I read the Next update, Deewal. This
device -- it looks like something Janty would dream up -- has been under development now for a few years. I don't believe it has ever been in production. VERY different from Big Pharma's nicotine inhaler.
I must rant about one point in the otherwise fine article: Why do people extrapolate today's health statistics into a future 20 or 50 years down the road AND NOT CONSIDER MEDICAL AND HEALTH ADVANCES YET TO COME?
Does anyone believe we will not defeat cancer in a decade, two decades? Does anyone believe we will not learn how to trigger new cell growth to replace cancerous cells? Does anyone believe we will not grow replacement organs for transplant? Name the condition, the researchers are working on a solution. A report a few nights ago concerned a treatment for all cancers that is two years away from public availability. Who will be the last to die of cancer? We are closing in on that unfortunate soul.
I do not believe "one third of Chinese smokers under age 30" will die of a smoking-related disease. It takes 25 years or more for lung cancer to develop, according to researchers. What will computers do to help science advance cures that mock today's admonitions? I don't think anyone can completely predict the timetable, or type, of advances in medicine and treatment. I do think our present "poison, cut and burn" treatment will be seen as barbaric in a few decades.
That rant over, I do think inhalation of nicotine is the best way to replace smoking for nicotine addicts. Our devices accomplish that end result.