What positive impact has the e-cigarette or vape industry brought to us?

Han Li, a Chinese pharmacist, who got the first patent of e-cigarette aiming to quit smoke in 2004. Later he made his own brand, Ruyan which made a great change in the world and marked the arrival of a new era of e-cigarette. After that, the e-cigarette or also called as vape devices get a stimulated development all around the world, especially in Shenzhen China-almost 90% e-cigarettes or vape devices manufactured. Without question, the modern e-cigarette or vape industry has made a deep influence on us within short twenties since 2004, though many new policies or regulations launched by governments to make sure the vape industry goes well and new brands come in and out.

Before talking about positive effects of e-cigarette or vape industry, we will talk some general ideas such as what is vaping and vape device and how does e-cigarettes work firstly. Vaping is the inhaling of a vapor created by an e-cigarette or other vaping device. As we all know the vape devices includes atomizers, mods and e-liquid. People who use e-cigarette or vape device named themselves vapor. Vapors can choose any kind of atomizers like, RDA, RTA, rdta or tank, battery built-in mods or e-liquids with different levels of nicotine Later, new types, all in one system(AIO) come out, which means vapors only need to refill its cartridge, as all vapors have in an AIO product except for the Eliquis. AIO vapes come in variety of sizes and shapes, with the most common being penning and pod-style AIOs. Powered by the battery, the e-liquid is heated when vaping.

With the great and fast development of e-cigarette, there is a fierce talking about the effects of vape. Then, lets go to the point, see what positive impact has the e-cigarette or vape industry brought to us.

***Quit Smoking

At the very beginning of e-cigarette designation, the e-cigarette or vape products are made to help smokers quit smoking. E-cigarettes are almost twice as effective as nicotine replacements for helping smokers quit, a study suggests. A trial found 18% of smokers who used them to quit remained smoke-free after a year, compared with 9.9% of those using nicotine-replacement treatments. The study of 886 smokers is the first to test how effective modern e-cigarettes are for quitting. Researchers hope their findings will lead to vaping devices being routinely offered by stop-smoking services. Public Health England has already called for e-cigarettes to be made available on the NHS within five years, pointing to a body of research that suggests they are at least 95% less harmful than cigarettes.

Vaping devices are not designed to burn the vaping material until combustion. Instead, it just vaporizes the vaping materials. Burning or heating beyond the combustion point creates the smoke which is known for its harmful health effects. Unlike cigarettes, vaping doesn’t produce ash or tar which is not the case of cigarettes. Having said that, inhaling vapor doesn’t affect your health negatively. Besides, several studies have shown that vapor doesn’t contain harmful particles that are generally found in traditional cigarettes.

***Health Function

Vaping means no-smoke. Unlike smokers, vapors don’t get exposed to oral infections or foul smell after the session. By avoiding the smoke, vaping helps you in maintaining healthy skin and lungs. At the same time, smoke-free days helps in improving blood circulation. Oral cancers are caused by smoking cigarettes. On the other hand, vaping was never known to create any type of cancer to anybody. Nicotine can be addictive, but it doesn’t affect your health unless you consume raw nicotine in huge quantities.

Besides, healthy department in different country always pay attention to vape device effect to people’s health, also launch new regulation or policy to strengthen the vape device checking which on the other hand ask manufacture to produce more qualified and safer products though the test cost a lot, like the PMTA.

***Vape Culture

People who used vapor device are called as “Vapor”, then they build the vape community which means they are free to talk endless of things related with vape: basic vape know ledges on how to use and what kind e-liquid is ok for certain vape device; or talking about the products themselves what are the pros and cons. When the community grows bigger and more stable, then will comes out a brand which do their own products or form an official team do the reviews to analyze the products and make short videos just show how to do tricks. Also, Without question, almost members in vape community are young people. Besides, the vape culture also help to create certain jobs as vape models, designers, photographers and reviewers. All those are form the vape culture.

*** Vape Employment and Economy

Based on the work report of AO Weinuo’s work report, who is the Secretary General of the Electronic Cigarette Industry Committee of the China Electronics Chamber of Commerce. He pointed out that In 2019, the global sales of e-cigarette (excluding heat not burn products) was $33 billion, while it was $16 billion in 2018, which is a year-on-year increase of 106.25%, which is 14 times the industry development in 2012 ($2.2 billion). The market size of the Chinese e-cigarette industry in 2019 was $7.87 billion, of which export sales were $6.26 billion. In the worldwide retail terminals, most merchandise sales will be expanded four or five times, which means more than 90% of global e-cigarette products are made from China.

According to the 2018 World Tobacco Development Report issued by the Institute of tobacco economy of the state tobacco monopoly administration, the global sales of e-cigarettes in 2018 was about US $14.52 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27%, more than 10 times higher than that in 2010; in 2018, the number of consumers of new tobacco products (including heating tobacco products and fogging e-cigarettes) is estimated to be more than 40 million, which is expected to grow to 64 million people by 2020.

The United States is the world’s largest consumer market for e-cigarettes. In 2018, the sales volume of e-cigarettes in the United States was $5.6 billion, an increase of 20.5% year-on-year, followed by the UK market, with sales volume of $2.43 billion, an increase of 36.6% year-on-year. Italy, Germany, France and other countries are also big consumers of e-cigarettes.

***New Vape Technology

In terms of production and technology, China has a clear global advantage, especially more than 100 supply chains in Shenzhen, making China being a manufacturing center for the global industry. Based the date of the Electronic Cigarette Industry Committee of the China Electronics Chamber of Commerce: till November 2019, there were 28,642 patents for e-cigarettes worldwide, an increase of 2663 from last year, of which 2,506 were from China, accounting for 87.3%. In China, there are more than 51 high-tech companies in the national e-cigarette industry, and more than 2,000 newly registered affiliated companies in the industrial and commercial system throughout the year, which create more than 500,000 jobs directly, and afford to more than 2 million people work indirectly, and export to more than 132 countries and areas.