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In Florida they call them Bricks. They add chili, various "pouched" meat (tuna, salmon, etc.), cheese, broken chips, etc.
Smoked 60 a day, from around 2001 til August of 2012. Began using an e-cig in August of 2009, off and on again until I found what worked for me. Now 1,242 days without a cigarette.

No, it's not for everyone and it won't help everyone quit. But, as it says right in the article, no business or brand markets it as a smoke cessation device. Only end users are making those claims. Furthermore, it's not clarified on the page as to whether or not people who continued vaping were considered to not have quit smoking.

Re:The Danger of E-Books on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:32AM (#10399538)
^ I don't subscribe to the idea that it's not ok in the first place.
Re:The Danger of E-Books on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:30AM (#10399520)
Furthermore, let's not say that copying an ebook is the moral equivalent of storming a vessel, murdering and raping everyone onboard, plundering the remains and then sinking the thing into the sea. Let's just agree that those two are separate things.
Re:The Danger of E-Books on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:17AM (#10399429)
>No. Piracy is just fucking theft, period.

Tell that to the cable companies and radio stations that got their start the same way. Nearly every major media distribution channel in this country at least was founded on piracy. [Source: http://goo.gl/fN62uy]

Re:The Danger of E-Books on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:02AM (#10399309)
I own several kindle devices, have never purchased an ebook through Amazon, and do not connect any of them to the internet for any reason. It's a battery hog, and I have no desire to buy books directly from the device, and if i need to access the web, i have a plethora of other devices capable and at hand.

Furthermore, I don't allow myself to restricted to DRM'd books. In the event I was unable to acquire a book in a non-DRM'd format, I'd purchase the book (using a prepaid credit card, as i do with all my internet transactions) and strip the DRM. If it was unavailable in that manner, then I would purchase a physical copy of the book. But that is not a deterrent for me. I own a few ebooks that don't exist in physical form (at least not for mass market to my knowledge) and I own a few physical books that do not exist in digital format (once again, to my knowledge). Neither will kill the other, they can both co-exist happily, and in my case, they do. I carry my kindle keyboard everywhere and often time have at least 2-3 paperback books on me as well. As a matter of fact, I am currently reading a book on my kindle, another in paperback form and a third is being read to me on Audible. Not all at the same time mind you, but concurrently.