I recently bought my second vape device.
The first was a pseudo-pack of cigarettes manufactured in China and sold in Japan. It had one cigarette with a battery in the main body, a dozen fluid filled tips and a rechargeable battery in the cigarette pack. I bought it in Tokyo about six years ago.
The vape machine in the photo is my most recent purchase. The main body is a rechargeable battery that has two USB hubs, it has a separate unit for the fluid and heating element and can be set to any range of voltage and amperage for the heating elements. The battery can be used to charge my smartphone too.
When I bought this vape machine I found another customer buying many feet of heating element wire. He is building a whole array of homemade vape machines.
Let me pause and say that I'm not a smoker. I will join a friend on the porch to smoke one cigarette for conviviality reasons. I will smoke a good cigar for the same reason.
What fascinates me is the steady evolution of the vape technology. The machines are becoming more interesting and more complex. The variations in the delivery of nicotine are becoming greater as people explore this technology.
It appears to me to be like the early days of the airplane when experimental people and competent engineers found a new field in which to apply their genius.
I am enjoying watching this and trying to understand it.
Right now, two major cigarette companies are merging, Reynolds and Lorillard. They are both focusing on the future of the vape devices.
There are over 100 different solutions and flavors for which dissolved nicotine is available. The nicotine solutions are available in multiple levels of concentration.
In the social realm, people who use the vape machines know that there is no negative research on nicotine and they are 100% certain that the second hand vapor is not even smelled by people around them.
That means we have the same thing we had with early marijuana hippie users. The users know that the non-users are basing their hysterical reaction on ignorance and blind ideology. These are the social ingredients that will make vape users into rebels.
This may be the future for tobacco use.