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A fog machine, fog generator, or smoke machine is a device that emits a dense vapor that appears similar to fog or smoke. This artificial fog is most commonly used in professional entertainment applications, but smaller, more affordable fog machines are becoming common for personal use. Fog machines can also be found in use in a variety of ...
Theatrical smoke and fog, also known as special effect smoke, fog or haze, is a category of atmospheric effects used in the entertainment industry.The use of fogs can be found throughout motion picture and television productions, live theatre, concerts, at nightclubs and raves, amusement and theme parks and even in video arcades and similar venues.
Pump spray haze machines use electricity or compressed CO 2 to power a spray pump connected to a mixing valve, which draws in and atomizes the fluid. Pump hazers also includes machines which function in the same manner as a fog machine, pumping fluid into a heated chamber where it is vapourized to produce a cloud. Hazers which heat fluid to ...
A pipe tool is a small gadget designed to aid in packing, smoking, and emptying a tobacco pipe. There are three principal pipe tools: the tamper, the reamer, and the pick: [ 1 ] The tamper is a blunt instrument, either a simple dowel or shaped like the head of a nail.
Due in no small part to successful campaigning against tobacco use, sales of pipe tobacco in Canada fell nearly 80% in a recent fifteen-year period to 27,319 kilograms in 2016, from 135,010 kilograms in 2001, according to federal data. [4] By comparison, Canadian cigarette sales fell about 32% in the same period to 28,600,000,000 units. [5]
A meerschaum pipe is a smoking pipe made from the mineral sepiolite, also known as meerschaum. Meerschaum ( German pronunciation: [ˈmeːɐ̯ʃaʊ̯m] ⓘ , German for "sea foam") is sometimes found floating on the Black Sea and is rather suggestive of sea foam (hence the German origin of the name, as well as the French name for the same ...
Chalice, a pipe used by Rastafari in cannabis rituals; Chibouk, a long-stemmed Turkish tobacco pipe with a clay bowl, often ornamented with precious stones; Chillum (pipe), conical smoking pipe originally from India; Hookah, tall stemmed pipe in which the smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water, also known as a water pipe
American tobacco customs began to switch from the earlier pipe smoke to the cigar as mentioned earlier, as well as the great American western icon of the spittoon, which was linked to chewing tobacco. These latter two were considered a more coarse form of taking tobacco and, as such, were deemed very "American" in nature by Europeans as ...