[jccc (OP)]

Cigarette smoking killing ten million smokers per year. Science hasn't offer a good solution yet. This invention could help. How do you think?

[alancalverd]

Try "not smoking". Saves time, money and lives, and doesn't require any equipment.

[jccc (OP)]

One billion smokers not as smart as you, they need it.

[alancalverd]

No they don't. The death warning is printed on the packet and every smoker knows why he coughs up blood. They make an informed choice.

Next thing you know, people will be inventing safe guns, fireworks that don't, non-spicy curry, and parachutes that won't let you jump.

[jccc (OP)]

No they don't. The death warning is printed on the packet and every smoker knows why he coughs up blood. They make an informed choice.

Next thing you know, people will be inventing safe guns, fireworks that don't, non-spicy curry, and parachutes that won't let you jump.

If you smoke, this tool could help you live healthier. If you don't smoke, be appreciate your silence.

[Caleb]

I am for this device if it saves lives.

Simply demanding that people be "strong enough" will not suffice. People get addicted to smoking when they are very young, and tend to believe that they are invincible, or at least they are not worried about the long-term consequences of smoking.

Our cigarette purveyors rely and depend on this, forcing our government to promote these packets of death even into third world countries other than the United States.

In the United States, 440,000 people a year die of smoking-related problems. About 12 years ago, my mother was one of them, dying slowly with acute respiratory distress syndrome, as her lungs shut down and she could not take in oxygen. Her own mother died at 100 and she died at about 78. Far, far too early.

Let us look at the data--but if this saves lives, I am certainly for it.

Yours,

Caleb (in Portland, Oregon, where in July, marijuana will be legal--how interesting the data will be then)

[jccc (OP)]

The gov gives free condoms. Why not this device? Save a lot more lives.

[Don_1]

The gov gives free condoms. Why not this device? Save a lot more lives.

STREWTH!!! I wouldn't fancy trying to fit that on instead of a condom!!!


Not that I am boasting or anything like that, but it's bit on the thin side.

Mind you, it would save lives, in so far as it certainly prevent a whole lot of births.

"I can't get this damned thing on. Oh to hell with it, I'm going to sleep."

[jccc (OP)]

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland — Deep inside a modernist research center on the edge of a mountain lake here, automated smoking machines sample the future of nicotine.

Scientists at Philip Morris International are experimenting with ways to deliver nicotine — Big Tobacco’s addictive lifeblood — that are less hazardous than cigarettes but still pack the drug’s punch and smoking’s other pleasures. The smoking carousels, stuffed with burning cigarettes or glowing electronic devices, are among dozens of high-tech instruments being used.

The rush by Philip Morris and other tobacco companies to develop new ways of selling nicotine is occurring as more consumers are trying e-cigarettes, devices that heat a nicotine-containing fluid to create a vapor that users inhale. While only a small percentage of smokers have switched to the devices — experts say early e-cigarettes did not deliver enough nicotine to satisfy a smoker’s cravings — major tobacco companies are deploying their financial resources and knowledge in a bid to dominate a potentially huge market for cigarette alternatives.

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NEW CIGARETTE ALTERNATIVES OFFER MORE POTENT PUFFING

Tobacco companies and makers of electronic cigarettes are trying to make alternative nicotine-delivery systems more like cigarettes by, among other things, increasing nicotine levels. Here are some recent examples.

ALTRIA The company increased the amount of nicotine used in MarkTen, an electronic cigarette first sold in 2013, to 2.5 percent of its liquid content from the original level of 1.5 percent.
LORILLARD In a new version of blu eCigs, the company increased its nicotine content to 2.4 percent from 1.6 percent and redesigned an internal cartridge to deliver more nicotine.
R.J. REYNOLDS A reintroduction of a cigarette alternative first sold in the mid-1990s that heats tobacco rather than burns it and offers nicotine similar to a cigarette. Originally named Eclipse, it is now called Revo.
NJOY The company, which makes only e-cigarettes, is improving nicotine delivery in its product by using a pharmaceutical agent that increases delivery of the drug to the lower part of the lungs.
In recent months, several tobacco companies have ramped up nicotine levels in their e-cigarette brands, while others, like Philip Morris International, are starting to introduce slender, tubelike devices that will give users as much nicotine as the real thing by heating, not burning, tobacco. A few months ago, another cigarette maker, British American Tobacco, won approval from British drug regulators to market an inhalable nicotine spray.

“Our efforts are guided by two objectives,” said Dr. Patrick Picavet, the director of clinical assessment for Philip Morris International. “To develop a range of products that can be scientifically substantiated to reduce risks and that are acceptable substitutes for smokers who can’t or aren’t willing to quit.”

The entry of Big Tobacco into the e-cigarette business has set off alarm bells. Public health advocates, pointing to the industry’s documented history of deception about the risks of smoking, question whether cigarette makers want to develop devices to help smokers quit or find new ways to sell nicotine to young people who have never smoked.

“Developing products that satisfy a smoker’s addiction will increase the risk that they will be highly addictive to nonsmokers,” said Matthew L. Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C.

