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indeed it felt like I was at the Grand Palais seeing Monet

Back in 1965, Gilbertthen a heavy smokerfiled a patent for a smokeless non-tobacco cigarette. An advertisement from the patent office boasted that his battery-powered cigarette uses no tobacco and produces no smoke and that the invention also has medical potential. You could argue that the timing for Gilberts idea couldnt have been worse: The 1960s were boom years for tobacco advertisinga time when cigarette companies could still get away with ads that boasted that More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette. Gilberts e-cigarette never went into production, despite his appeals to tobacco companieswhich we now know have been researching a healthier alternative to cigarettes since the 1950s

I cant recall a reference to Nabokov or Cocteau in an Oasis song

Yes, and the secret agent himself showed up for smoking cigars, but that was somewhat later