Smoke That Does Not Exist – A New Word In The Tobacco Industry

Update: September 16th, 2011

What do you call a puff of smoke that none other than you can sense? It could be a flash stroke. It could be a diesel engine pointing towards you. And it could simply be an electronic cigarette making vapour.

Seriously, the electronic cigarettes are slowly but surely taking over the tobacco market from the traditional ones. You would be surprised if you completely understand the mass and volume that this new 'toy' cigarette has taken over from its 'actual' counterpart. The overall transformation has been incredible.

Electronic cigarettes are believed to have originated in China. There are claims of similar technology getting used even before that in Europe and the USA, but no consensus has been attained till date. However, no matter where it originated from, the manufacturing hub today is in China like most of the products in the world. And the consumers are spread all over the world. This includes the USA, European countries and the forward-moving Asian countries.

There have been a number of recent controversies about whether electronic cigarette smoking can be considered as real smoking or not. It matter for you even if you are not a smoker. The reason is that it could still lead you to passive smoking. In fact, whether smoking an e cigarette inside an aircraft is acceptable or not has also been a debate both within the aviation industry and the general people. Again, the topic has been marred with disagreement and non-concurrence.

However, the bottom line remains that smoking e cigarettes is surely pushing its roots deeper into the society. The smokers no longer pity the lone and poor smoker of the electronic cigarette. These battery-operated devices are finding their way into the mainstream. And it is not only in the United States right from New York to Los Angeles or Seattle to Miami, it is happening all over the world. So if you see someone smoking in a non-permitted zone, beware before you report them ' they could be smoking an electronic cigarette rather than an actual one.