Posted on 08/26/2016 7:20:14 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Electronic cigarettes, which do not require a flame but heat tobacco leaves to create a vapor that is inhaled, are so popular in Japan these days that demand cannot keep up with supply.
The e-cigarette boom was triggered by iQOS, a product released by Philip Morris Japan K.K. Rather than burning tobacco leaves, the iQOS heats cigarettes in a small cylindrical device — all designed exclusively for each other — so that nicotine and vapors are inhaled together.
Sales of iQOS began in Tokyo in September last year, before expanding nationwide in April. Even though the kit is priced as high as ¥9,980, convenience stores and tobacco shops have found it quickly sells out whenever it hits the shelves.
“We distribute numbered tickets to customers on the day we get iQOS,” the manager of a tobacco shop in Tokyo said. “But we can’t keep up with [the increasing demand].”
The market share of iQOS in Tokyo has already surpassed 5 percent.
Japan Tobacco Inc. started selling its own electronic cigarettes — Ploom Tech, priced at ¥4,000 — in Fukuoka and on the internet in March. It temporarily suspended shipments in the face of a flood of orders, and even though it resumed shipments in June, JT has currently suspended online orders from new customers.
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Japan is just now getting E-Cigs? Usually, it’s us in the states who are technologically behind the times.
E-Cigs are good when you find the one that works for you, but till you get there, it’s very expensive to experiment with various models.
I’d also hesitate to use them very much because I hear many reports of these devices exploding or igniting and setting the user’s clothing on fire. Quality Control is needed. Same story with Hoverboards. I would not buy one for my nephew right now. Too many Xmastime home fires started by those ‘floating’ skateboards.
What is done in our high schools is liquid marijuana in a VAPE. Crush these dope heads . These jack asses need to run six miles with a marine MALE DI!!
bfl
The Japanese smoke more than Americans, and have fewer cases of lung cancer; the prevailing theory is that they drink so much green tea.
Which is why you will never make any progress.
Yet somehow they're not all dead or dying of lung cancer, and instead have a sky-high life expectancy.
There are a bazillion things I love about Japan.
The thing I DETEST THE MOST is the insane number of smokers.
I heard per capita that Greece is actually higher than Japan, but that Japan is the most profitable, by far.
Until maybe 5 or so years ago there really wasn’t such a thing as a non-smoking area except in Starbucks and some parts of train stations and airports.
JAPAN: SMOKER’S PARADISE, non-smoker HELL.
What do you propose? Love?
Ask God that question. You might be shocked. But again you act as though you ARE already perpetually shocked by God.
One possible explanation is that the life-expectancy figures are made up, just like any other figures for any other Asian nation.
Used to see lots of Japanese in our Tn town come
tobacco sales time.They really preferred our Burley.
A couple of idiot farmers tried fooling them putting
stuff in the bales to increase weight.
Bad idea.
Isn’t this different from Vaping, as the device heats actual tobacco without a flame to create an inhalant?
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