AWOL - A new way to drink?

Ok well it's not new or really drinking, but a company in the States has come up with a vaporizer which allows alcohol to be inhaled and ingested via the lungs. The alcohol is mixed with oxygen and since it gets transmitted to your blood stream faster you have a higher amout of intoxication with a lower dose - apparently one shot, taken over 20 mins will give you a "mild euphoria". One shot drunk = no hangover. I'm sure bars and liquor companies won't like that as you'll have a bunch of people spending what max $10 - $15 bucks to get plastered.

I saw a piece on this in the WSJ (which I won't link cause you need a subscription), but anyway what caught my eye was not so much the vaporization (inhaling alcohol, a recent topic here on R4NT, would have the same impact), but rather that there is a movement already to get this sucker banned.

Apparently Kentucky was one of the first states to ban it - I don't know if that is because of the big Jack Daniels lobby there and the realization that this could really crimp their sales... but beyond that, why would you ban something like this? You take alcohol - legal, check, mix it with compressed oxygen - legal, check, and vaporize it, also legal. But no no, the result is illegal in some states now...

AWOL stands for (alcohol without liquid). If may help their rep if their website didn't suck so bad but anything that US legislators try to ban immediately must be worth checking out. Been around since 2004, so the movement to get it banned, like anything, will cause a much higher percentage of people to be interested in the product.