Vaping: Good or Bad? BT will clear that up soon enough.

[bruiser]

I recall some kind of e-cig being promoted back, I think, in the seventies. I don't recall the name, and I never saw one, only some ads.

 

[fray]

I got a pack of the eclipse back in like 2004. Tasted like a gym sock and hard to light.

 

[JustaGuy]

RJR's famous "smokeless" cigarette, Premier, heated and aerosolized tobacco to deliver nicotine (although no one was sure just how effective it was at doing this, much like PVs). It was clumsy and awkward (people actually had to be instructed on how to light it) so they took it off the market within a year. Not wanting to lose the billions they spent on development of Premier, they introduced version 2, Eclipse, in the 90s. This used a carbon tip to heat tobacco to give off a vapor; very little tobacco was actually burned in the process of smoking an Eclipse and no ashes. Regardless, the American Cancer Society argues it still produces carcinogens (true because it was using plant material with the famous 599 additives to produce the vapor). I'm not sure but I think Eclipse might still be floating around somewhere. So while RJR stuck to its beloved tobacco leaf it was the first company to introduce a product that used vapor instead of smoke to deliver nicotine to cigarette users. They just weren't clever enough to do it right.

You're right! Now that you mentioned it, I do recall some kind of smokeless cigarette back then but it got nowhere. Maybe that's why I forgot all about it. An experiment like that was also featured in that "Thank You For Smoking" movie.

 

[wdave]

I'm actually quite amazed that since the FDA ruling Big T hasn't jumped on board the vaping bandwagon. After all, they aren't stupid. They know which way the wind is blowing and it sure as heck isn't in favor of tobacco. They aren't worried about putting out a product that might compete with their cigs as the rush to put out snus shows. They have all the lab equipment to deal with anything related to tobacco and nicotine and they could be making a fortune with cartridges labeled Marlboro or Camel or Winston or Newport which, with all their resources, would actually taste like a Marlboro or Camel or Winston or Newport. So why oh why haven't they jumped on board the vaping bandwagon? IMO the answer is lawsuits. They've already been dragged over the coals once and they probably aren't keen on introducing a product the side effect of which are practically unknown. Which leads me to my point. I'll bet they're working on that right now, tons of white mice lined up in little boxes vaping PG and VG and tobacco extracts and flavorings, trying to determine if vaping is truly safer than smoking or just another Pandora's box of lawsuits and once they know we'll know too, for better or for worse.

It's not a bandwagon until people stay with vaping for a number of years. Be one that does.