Ecigarette invention has progressed in ways that were probably not anticipated by many. Now, ecigarette makers are seeming racing against one another in designing and in purchasing variations of the electronic cigarette technology that has reached a billion dollar explosion.
Ecigarette invention has even created a new vocabulary due to its popularity that also causes the devices to be under the scrutiny of health officials. Officials have been backlashing and saying that they are worried about the impact of the latest smokeless devices.
From the research made by Thomson Reuters, it was shown that China with more than 300 million smokers leads in the manufacturing and developing of ecigarette technology. New versions are also being patented that even includes a computer-assisted pay-as-you-go device. Others have been formulated in order to deliver caffeine.
The Beginning Of Electronic Cigarettes
The original ecigarette invention was conceived in China by the Chinese medical researcher Hon Lik, who then smoked 20 cigarettes in a day. His father died from lung cancer and this inspired him to create something that will deliver nicotine to smokers in a much cleaner way. He came up with a battery powered device that could heat and vaporize eliquids laced with nicotine. This device can be used in much the same way as one would smoke combustible cigarettes by inhaling and exhaling the vapors.
Rise, Evolution And Popularity
Lik's invention has certainly gone a long way, but not as long as that of tobacco cigarettes. Still, the devices have become so popular that the market is now worth about $3.5billion. Just like other inventions, ecigarettes were not as satisfying as some of the newer devices today are.
Early devices were said to be unsatisfactory. Batteries were poor and eliquids really tasted so awful. Yet, many people have seen and realized the potential of ecigarettes. Creative and resourceful vapers took it to themselves to practice their tinkering skills and ingenuity to improve devices and products that were unsatisfactory.
Individual vapers made some changes to their devices in order to create something more powerful and longer lasting. Some with the knack for flavors formulated eliquid recipes that not only produced thick vapor clouds, but also tasted great and hit the throat smoothly yet satisfyingly.
It was most likely from these individual vapers that companies have gotten the inspiration to create more advanced vaping devices and products. It was from here that the commercialization of more innovative products was born.
Ecigarettes became more popular that Big Tobacco that once dismissed ecigarettes was now among the stakeholders seriously promoting its ecigarette devices. Each tobacco company that entered the vaping category used its particular strategy in getting ahead of the competition.
Lorillard, the third largest tobacco firm in the US used the strategy of purchasing a well established ecigarette brands: Blu Cigs, in 2012 and SkyCig about a year later. Reynolds American followed later by promoting its own developed brand, Vuse. Altria is said to be a late comer, but it combined the strategies of its competitors by developing its own brand, Markten; and buying another known brand, Green Smoke.
Meanwhile, Imperial Tobacco decided to get further ahead by snapping up ecig patents from the company of the ecigarette inventor in a $75million-deal. With this acquisition, Imperial had the opportunity to sue all of its competitors for an alleged patent infringement.
Imperial has decided to legally go after many of the leading ecig brands in the UK that mainly founded the ecigarette market such as V2 Cigs. Tobacco companies might be so intense in pushing their ecig brands, but vaping consumers have seemingly changed their preferences from cigalikes to more advanced mods and vaporizers that provide them with better satisfaction and better vaping experience.
Ecig And Vaping Variations
With a lot of ecigarette products in the market, the only way that a certain brand could stand out is by being ingenious and different.
Some companies have come up with the integration of BlueTooth features in ecigs so that the device could connect to a computer and perform tasks other than vaping. Some manufacturers have decided to fortify their products with caffeine vitamins and other supplements.
The sector continues to evolve and will continue to do so in order to provide smokers with the kind of satisfaction they are looking for.
