New devices prevent people bumming cigarettes off you

(Credit: Crown7.com)

It's becoming harder for smokers to coexist with nonsmokers, what with all the nonsmoking in restaurants and bars. But if Crown7's smoke-free smoking devices catch on, a utopian society where smokers can "smoke" without pissing off everyone around them may yet exist.

The battery-powered devices use cartridges filled with nicotine, tobacco flavoring, water, and delicious propylene glycol to recreate the sensation of smoking. Instead of smoke, the "smoker" exhales a purportedly odorless vapor.

The device is available in three designs: cigar ($65), cigarette ($100), and pipe ($150).

According to the Crown7 site, each cartridge is the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes; five cartridges sell for $10.

For anyone still on the fence, it should be noted that each device comes with a "handsome case."

[Via Gizmodo.]