US: Agency regulates booze, smokes
US: Agency regulates booze, smokes
Dec 9, 2012 6
(Tennessean) - Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government’s heaviest smoker.
It’s a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed aluminum and gasping smoke holes, like a retrofit of equipment used on an Industrial Revolution production line. It can smoke 20 cigarettes at once and conclude which are unsafe because they are counterfeit and which are unsafe merely because they are cigarettes.
Down the hall, a chemist tests shiny flecks from a bottle of Goldschlager, the spicy cinnamon schnapps, to make sure they’re real gold. A government agent was sent out to stores to buy it and hundreds of other alcoholic drinks randomly chosen for analysis.
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