Inhaled

Last August the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency launched an investigation into Ubertan Sunless Tanning System. The name is suitably elusive, and unless I tell you that this was a nasal spray designed to aggravate the body's melanin hormones into rapid, albeit temporary, replication-thus, resulting in a tan, you would not guess of its olfactorial design. No ingredients were cited on the bottle's label, and in spite of this, many a pale-complected insisted on significant use (i.e., inhalation) of the product.


This week, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warming concerning a caffeine inhaler, AeroShot, boutiquely intended for college coeds' extended hour living schedules. Perhaps surprisingly cogent for a federal document, the letter summarizes the concern: "A product cannot be intended for both inhalation and ingestion because the functioning of the epiglottis in the throat keeps the processes of inhaling and swallowing separate." Makes sense, unless you can't keep your eyes open through anatomy class long enough to learn how the epiglottis functions (or where it resides for that matter).

 

In conjunction with the college-kid emphasis, additional concern has been expressed about how AeroShot will or will not team with alcohol; which reminds this blog that it seems high time (pun incidental) for an Animal House remake, perhaps the AeroShot Hazing sequel?

In simultaneous summary and conclusion, one has to wonder, does it smell like coffee?

Life sometimes can be inhaled.
  Inhaled: --verb
to breathe in