It seems like ‘vaping’ came out of no place. One day it didn’t exist and then a few months later everywhere we went someone was vaping. In reality, electro-mechanical tobacco are not new. Neither is the concept of using watery vapor to inhale smoked cigarettes herbs, perfumes, or mild-poisons. In fact, that has been going on for as long as mankind has been keeping a written record, maybe even longer. There are accounts of such techniques in ancient China, as well as in ancient Egypt. The Romans often smoked cigarettes in bathhouses, and in The indian subcontinent 1, 500 years ago, they called smoking sweet tobacco ‘shisha’.
One famous author, Jean Michael. Auel, in her famous series of novels describes several ancient cultures living in caves indulging in such smoke vaping rituals. Indeed, there is enough archeological evidence to support her historical novel storyline and depictions of such.
Vaping Patents and Pioneer technology
Fast forward to 1927 and Ernest Velupe received the first electro-mechanical tobacco patent. He called his creation the electronic vaporizer. There were many patents granted after that for various applications of these creation. In the early 60s, a young lady by the name of Herbert Gilbert came up with a contraption called the Electric Non-Tobacco Cigarette although it was not marketed to the masses, as current vaping products, devices, and paraphernalia are today.
In 2003 a Chinese company, Hon Lik, came up with the first real electro-mechanical tobacco device. Much like the style and types we see today. It made up of a plastic cartridge, a small battery, a liquid which can be compound, and a heating element using an ultrasonic atomizer. Although this sounds like a complex machine, it was easy and inexpensive to produce 電子煙. The funny thing is that no one in China much cared for it or even wanted to try it, even though the Chinese customers are among the biggest smokers in the world (cite below).
What was the original Function of Vaping Devices?
The original creation of this device was to allow individuals to quit smoking to save their bronchi and forestall smoking from eventually taking their lives by way of lung disease, lung cancer, and other lung ailments. It was created to solve a problem and done so with the greatest motives. The device is supposed to allow one to still have their which can be hit without the long-term problems associated with smoking traditional tobacco. Since which can be is approximately a 3-day addiction, meaning if you quit smoking for 3-days you don’t really need it anymore, the electro-mechanical tobacco made sense.
Realize also that vaping is much like smoking pot via a bong. It improves the speed of getting high and intensity. With a vaping device, one can get the which can be into their system quickly and relieve anxiety and stress which seems to be why humans like cigarettes.