Duty free cigarettes

In daily life or simply logging on internet to make some purchases every lucky person had met expression “duty free”.

Marlboro Miles

Marlboro Miles is another fag ad campaign that famous manufacturer of smoking products Philip Morris, had used for upholding its famous Marlboro cigarettes.

Cigarette packs

Cigarettes, cigarettes, a lot of brands of different types. Sometimes it is hard to choose one from multitudinous of fags that are presented on tobacco markets ...

Famous smokers

Usage of cigarettes was highly used in all times in different sphere of life. Sometimes namely usage of cigarettes ...

Virtual Smoking

Nowadays technologies advanced to amazing level. There are created different know-how and virtual systems.

Now comes time to smoking division. Researchers from University of Georgia created a project of virtual test of smoking people.This project was sustained by National Institute on Drug Abuse that offered a grant of $130,000 to Patrick Bordnick, assistant professor of social work at the University of Georgia that will create program where will be studied peoples responses to stimuli such as offered a smoking product at a party or seeing a pack of cigarettes, coffee or alcohol, etc.

Anti-fag equipment consists of a black plastic helmet with a video screen and headphones that covers the patient's eyes and ears. And a band placed around the chest monitors heart rate and measures physiological responses such as anxiety and mood levels.

Program consists of virtual environment that encourage smokers to lit cigarettes. For example, they go through a series of rooms where they are provoked to light up a tobacco product. First, smoking participant enters into a room where such statements as «All I want right now is a cigarette» and «I am going to smoke as soon as possible» pop up and is answered with a video game joystick.

Another room is designed with tables where are tobacco ashtrays with burning cigarettes and computer-generated smoke, butts, lighters, packs of cigarettes (which can be changed to any color to look like a certain brand), bottles of alcohol and coffee percolating.

Last sting is most provocative. It is a party where everybody discusses, smokes cigarettes and drinks beer. Computer atmosphere is sustained by music and clinking of glasses. It is created so real that at definite moment you believe that it is true. Partygoers offer you a fag, and if it's refused the first time, the cigarette’ offers become stronger.

As it was sustained this virtual “game” was created for studding smokers’ reactions in different situations that can be frequently met in real life.Goal of this “smoking” game is to sell the nicotine addiction program to therapists and grants will be invested in creation of same programs to help treat drug and alcohol addictions.

If this project will give affirmative results Bordnick hopes to receive another grant to develop a treatment program.