Sign #424 of the Impending Apocalypse

From Slate:

After years of working in the 'leisure oxygen field' marketing oxygen for salons and spas in the U.K., businessman Dominic Simler came up with a novel idea: Why not create a device that would allow users to inhale vaporized alcohol along with oxygen? The machine Simler invented, called Alcohol Without Liquid, or AWOL, which takes hard liquor and disperses it as vapor in an oxygen mist, has been available at a small number of bars in the U.K. for several months; recently, a Greensboro, N.C.-based company called Spirit Partners purchased an exclusive license to sell the machines in the United States.

As the article goes on to say, this has a far greater potential to create addiction than the standard liquid form (and that form is no slouch at creating addicts). Always building a better mousetrap, I guess.