentally killing enough random people already.

So you too agree Darwin needs more help lately.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I get the shits real bad after a night of drinking.

But will this also turn my shit into rocket fuel?

 

[Vorhtbame]

So you too agree Darwin needs more help lately.

Hardly. It never seems to be the ones who are truly foolish who suffer from their folly. Some innocent bystander gets killed in a wreck caused by the foolish; the foolish give the corrupt an excuse to strip the rest of us of rights and property because of an "epidemic" of folly dressed up as a "crisis". Or those of us who were wise enough to remain able-bodied and upstanding end up paying the tab for those who destroyed their health, sanity, and opportunities.

We live in an age of fools--and IMO, Darwin contributed to that, because apparently we now think wisdom is a heritable trait and not acquired.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Yes because if there's anything I want collecting as condensation and forming a pool at the bottom of my lungs, it's fucking alcohol. Enjoy that coughing fit that won't end, morons.

It also doesn't work that way, you still get the calories.

But alcohol will evaporate out of your lungs, it's fine, don't worry about a pool of it. Worry about the scar tissue it creates causing cancer, maybe. Worry about dying from alcohol poisoning. But you probably won't drown in alcohol.