Tobacco’s history throughout the ages.

Fire, air, liquid, vapor, are all about alchemy.

A short animation sequence will sum up the evolution and the origins of the usage of nicotine throughout the ages, from the earliest primitive tribes, to today’s world of vaping.

At first, mankind has a sacred relationship with tobacco, but progress desacralizes and industrializes its usage. Instead of using its knowledge to try and avoid the toxic tobacco’s combustion, the industry is going to use it to make cigarettes more addictive (making them more harmful in the process), just to increase profits. Finally, after years of development, vaping allows nicotine consumption with greatly reduced health risks. The animation sequence will proceed to depict the future of vaping…

History of vaping (interviews and documentaries)

In 1963, Herbert Gilbert filed a patent for the electronic cigarette, but back then, no one wants to produce it, especially not the tobacco industry…

40 years later, Hon Lik files a patent for the e-cig as we know it, trying to find a way to help his father, dying of lung cancer. This is the man who got the ball rolling.But vaping history isn’t only found on the internet. We learn more by talking to the vaping world’s actors. For example, did you know that the first rebuildables were made of hair dryer heating elements back in 2008 ?

Let’s now listen to Vincent Athéa, who’s going to walk us through his debut in the vaping world, and how he engineered his first vaporizers with bits of light bulbs, Zippo wicks and lighters springs…