Tobacco-less Cigarettes are Smokin in China
It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette but it isn’t bad for your health.
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.
By Sun Tzu on 09-05-2007
Comment by yavuz buyukturan
June 14th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I have a medical firm in Turkey.We want to sell this product (electronic cigarette) in Turkey.
Comment by Alexander Starshinov
July 4th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Please inform the exact given firms of the manufacturer of electronic cigarettes.
Comment by Heather
July 18th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I guess it is better then actual cigarettes.
Comment by Patrick
August 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Where could I buy one of those in the U.S.A. id love to tick off my recruiter with that.
Comment by saneesh
November 20th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Where can i buy in India and can you please send me how much it cost