How far would you go to get your coffee and cigarette fix?

Just how far would you go to get your coffee fix? And exactly how desperate are you to get a morning cigarette in? Well some…

Smoking coffee is a way some people get a quick jolt of caffeine. (Shutterstock)

Just how far would you go to get your coffee fix?

And exactly how desperate are you to get a morning cigarette in? Well some people have found a way to save time–by combining the two habits.

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That’s right, smoking coffee is the latest trend to hit the teenage demographic, with young adults rolling coffee grounds into cigarettes or putting them into pipes to get a quick caffeine rush.

While it’s not quite as mainstream as some other bizarre teenage trends, not much is known about this habit or what the potential health consequences of it may be.

Most experts caution that smoking coffee will likely result in a caffeine overdose, a condition characterized by vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, difficulty breathing, and irregular heart beat.

For one reporter from HBO’s VICE investigators, smoking coffee was a mistake he won’t likely make again.

In the name of research, Jules Suzdaltsev took it upon himself to try this new trend and document his experience.

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“I pulled out my coffee grinder, cigarettes, rolling papers, a cotton ball, and George W. and Laura Bush rolling tray, and I mixed a hefty portion of ground hazelnut-flavored dark roast in with my tobacco,” he wrote on the VICE blog.

“I thought I could make out the faintest hint of hazelnut, but beyond the artificial flavoring, there wasn’t much of a difference from a regular cigarette.”

Suzdaltsev wasn’t content with his initial experiment, and because there’s reports of teenagers smoking coffee in pipes, he decided it was only reasonable to try this method as well.

After the initial puff, he noted pressure behind his eyes that progressed into a migraine.

His experiment continued throughout the day, and the VICE correspondent slowly developed his exposé  to include smoking coffee.

By the end of his investigation, he had made a decision to never smoke coffee again.

“For the next few hours, I felt like shit,” he stated at the end of the blog.

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“My closest experience was taking one too many Ritalin back when I was 17. That anxious, nauseating, sluggish, unfocused forced concentration was one of my worst early “bad trips,” he said and added “and that ended with my lying on the cool tile floor of my bathroom waiting for it to pass”

“I thought about doing that now, but the bathroom in this apartment was some sort of sticky vinyl. The headache had blossomed into radiating waves of tension, and I felt like throwing up. I wanted to punch that kid on YouTube.”

After eventually sleeping off the effects of smoking coffee, Suzdaltsev eventually felt better. Still, he noted that the experience was, in his opinion, one of the most senseless ways of getting caffeine into the body.

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Thankfully, though smoking coffee has made it to the realm of public awareness, teenagers seem to be less enthused about it when compared to other dangerous habits, like smoking alcohol.

Experts indicate this could be because caffeine, while it does alter functions within the body, does not provide the hallucinogenic effects most teens associate with a “high.”

 

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