Philip Morris's electronic cigarette!?

[P4C0]

I found this article but is dated from December 11, 2007. Has anyone seen it? is this still active?

Smoking device has Quit fuming - National - theage.com.au

[Scottbee]

It's a lot different than the PV's that we're familiar with:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2 FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN %2F6810883

[YKruss]

Nice to know, but this product will not help our battle with FDA in spite of that the patent was issued in 2002 and could be a subject to grandfathering ecigarette - PM didn't use any type of nicotine infused liquid but a specially designed cigarettes to be used in this device.

[suhrim21]

what I dont understand is why would you buy it its no healthier and it uses a "special" cig. so you still get all the same crap thats in them in the first place.

[Scottbee]

Nice to know, but this product will not help our battle with FDA in spite of that the patent was issued in 2002 and could be a subject to grandfathering ecigarette - PM didn't use any type of nicotine infused liquid but a specially designed cigarettes to be used in this device.

Uh.... no.

The Ruyan design and patents are completely different than the PM device. There is no "grandfathering" and it is a completely different concept and implementation. As a matter of fact, the PM design is in the "tobacco product" league, where the atomized-liquid PV is not.

[IsxFun]

They want to patents

[hoogie76]

That thing looks like a 1980's cell phone!

[jj2]

Yeah, P M sales these things and cig too---the cost of using tobacco gets higher.

[Warhorse]

weird, can you imagine trying to carry that thing around

[Archer74]

That thing looks like a 1980's cell phone!

LOL! they said, "about the size of a cell phone"... I keep looking at the pic and ...