These are not Big Tobacco’s first efforts at mitigating tobacco’s considerable health risks. Beginning in 1980s, Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco made stabs at introducing “safer” cigarettes designed to produce fewer carcinogens. But those products never caught on, and the tobacco industry was seemingly caught flat-footed when upstart companies started selling e-cigarettes, mostly made in China.

The new e-cigarette industry is still tiny, with global sales this year of $5 billion compared with more than $800 billion for tobacco products, according to estimates by Wells Fargo Securities. Still, cigarette companies have hedged their bets by acquiring e-cigarette makers or stepping up their own research efforts.

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Along with replicating important sensory aspects of smoking, like taste, the biggest hurdle for the new devices, experts say, is delivering nicotine with the efficiency of a cigarette. Within seconds of taking a drag, a smoker feels the nicotine’s soothing effects because compounds that are produced when tobacco burns are perfectly sized to carry nicotine deep into the lungs allowing the drug to quickly reach the brain. Those same compounds, which are collectively known as tars, also cause cancer and other diseases.

By comparison, the type of vapor generated by e-cigarettes, experts say, is a less efficient carrier of nicotine than smoke. “There is more deposition in the mouth,” with vapor, said Jeffrey S. Gentry, the chief scientific officer of R.J. Reynolds, a division of Reynolds American.

A study published last year showed that one e-cigarette brand, Njoy, produced levels of nicotine in a user’s blood significantly lower than the amount produced by a cigarette like a Marlboro. As a result, e-cigarette users have frequently turned to larger devices known as vape pens that have bigger batteries that can produce more heat. But more heat to increase nicotine levels may also result in higher levels of toxins and carcinogens, experts say.

Tobacco companies have rushed to increase nicotine levels in their vapor devices.

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The New Smoke
Articles in this series examine the multibillion-dollar market for e-cigarettes and the consequences for public health.
A Hot Debate Over E-Cigarettes as a Path to Tobacco, or From ItFEB 23, 2014
E-Cigarettes, by Other Names, Lure Young and Worry ExpertsMAR 5, 2014
Selling a Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-CigarettesMAR 24, 2014
Where Vapor Comes Sweeping Down the Plain: E-Cigarettes Take Hold in OklahomaMAR 27, 2014
Some E-Cigarettes Deliver a Puff of CarcinogensMAY 3, 2014
A Bolder Effort by Big Tobacco on E-CigarettesJUNE 17, 2014
E-Cigarette Makers Are in an Arms Race for Exotic Vapor Flavors JULY 15, 2014
Dire Warnings by Big Tobacco on E-Smoking SEPT. 29, 2014
Maker of Snus, a Smokeless Tobacco, Says It's Less Harmful Than Cigarettes NOV. 30, 2014
China’s E-Cigarette Boom Lacks Oversight for Safety DEC. 13, 2014
About a year after Altria, which sells Marlboro, introduced the MarkTen e-cigarette brand, it increased the concentration of nicotine by about 65 percent. Blu eCigs, which is owned by Lorillard, has raised the nicotine output of its latest device by 50 percent through a variety of changes such as increasing its nicotine concentration and incorporating a larger battery to produce higher heat. Njoy, which only makes e-cigarettes, is using a pharmaceutical ingredient in a new version of its device that is supposed to increase vapor absorption in the lung and elevate nicotine delivery to about 70 percent of a cigarette, according to company data.

At Philip Morris International’s research center here, where about 300 scientists work, the nicotine chase is headed in several directions. The company says it has spent about $2 billion since 2008 researching cigarette alternatives with much of that effort focused on devices that use tobacco, but heat it, rather than burn it. Though the “safer” cigarettes that Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds introduced decades ago were also heat-not-burn devices — and flopped with smokers — the new products, Philip Morris officials say, are more technologically advanced.

Last month, Philip Morris International began test marketing the first of these new devices, called iQOS, in Japan. The device has three components; a pocket-size charger, a heating element and a short stick containing tobacco and other ingredients. The tobacco sticks are heated to a point below combustion, producing an aerosol-like vapor that has about same amount of nicotine as a cigarette. The company plans to introduce another heat-not-burn device in 2016; the heating element of that device can be lit with a match, like a cigarette, but the tobacco stick does not burn.

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Some public health researchers are critical of heat-not-burn products, saying that even heating tobacco produces carcinogens. Philip Morris International officials, like Dr. Picavet, counter that the safest nicotine delivery system has little value unless smokers want to use it. Heat-not-burn products, they argue, give consumers what they want with what appear to be lower health risks.

Company scientists are trying to quantify those risks through experiments that use a traditional cigarette as the toxic yardstick. The smoking machines in a laboratory here are used to draw on cigarettes and heat-not-burn devices and then send the resulting smoke or vapor through a series of tubes to a machine in an adjoining room. Cells resembling those found in the human lung are grown in the machine. After the smoke or vapor hits the cells, they are cultured and taken to other laboratories in the building where researchers examine them for biological or genetic changes.

Company officials report that the test results show far less cell damage with heat-not-burn-devices than with cigarette smoke — though they emphasize that laboratory tests do not translate into less disease in humans. To try to get at that risk, Philip Morris is also running clinical studies to measure the level of toxic compounds in the blood and urine of people who use the new devices.

