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Politicians are no strangers to hot air, which may explain why so many are rushing to condemn a new gadget that enables users to inhale vaporized alcohol. The contraption, known as AWOL (short for Alcohol Without Liquid), looks like an asthma inhaler and reputedly gets booze to the brain faster. Eighteen states have introduced legislation banning the device, and last week Kansas became the second state (after Colorado) to sign its bill into law. "This is the equivalent of putting a funnel at bars, inviting people to get drunker quicker," says Florida state senator Mike Haridopolos, who cosponsored that state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Taste, Not Filling | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...shot of liquor takes 20 minutes, according to Morse. "It's nearly impossible to get drunk with it," he says. A bar owner in West Paterson, N.J., even returned the gizmo because it didn't offer enough of a buzz. Mothers Against Drunk Driving president Wendy Hamilton considers vaporized alcohol a low priority compared with getting states like Florida to enact stricter seat-belt laws. "Legislatures," she explains wearily, "get distracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Taste, Not Filling | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

Women who smoke and show signs of an alcohol problem are more likely to have been the victims of violence by an intimate partner, according to a study conducted by Harvard researchers and released earlier this week...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study Ties Violence to Smoking | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...bars are everywhere. In the highly improbable surroundings of Zhongdian's old quarter - known in Tibetan as Dukezong - there are now some 25 cocktail bars. "If I had a dollar for every time somebody came in to just look, I wouldn't need to sell alcohol to pay the rent," says Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shangri-Bar | 5/12/2005 | See Source »

...officers check IDs at tailgates and confiscate them. Over the past ten years, he says students have learned to adapt the tailgates and make them, for the most part, alcohol-free...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Captain Confronts Drinking | 5/6/2005 | See Source »

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