Yahoo News - Liquor Inhaler Debuts Alcohol-Free in NYC
NEW YORK - Fruit-infused water and Gatorade — not vodka and whiskey — were the inhalants offered at the Manhattan debut of a controversial new device that lets drinkers take vaporized shots of alcohol, and opponents want to make sure the machines stay liquor-free.

The machine, the Alcohol Without Liquid vaporizer, or AWOL, lets its users inhale liquor by mixing it with pressurized oxygen. The machine's makers say it takes about 20 minutes to inhale one vaporized shot, leaving users euphoric, but not drunk, without the aftereffects of alcohol.

Existing state law is not the only obstacle the machine faces. Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano has said he wants the AWOL machine prohibited for fear it will attract underage drinkers, and State Sen. Carl Kruger has pledged to introduce legislation to ban it.

Kruger sent a letter to Attorney General Eliot Spitzer saying the machine, which is manufactured in England, "is a disaster waiting to happen." Kruger called it a "new form of pipe smoking."

How do you avoid the "aftereffects"? Does that mean no hangovers? And this "euphoric, but not drunk" claim....hmmm, even this ex-drinker is intrigued, but skeptical.