I've been playing around with some concepts and doing some writing about vaping; if people enjoy it I'll write some more.
Anyone is free to share or repost.
The Land of Coffee Smoking.
Once upon a time there was a land where people smoked coffee leaves. It became a big industry, and
many people enjoyed smoking coffee leaves in cigarettes, cigars and pipes.
It started to be realized how harmful for health this was. It was found to cause lung disease, heart
disease, cancer and more. It was found that coffee smoking directly and indirectly caused millions
of deaths.
Health organizations campaigned against coffee leaf smoking. Advertising was banned and taxes
increased.
The rates of coffee smoking dropped over the years, but there remained a large group of smokers
who just could not quit. They were addicted to the caffeine, indeed a lot of them found that
caffeine benefited their lives, making them happier, more alert and able to concentrate.
Then one day some people found that they could get the same effects through the roasted coffee beans.
An underground movement of "grinders" arose, making home made brews, steeping the ground coffee beans
in hot water and enjoying a flavorsome brew.
Many Chinese manufacturers started making various machines, some of very high quality, (some less so) with
variable grinding and roasting capacities. Other companies added milk, cream and sugar,
to make very tasty and enjoyable brews.
It was thought that ingesting the coffee through the stomach rather than the lungs would be safer.
Grinders generally felt much better in themselves, with better breathing and enjoyed not smelling
of coffee smoke.
Anti-coffee organizations, which had become huge, were horrified.
Australia enacted the most severe anti-grinding legislation.
"Ground coffee is poison and addictive"
Queensland Health is warning Queenslanders not to buy pre-ground coffee or caffeine containing
coffee beans, following the seizure of more than 70 consignments imported into the country.
Health Protection Directorate Executive Director Nancy Antzy said Queensland Health
had been advised Queenslanders were buying ground coffee from overseas websites and
importing it into Australia.
“Ground coffee is illegal in Australia,” she said.
“It contains vast uncontrolled amounts of caffeine, which is a very dangerous poison,” she said.
In the past month, the Brisbane North Public Health Unit has seized and destroyed about
70 consignments at Brisbane Airport’s postal screening service.
”It is classed as a Schedule 7 dangerous poison under the Australian Standard for the
Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons,” Ms Antzy said.
“If used inappropriately – or if children get hold of the liquid caffeine – the consequences
can be fatal,” she said.
The World Health Organisation’s International Program on Chemical Safety advises that as little as
2g of brewed caffeine can kill a child within five minutes of them swallowing it.
“Brewed coffee is being misleadingly marketed as a safe alternative to coffee smoking and as
an aid in withdrawal from coffee smoking – but this is not the case,” Ms Antzy said.
“There is no evidence coffee brews are effective in helping people to quit smoking coffee.
“There are a range of safe products people can use to help them quit smoking coffee, including
caffeine patches, gum, No-doze, or sublingual tablets,” she said.
Professor Prohibitina Antziou, Chair of the ERS Coffee Control Committee, said: 'We do not yet know
whether unapproved caffeine delivery products, such as coffee brews, are safer than smoking coffee,
despite marketing claims that they are less harmful.
'My research helps us to understand how these brews could be potentially harmful.
'We found an immediate rise in heart rate in our group of participants, which suggests coffee drinking
can cause immediate harm
'The ERS recommends following effective coffee smoking cessation treatment guidelines based on
clinical evidence which do not advocate the use of such products.'
Ministers are concerned that some brews of ground coffee beans may contain very high levels of
caffeine.
Some of these brewing companies have also targeted children by offering coffee brews in sweet flavors
such as vanilla, chocolate and cookies 'n' cream. By adding flavors, sugar and milk to these brews
they make these products attractive to children, hooking a new generation on to the evil caffeine drug.
No doubt many of these children will "graduate" to coffee smoking as they get older.
Anyone is free to share or repost.
The Land of Coffee Smoking.
Once upon a time there was a land where people smoked coffee leaves. It became a big industry, and
many people enjoyed smoking coffee leaves in cigarettes, cigars and pipes.
It started to be realized how harmful for health this was. It was found to cause lung disease, heart
disease, cancer and more. It was found that coffee smoking directly and indirectly caused millions
of deaths.
Health organizations campaigned against coffee leaf smoking. Advertising was banned and taxes
increased.
The rates of coffee smoking dropped over the years, but there remained a large group of smokers
who just could not quit. They were addicted to the caffeine, indeed a lot of them found that
caffeine benefited their lives, making them happier, more alert and able to concentrate.
Then one day some people found that they could get the same effects through the roasted coffee beans.
An underground movement of "grinders" arose, making home made brews, steeping the ground coffee beans
in hot water and enjoying a flavorsome brew.
Many Chinese manufacturers started making various machines, some of very high quality, (some less so) with
variable grinding and roasting capacities. Other companies added milk, cream and sugar,
to make very tasty and enjoyable brews.
It was thought that ingesting the coffee through the stomach rather than the lungs would be safer.
Grinders generally felt much better in themselves, with better breathing and enjoyed not smelling
of coffee smoke.
Anti-coffee organizations, which had become huge, were horrified.
Australia enacted the most severe anti-grinding legislation.
"Ground coffee is poison and addictive"
Queensland Health is warning Queenslanders not to buy pre-ground coffee or caffeine containing
coffee beans, following the seizure of more than 70 consignments imported into the country.
Health Protection Directorate Executive Director Nancy Antzy said Queensland Health
had been advised Queenslanders were buying ground coffee from overseas websites and
importing it into Australia.
“Ground coffee is illegal in Australia,” she said.
“It contains vast uncontrolled amounts of caffeine, which is a very dangerous poison,” she said.
In the past month, the Brisbane North Public Health Unit has seized and destroyed about
70 consignments at Brisbane Airport’s postal screening service.
”It is classed as a Schedule 7 dangerous poison under the Australian Standard for the
Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons,” Ms Antzy said.
“If used inappropriately – or if children get hold of the liquid caffeine – the consequences
can be fatal,” she said.
The World Health Organisation’s International Program on Chemical Safety advises that as little as
2g of brewed caffeine can kill a child within five minutes of them swallowing it.
“Brewed coffee is being misleadingly marketed as a safe alternative to coffee smoking and as
an aid in withdrawal from coffee smoking – but this is not the case,” Ms Antzy said.
“There is no evidence coffee brews are effective in helping people to quit smoking coffee.
“There are a range of safe products people can use to help them quit smoking coffee, including
caffeine patches, gum, No-doze, or sublingual tablets,” she said.
Professor Prohibitina Antziou, Chair of the ERS Coffee Control Committee, said: 'We do not yet know
whether unapproved caffeine delivery products, such as coffee brews, are safer than smoking coffee,
despite marketing claims that they are less harmful.
'My research helps us to understand how these brews could be potentially harmful.
'We found an immediate rise in heart rate in our group of participants, which suggests coffee drinking
can cause immediate harm
'The ERS recommends following effective coffee smoking cessation treatment guidelines based on
clinical evidence which do not advocate the use of such products.'
Ministers are concerned that some brews of ground coffee beans may contain very high levels of
caffeine.
Some of these brewing companies have also targeted children by offering coffee brews in sweet flavors
such as vanilla, chocolate and cookies 'n' cream. By adding flavors, sugar and milk to these brews
they make these products attractive to children, hooking a new generation on to the evil caffeine drug.
No doubt many of these children will "graduate" to coffee smoking as they get older.
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