Smokeless Chip Card [Archive]

Alex DeLarge

5th February 2007, 06:37 AM

I just saw a new infomercial (from the same company that sells the "BioStabil 2000" ) for a product called the Smokeless Chip Card. They claim this product reduces the amount of tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, etc. in your cigarettes, making smoking less unhealthy and easier to give up. It does this by "using a magnetic field" (of course) to make the molecules in the cigarettes "vibrate" so tar and nicotine will "burn up completely" so "less harmful substances will get in your lungs when you inhale." This all has been "scientifically tested" at multiple universities of course.
The Smokeless Chip Card supposedly will only work for 3 years for some reason, (it has no battery) and costs 30 Euros.

http://www.telsell.com/shopping.asp?MN=PRI-4588&CNT=NL&LAN=NED&UID=07020514021436

It seems incredible that these people are able to make such strong (and potentially dangerous claims) and get away with it, but they are also still advertising and selling the "BioStabil 2000" despite the fact that it has been exposed as a fraud for years, so apparently they can.

Mojo

5th February 2007, 09:33 AM

Here's another one (http://adrianaco.com/). :mad:

They were ordered to withdraw printed adverts making substantially the same claims as the website as a result of an ASA adjudication (http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/non_broadcast/Adjudication+Details.htm?Adjudication_id=40904) last year, but unfortunately this doesn't apply to claims made on their website.

Orangutan

5th February 2007, 09:35 AM

They Don't get away with it in the UK.

http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/non_broadcast/Adjudication+Details.htm?Adjudication_id=40904

But It's like Whack-a-mole trying to get these websites shut down. One goes down, two pop up!

Edit! Ah mojo beat me to it.

Mojo

5th February 2007, 09:53 AM

Actually, their website was down for a while after the ASA adjudication. I originally found it in Google's cache.

I don't know whether it was just coincidence or that they didn't immediately realise that the ASA doesn't concern itself with claims on websites.

ClintonHammond

6th February 2007, 09:06 AM

This is a fine example of the sort of thing I refer to as an "Idiot Badge"

Q-ray is another.... as is Head-On

Schneibster

6th February 2007, 01:20 PM

I'm surprised they didn't claim that it was due to "resonance."

Alex DeLarge

7th February 2007, 03:56 AM

Has anyone actually looked at these cards? What are they, magnets? Just plastic?