We Asked the Inventor of the E-Cigarette What He Thinks About Vape Regulations

[Shirtbloke]

An interview with Hon Lik at vice.com.
We Asked the Inventor of the E-Cigarette What He Thinks About Vape Regulations
TL;DR - He's in favour of the deeming regulations and doesn't think people should DIY.

 

[AzPlumber]

Obviously, he is in a position to profit from the regulations.

 

[Shirtbloke]

He definitely seems to be a company man.

 

[mattymatt82]

Et Tu Brute?

 

[FishingBuffalo]

But he also recognized the regs could and will halt new innovations of vaping products.

 

[Rossum]

I find it amusing that he's still a dual user. He claims it's necessary because he's a developer:

Most of this time I’m using my e-cigarettes, but as a developer, because there are also new ideas, I can not lose the sense of taste [for cigarettes].

I call BS: Try something better than the crappy cigalikes you're hawking.

In terms of choices, as a pharmacist, ex-smoker, and developer, I am very keen to recommend closed systems [like cig-a-likes]. It’s not only because of my intellectual property, but more importantly it’s a product people consume through their mouths and inhale into their lungs, so the safety is very important.

So he admits that he's backing regulations at least in part because it will benefit him and the people he works for.

and doesn't think people should DIY.

'Cause he thinks that he and his employer know what's best for us.

 

[defdock]

Everything manufactured is good for us...

Thats why every thing natural thats ben consumed for decades/Millenniums is considered bad for you by the fda and other world health agencies....

Your forced to buy their "good for you" manufactured [removed].

Notice that nature has ben banned and/or twisted/moddified

 

[skoony]

Sold down the river,again.
Mike

 

[sofarsogood]

An interview with Hon Lik at vice.com.
We Asked the Inventor of the E-Cigarette What He Thinks About Vape Regulations
TL;DR - He's in favour of the deeming regulations and doesn't think people should DIY.

Everybody who vapes owes a debt of gratitude to him for coming up with the technology. He wasn't able to keep control of his inention. His views will reflect loyalty to his employer who is in a segment of the market where most of us don't go.

 

[pennysmalls]

Well that sucks. We can thank him for setting the wheels in motion I guess then warn him to not let the door hit him on his way out.

 

[retired1]

You also have to look at the "setting" for the interview. It was held in Bejing with an interpreter. It's highly doubtful he'd readily tout the free wheeling market in those settings.

Bear in mind, the government there owns the tobacco companies. Any impact on the money they rake in from tobacco sales going to vaping sales to the Chinese would not be looked upon favorably, nor would any statements from individuals advocating getting away from tobacco entirely.

 

[DC2]

I'm rescinding his Nobel Prize for now.
But he can get it back when the man takes his thumb off of him.

 

[pennysmalls]

So the man is literally stuck between a rock and hard place. I'll hold the door open for him but he does have to leave the room, at least for now.

 

[Mazinny]

He knows next to nothing about our segment of the market !

What do you make of the wide variety of e-liquid flavors on the market? Like dessert and candy flavors?
For the specific flavors you mentioned about candy and food, I have of course tasted these. However, I am a smoker so I don’t like it because I am used to the tobacco taste. But I also understand that the majority of e-cig consumers are ex-cigarette users, so the majority are not keen on this kind of flavor. Maybe a certain very small group of individuals would use this kind of flavor as a fashion product.

Actually, at least here in the US, the flavored products are really popular, even among former smokers. They tell me it helps them to stay off cigarettes.
Thank you for the information. I understand. I think probably that Americans consume more sugar products than the Chinese population. That might be a possible answer for this phenomenon.

 

[pennysmalls]

You're right Mazinny, either he doesn't know or he can't admit that he does.

 

[Mazinny]

Bottom line : The man works for Imperial Tobacco. He isn't going to say anything that is at odds with what's best for his company, i imagine.

 

[TVC70]

You also have to look at the "setting" for the interview. It was held in Bejing with an interpreter. It's highly doubtful he'd readily tout the free wheeling market in those settings.

Bear in mind, the government there owns the tobacco companies. Any impact on the money they rake in from tobacco sales going to vaping sales to the Chinese would not be looked upon favorably, nor would any statements from individuals advocating getting away from tobacco entirely.

That's what I was thinking. Even the interpreter was "arranged by his employer." Were one to find oneself in a private setting with this man, he may well have much more to say on the issue.

 

[Just Me]

I do hate that the world has become all about power and greed which prevents people from being honest and forthright sometimes (not him per se, but his working associations). But I will be forever indebted to him for his invention.

 

[sofarsogood]

What a shame he lost control of the invention. It's a situation where he could have enforced a reletively minor royalty on a huge industry and slowed nothing down. Then he wouldn't have to take sides. He could have used some of his megamillions to fund non preferential research to better the industry as a whole. Oh well.

 

[MacTechVpr]

What a shame he lost control of the invention. It's a situation where he could have enforced a reletively minor royalty on a huge industry and slowed nothing down. Then he wouldn't have to take sides. He could have used some of his megamillions to fund non preferential research to better the industry as a whole. Oh well.

Never be the one to originate the practical or sensible. People will flock in panicked madness for everything from the ludicrous to exceedingly superfluous. But to offer the elegantly obvious, of simplicity of service or function is to suffer the conjecture of every covetous critic feigning its prior invention, subjecting your every objection to ridicule without ever assigning you one shred of value but their unbridled emulation.

On the other hand, there is no control. The lines of property ownership have been muddied in favor of institution (by gov regulation). Perhaps why the bitter perspective of the originator. The guy who invented the auto coolant overflow canister had to fight decades to be recognized.

The creator is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Just sayin'.

Good luck.