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I wasn't sure if this was a real thing, or if I had just dreamed it.  A quick google confirms that yes, you can in fact inhale your alcohol.  The alcohol vaporizers are sold by AWOL USA.  For the low, low price of $299, you too can inhale any 80 proof liquor.  Apparently it takes twenty minutes to inhale a half-shot quantity of liquor.  The company claims the additional oxygen mixed with the liquor reduces the incidence of hangover. Apparently there are drawbacks:

And some say the technology fizzles. A New Jersey bar owner who bought one of the first machines sold in this country sent his back, saying it made it too hard to get drunk.

That hasn't stopped at least 17 states from banning the inhalers.  (Including Florida.  Sorry.)

I think I'll stick with my usual delivery method:  A glass and ice.

Woah!  I just noticed an interview with the Kids In The Hall over at The Onion.  They're back together and on tour with new material.  I went down to Dallas to see them when they did their first round of post-breakup live shows sometime around 2000.  Those shows were pretty much live productions of sketches from the TV show, but were still pretty funny. 

It sounds like this tour is going to be all new material, and they're coming to Florida.  (Orlando Thursday, 5/22 and Clearwater Friday, 5/23)  Both are a bit of a drive, but I think I may have to head up to Tampa for the Friday night show.