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Misanthropy wrote:How about a rolled up bill?

Like I wrote up here: Some tricks depend on the smoke for misdirection, so rolled up bills or other "smokeless" objects won't do the trick in that case.

When demonstrating the Wonder Mouse it has always been part of the routine to make a cigarette rise out of the packet. I have had to abandon this because smoking is now politically incorrect and have substituted the fabulous spooky pencil instead. All this is explained in my wondrous book on the mouse that Tomo thinks I shouldn't advertise but I am doing so anyway just to annoy him.

I once was booked to do trillions of magic shows every week for the same kids. Eventually I ran out of material so out of sheer desperation did David Berglas's production of cigarettes even though you would think that would be a very tut-tut trick for kids.

They loved it and laughed their heads off as I produced each cigarette between my fingers. I was quite surprised by this and subsequently started to investigate doing it for kids using crayons. It worked but not half as well as the cigarettes.

I expect there is a moral to this but I am not sure what it is...............

Even if you can't smoke in public places anymore I still think you could smoke if you were doing street magic or at a party at the hosts discretion

a couple thousand years ago, throwing Christians into battle with seasoned warriors and big cats was considered entertainment... i guess we must accept change and move on.

...but surely if you can produce and vanish a cigarette. thats a prime excuse to say "well, if you can find any on me, i'll be glad to stop..." just as you vanish another lit cigarette...

im all for smoking/non-smoking areas...

governments though eh, if they're not selling you their legal drugs, they're banning you from using them...typical...

yes, you can buy a car, no you cannot drive it in the open air...

non-smoker by the way...

i'd quite like it if pubs installed an idiot-ban, whether i would get in or not is open to conjecture - but even so, it's the risk im willing to take...

These would be better bans for drinking establishments:
idiots
pub bores
aggression
overtly trendy haircuts
children
people with an excess amounts of shopping
people with no sense of personal space
smelly

give me a smoker over the above any day...

And another thing I don't understand is why they have bars at airports but you can't board a plane drunk yet they sell alcohol on the flight?

I am sure you can buy herbal cigerettes (the legal kind....shame on you for thinking that) which look like your regular tobacco cancer stick.
I remember hearing about them on a directors commentry for a film where the main actor smoked all the way through but was a non smoker.

I am sure if you can get hold of some of those and let the establishment know in advance that any cigarette used in a performance poses no threat. Either that or start work on a 10 minute routine with a crack pipe

Misanthropy wrote:
And another thing I don't understand is why they have bars at airports but you can't board a plane drunk yet they sell alcohol on the flight?

obviously because a bar is a place to have a drink not necessarily a place to get drunk. if you get on a plane drunk there is nothing they can do to change that. if you begin to get drunk while on a plane and create a problem they can stop serving you.

in certain head-shops you can actually buy the "shells" of real cigarettes to fill then with...well, whatever you so choose...

perhaps they might prove useful...mascotte i think the brand name is, well , at least one of them...

Talking to a magician earlier this year: he'd bought Tenyo's 'Infinititum' the black case in which no matter how many times you took a cigarette from it, it reappeared. Finally the case fills itself.
he wanted to use it with kids!!!!!! Help. The cigs were those tightly rolled up pieces of paper which looked like cigs. Brian Nye, the original owner of Practical Magic ( before Jeremy & Cheryl) used to sell them as practice cigs for a routines. I bpought several packets, as i don't smoke but cig. manips looked good.
Anyway i suggested to this Non PC magician!!!! present them as slim sticks of chalk. yes this is still used inspite of Whiteboards.
Allen