News — e-cigarette

If you are thinking about going on an overseas trip and want to take your vape with you it pays to do your research. We are lucky here in NZ that attitudes towards vaping are relaxed with promising prospects for future regulation. However, this is not the case for a lot of popular travel destinations.  Many countries in Asia such and Thailand, Singapore, Brunei and Taiwan have outright banned e-cigarettes with the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia recently joining this growing list. Despite stories you may hear of audacious travellers managing to bring their e-cigarettes into these countries without trouble, it is...

Vaping is a modern trend, but even new vapes have their roots in ancient history. Ancient Egypt is known for its vaping techniques, such as using hot stones to vape herbs. Thousands of years ago the first shisha was introduced to India. All those techniques led to the invention of current vapes as we know them today. Who invented the contemporary e-cigarette? The modern history of vaping has its origins in ancient times. The first who came up with the idea of an e-cigarette is Joseph Robinson in 1927. However, it was in 1963 when Herbert Gilbert and his “smokeless...