Having tried (and failed) to get free cigarettes I decided to attempt to freeload the next best thing - e-cigs.
And I enjoyed considerably better success with mechanical gaspers than the real thing.
Well I say "real thing", but thanks to those boffins at Vapestick, who kindly sent me 600 cigarette's worth of their product, tobacco-filled fags may no longer be top toke for us long-suffering and increasingly ostracised smokers.
Vapesticks are futuristic-looking contraptions, with lightsaber-like blue glowing tips when you take a drag, and best of all it actually feels like smoking.You even breathe out a satisfying volume of smoke-like water vapour - and you can blow vape-rings!
But, unlike cigarettes, these babies beat the smoking ban and have none of the horrible by-products like carbon monoxide, tar or smoke.
They come in regular and menthol disposable varieties, which have about 500 draws worth of nicotine, and a rechargeable version with mains and USB charging options.
And the product has celeb backing.
Leonardo DiCaprio vapes, as well as Katherine 'clean lungs' Heigl, Britney 'now not-so-toxic' Spears, Charlie 'winning' Sheen and Lindsay 'Li-Lo no tar' Lohan.
All these and many more enjoy a good pull on an e-cig for the same reason – they’re an excellent alternative to smoking and can be used anywhere where lighting up has long since been outlawed.
King of cool Johnny Depp was even seen ‘vaping’ away on a train in the movie The Tourist.
So if it's good enough for Jack Sparrow, it's good enough for me.
So if it's good enough for Jack Sparrow, it's good enough for me.
So how does it work?
Here's the science bit, concentrate...
* For more info go to http://www.vapestick.co.uk/
** Do you have a product I can freeload in exchange for a review?
Email: shamelessfreeloader@hotmail.co.uk
