Wallstreet journal article

[Elnroth]

There was an article in the Wallstreet Journal over the weekend titled "Vice's New Lame Devices" authored by Holly Finn. It features a picture of an ego style battery with a ce4 style clearomizer. The articles only real mention of ecigs is in reference to the amount of businesses blu and njoy did last year. There is much more talk about something called pluming, which involves heating tobacco leaves, I'm assuming this device is more commonly used for heating other things. This article is conveying negativity towards ecigs without actually giving any information about them. The article resulted in me having to defend myself to my parents when they handed me the paper and said,"look what the wallstreet journal says about ecigs," and so on.


I would link the article, but wsj wants you to log in to read it. Maybe someone else has access.

 

[tommy2bad]

Pluming is a rumour at the moment, a device to heat tobacco so providing nic without smoke. It's not exactly a vapourizer like the ones for medicinal administration of a well known medicinal plant. It's in development for about 2 years atm and I can't see it coming to market anytime soon. When it dos'e it will be a new tobacco product, not an alternative to smoking.
I think they will want to see if harm reduction gets embraced as a policy before committing a marketing budget to this while they can buy out ecig companies.

 

[Petrodus]

Interesting !!

 

[teissenb]

I don't want to start any arguments when I say that Ploom is not a rumor and the product is definitely on the market. I am holding one in my hand right...now. I have not yet done any research on them other than to have one here for casual study.

 

[Petrodus]

I'm going go out on limb here and suggest there will be many
who will be interested in conducting casual studies.

 

[TomCatt]

There was a thread around here somewhere , a while ago, about this vaporizer.

http : //www(dot)ploom(dot)com/pax

 

[firechick]

I remember the product coming to market. Posh "tasting" parties, hip events designed to cause a lot of interest. If memory serves me it was a gas powered device using little aluminum "pods" of tobacco and flavors. There were a few posts on how to refill the pods with carto filler and eliquid. Looks like they have an electric model these days.

 

[tommy2bad]

Ahh I remember the Plume now, a sort of vapourizer that needed pouches of product to use like the expensive coffee maker George Clooney has.
I'm mixing it up with the rumored smokeless cigarette BAT have hinted at.

 

[firechick]

lol. You're right on, tommy. Keureg for tobacco snobs.

 

[YKruss]

I remember those too.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/246177-ploom-ever-heard.html

And a video from Tropical Bob:

 

[tommy2bad]

This is the company that I was thinking off, juyst reading their 'about us' gives me the shivers. Too much talk off medical authorization.
Nicoventures | A Healthcare Company Focused on Licensed Nicotine Products

 

[Petrodus]

There's a lot of money to be made from those who smoke.
Everyone seems to want a "piece of the action"
if not the lion's share.

 

[hottierockstar]

..... like the expensive coffee maker George Clooney has.

LMAO! i dunno why it struck me so funny but it did