An excerpt from the abstract of his filing reads: My invention relates to vaporizing devices for holding medicinal compounds which are electrically or otherwise heated to produce vapors for inhalation, and the general object is to provide a device of this character for individual use which may be freely handled without any possibility of being burned, and which is sanitary and very effective and so simple that anyone can use it. Robinsons electric vaporizer never gained any commercial popularization, and there is little information as to whether or not any prototypes were ever created and tested
"[E-cigarette producers] ignore absolutely everything that was ever agreed to around combustible cigarettes, says Jackler
Smoking used to be a social activity, says company founder Jason Healy, but since "smokers are becoming lepers," increasingly forced outdoors, e-cigs are replacing their tobacco-based cousins as ice-breakers
Every year, 112,000 Filipinos die from tobacco-related diseases [3] in which the smoking-attributable death rate stands at 200 per 100,000 population [4]
