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HUFFING GUILT-FREE CHOCOLATE

If you’re such a chocoholic that you wish you could free-base the stuff, a new product will let you come pretty close.

Le Whif (right) is a new chocolate-consumption gadget that lets people breath in chocolate instead of eating it.

Invented by Harvard Professor David Edwards, Le Whif is about the size of an asthma inhaler and the shape of a lipstick tube.

Edwards said Le Whif actually helps people eat less — with no calories!

“Over the centuries, we’ve been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter and shorter intervals,” he said on Le Whif’s Web site. “It seemed to us that eating was tending toward breathing, so, with a mix of culinary art and aerosol science, we’ve helped move eating habits to their logical conclusion. We call it whiffing.”

Le Whif — which comes in mint chocolate, raspberry chocolate, mango chocolate and milk chocolate — sells online at lewhif.com, at $51 for a case of 24.