The first study, conducted in 2013 in Poland, showed that levels of some of the most toxic contaminants in tobacco smoke were substantially lower in users of the iQOS heat-not-burn device than in smokers, though they were somewhat higher than in those who abstained. That study, however, lasted only five days. Scientists have not yet published results from a second study, which involved 160 people and lasted three months, company officials said. A third study, which is expected to last six to 12 months, has yet to begin, they said.

Assuming positive results from the human studies, Philip Morris International says it expects to eventually apply to the Food and Drug Administration for agency support for a claim that iQOS poses a “modified risk” to smokers when compared with a cigarette. If the device is approved, Altria will market it in the United States. (Philip Morris International was once part of Altria and the companies have an agreement that allows them to sell each other’s products.)

R.J. Reynolds is poised to release Revo, a rebranded version of its heat-not-burn device originally called Eclipse and first marketed in 1996. Last year, a Vermont state judge ordered the cigarette maker to pay $8.3 million in fines after a finding that the company had misleadingly claimed in marketing that the device could lower a smoker’s risk of contracting cancer, emphysema and other diseases. Those claims were made before the F.D.A. gained regulatory oversight of tobacco-related health claims. A spokesman for R.J. Reynolds, David Howard, said it plans to initially claim only that Revo “offers less cigarette smoke smell and no ashes” when compared with a cigarette. He declined to say whether the company plans to eventually seek a modified health risk claim with the F.D.A. for Revo.

Despite the proliferation of cigarette alternatives, industry critics fear that Big Tobacco, given its mastery of nicotine, will manipulate drug levels in new devices so that smokers end up using them, not as quitting aids, but as a way to get nicotine where smoking is prohibited. Public health experts also fear the devices will create a new generation of nicotine addicts.

Cigarette makers dismiss such suggestions. But the newest nicotine delivery devices hitting the market suggest the shape of things to come. Several years ago, Philip Morris International bought the rights to a novel form of inhalable nicotine. The idea was developed by outside researchers including Dr. Jed Rose of Duke University, the an inventor of the nicotine skin patch.

In the past, smoking replacement products like gums and patches have generally failed because they released nicotine too slowly or in amounts too low to satisfy smokers. And on one point, both cigarette industry executives and their critics appear to agree. If the newest alternative products are to succeed from both a financial and a public health standpoint, they will have to deliver nicotine at levels comparable to a cigarette.

[jccc (OP)]

I am a heavy smoker, 40 + years smoker, 4 packs Marlboro red a day down to 1 pack ryo. 3 years ago started vaping using hot air produced from a lighter and my pipe.

I learned vapor is much cleaner than smoke therefore healthier. But the buzz is not as good as smoking. That’s why few smokers converted to vaper even all kinds of e-cigs and vapes out there for so long.

Then I discovered vapor is pure nicotine, smoke contains oxidized nicotine. Oxidized nicotine vapor tastes much better than pure nicotine vapor and gives super buzz.

All vaporizers produce pure vapor, pure vapor is not oxidized, it tastes different and gives you different high than oxidized vapor as when you smoking. To get oxidized vapor, you need to heat vapor to flash point. So far no vaporizer able to do it. You need a vaporization chamber to vaporize material to produce vapor, then you need an oxidation chamber to oxidize that vapor to produce oxidized vapor.

I invented a tool to produce oxidized vapor, called oxidation vaporizer. A glass mouthpiece connects to a brass tube, load herb in the front part of the brass tube, heat the brass tube to 300 f to produce vapor, then heat the rear part of the brass tube to 500 f to oxidize that vapor, inhale oxidized vapor from the mouthpiece. Because brass has good heat conductivity, the heat from rear part brass tube heats up the herb in front part to keep producing vapor, you only need one flame to operate. If you want vaping high, simply only heat the loaded part.

My feeling/experience about herbs, 1 to 10 scale.
Smoking = taste 1, buzz 7, usage 5, health 1.
Vaping = taste 3, buzz 5, usage 4, health 8.
Oxi vaping = taste 10, buzz 10, usage 10, health 9.

DIY is easy.

80 mm long glass mouth piece, 8 mm OD. 4 mm or 5 mm ID.
40 mm long brase/silver/gold tube, 8 mm ID, .25 mm wall.

Load/push tobacco into the 10 mm long tip part of the brass tube, heat the rear part of the brass tube till you see white smoke come into the glass tube, start inhale and adjust heating time and inhaling speed, you want the vapor to be oxidized before inhale it. Easy to tell by taste, you won't miss it.

I am so much happier smoker now, hope the same to every smoker!

Vaping industry should use the same principle to make e-powered device to help smoker.

Med industry should do some research on oxidized nicotine gum etc.

Demo video

[jccc (OP)]

Sounds too good to be true.

Juice turn to wine?

YES my friends.

Oxygen is magic.

[jccc (OP)]

The gov gives free condoms. Why not this device? Save a lot more lives.

You people are blind or just ignore?

Show me a better idea?

[jccc (OP)]

anyone tried this? check out the comments.