Origins of e-cigs... ...NOT!

[Unperson]

This post is just for fun. About 10 years ago, my wife and I worked for a company that sold hi-tech equipment for major manufacturing companies around the world. One of the companies we sold to was a major tobacco company in the U.S.A. (not saying who, but everyone knows them.) Because of our relationship with the company, we had an inside connection on some of the R&D projects they were working on. One of these projects was an early version of a smokeless cigarette.

Unlike personal vaporizers, this unit used stubby cigarettes filled with tobacco and a cotton filter. The premise was similar. You would place these "stubs" into a battery operated device that was approximately 5 inches long, 2 inches wide, and an inch deep. A heating coil would heat the tobacco allowing you to take a drag.

It was next to impossible to get a good hit off of it. What you were able to draw from it tasted awful and unlike pv's, you exhaled actual smoke as if you were smoking a real cigarette. Essentially, you were still smoking real tobacco, even if it tasted like a dried yak turd heated on a charcoal briquette. You could only get about 10 hits off it before you had to swap out stubs.

Still, I remember that device and thinking, "Hey, this is the future of smoking!" I'm sooooo glad personal vaporizers have come along to replace that primitive battery operated cancer toy.

Just thought I'd share this memory.

 

[Shortstuff116]

That is a very interesting story! It almost sounds like they were trying to make a match-less or lighter-less cigarette more for convenience than anything else. Kinda glad that never came along too.

Loving my PV and don't need any other cancer-toys from big tobacco!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[biophox]

Essentially, you were still smoking real tobacco, even if it tasted like a dried yak turd heated on a charcoal briquette.

Just thought I'd share this memory.

Still lmao!

Im soooooo glad im using my PV and not one of those!