Inhalable caffeine hits the market

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Caffeine fix could now be as easy as taking a deep breath just about arrow shot is a canister about the size of a lipstick -- with.

You puff it it should say lemon lime flavored powder into the user's mouth and most of that powder as we understand it is caffeine.

The question is it safe.

Doctor Steven garner is an emergency medicine specialist and chairman of radiology at New York Methodist Hospital what do you think doctor -- -- You know for adults is a right already combining caffeine tablets over the counter so -- not a problem.

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Age restricted -- -- caffeine does stimulate the hard I'm I'm just wondered about I mean you're not supposed to.

Use more than three shots of this today as I understand that.

They're going to be kids sources could look at that in eleven -- -- the new -- his who knows what's there you know the next word of the day right what happens if view what happens if you ingested the entire model it wants friends over chronic you can you can make course -- -- -- or even a heart attack and who are we would not.

Not uncommon to see this in the late night emergency room settings.

-- kids that use it every day.

-- gonna get osteoporosis because -- you can absorb the calcium and them being magnesium that you need for absorption of bone so prolonged use of this product could lead -- kids again not an adults.

Putting kids also would disrupt their attention -- to get him in school denies.

They're -- attention.

Driven there and if it's described as an aerosol bit it's not designed to go directly into the lungs -- ride it's basically integrates a powder really -- -- -- -- layers of profit in this does not -- so -- tongue.

But it's the kind of thing the kids want to experiment with I know that the gonna go and I I went to try and find -- -- -- -- yet but once they start advertising for.

You know the kids are gonna if you know figure this is a good way to get a high.

I'm you know it's it's -- in the Olympics the caffeine because it's in a performance improving medication.

So is he is looked upon as a drug and it's addicting.

So you kids trying to get -- for the gonna get headaches and irritability but the argument is you could also drink you know eight cups of coffee.

Yes but the kid is less likely to drink a cup that's to get that caffeine and it can't fix a lot of effort and a lot of time in -- lot of running to the bathroom he can just take a little -- But there is going to be the wave of the future thorough and nothing I think that's doctor garner always conducted -- drug whose --

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