Alcohol inhaler outlawed by House panel

A House panel has approved a bill to outlaw alcohol inhaler devices which allow people to inhale alcohol instead of drinking it.

Rep. Merle Smith said several other states have outlawed the machines which are increasingly popular at bars.

The machines are a way for people to get drunk faster, Smith said. Rep. Mick Mulvaney argued that the prohibition would be a slippery slope.

"I'm just worried that we're going to outlaw shot glasses next" because they deliver liquor faster to a person's blood stream. The bill next heads to the full House.

Comments

[Michael Ulrich]

Grow up South Carolina, if shot glasses are next just say no. Can't you do what's right? Drinking alcohol should be for pleasure, not to get drunk. Oh, if this passes, it doesn't mean they will outlaw driving vehicles, by the way.