Ill tell you what, as someone who has gotten to breath tear gas, its not something Id stick around in. Burns the eyes, evacuates the nasals, and when you breath it it takes about a minute to recover sufficiently.
As someone who got to inhale a couple lungfuls while also in the middle of a pneumonia infection, [wheezing scream]!
Also no, considering they showed the tattoo artist and her "client" inside the box without complications during the ad, I can't imagine it's actually teargas... I have a hard time believing they'd be THAT stupid.
But... "Very unpleasant" to be in the cloud of smoke? I honestly don't know.
I assume the company isn't real, and they're just wanting people to get used to smoke inside houses as a non-threatening idea to cover for arsons.
I don't have any proof of that, but I assume it anyway, because it's certainly cooler than the real story.
Unfortunately, they're a real company and have been around for years...
They also sell smoke detectors.
The company's store page says the smoke is "DOCUMENTED to be harmless for both humans and animals", and confirms that the smoke cannon can only be activated by a remote operator, who will "verify that it's a real burglary through the use of images, video and sound from your alarm system when the alarm is triggered".
So, yeah... You too can have a remote-activated smoke cannon in your home, fully under the control of the fellow who has complete surveillance of your house!
Which... Y'know... Come to think of it, if something gets stolen while the burglar is on camera, then you have a clear insurance claim for that item. If there's smoke obscuring the image, you can't PROVE that the item disappeared during that burglary, so the claim can be contested.
I smell insurance fuckery.