Tobacco-less Cigarettes are Smokin in China

It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette but it isn’t bad for your health.

Electronic Cigarette (Hong Kong)

A Chinese company marketing the world’s first “electronic” cigarette hopes to double sales this year as it expands overseas and as some of China’s legions of smokers try to quit.

Golden Dragon Group Ltd’s Ruyan cigarettes are battery-powered, cigarette-shaped devices that deliver nicotine to inhalers in a bid to emulate actual smoking.

“The nicotine is delivered to the lungs within 7 to 10 seconds,” said Scott Fraser, Vice President of SBT Co. Ltd., the Beijing-based firm that first developed the electronic cigarette technology in 2003 and which is now controlled by Golden Dragon.

“It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette, it even emits vapor. In many ways, it is like an actual smoking experience, and that’s what makes us different.”

The cigarettes sell for around 1,600 yuan ($208) apiece and are already available in China, Israel, Turkey, and a number of European countries, but not yet the United States.

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4 Comments »

Comment by yavuz buyukturan
2007-06-14 14:02:13

I have a medical firm in Turkey.We want to sell this product (electronic cigarette) in Turkey.

 
Comment by Alexander Starshinov
2007-07-04 11:24:53

Please inform the exact given firms of the manufacturer of electronic cigarettes.

 
Comment by Heather
2007-07-18 19:45:41

I guess it is better then actual cigarettes.

 
Comment by Patrick
2008-08-21 14:08:18

Where could I buy one of those in the U.S.A. id love to tick off my recruiter with that.

 
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