Chinese electronic cigarette makers in the world’s biggest tobacco market
Chinese E-Cig Startups Activate Survival Mode As Industry Bids Farewell to Its Golden Age
Rising public awareness about the hazards of smoking, coupled with the growing regulation to ban smoking in public places, is opening up an opportunity for Chinese electronic cigarette makers in the world’s biggest tobacco market.
Invented by a Beijing pharmacist Han Li in 2003, e-cigs are battery-powered devices designed to simulate traditional cigarettes, though it does not contain tobacco nor work in a combustive way, but rather uses electricity to heat an atomizer to vaporize liquid that contains flavor and nicotine, which is inhaled by the user. The process of consuming that liquid is also called vaping, due to the vapor factor.
E-cig is a relatively new industry and is not yet very popular in China, but the market potential is huge. According to data compiled by China’s State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (also corporatized as China Tobacco), China has 315 million smokers as of December 31, 2018, who consume approximately 45 percent of the world’s regular cigarettes. If 1% of China’s smoking population turned to e-cigs, it would mean a market of 3.5 million users. https://en.pingwest.com/a/2841 China now makes nearly all of the e-cig devices sold worldwide. Even Xing Chenyue, the leader scientist behind North America’s favorite vaping device, Juul, is launching… Read more »
Although Ruyan has become history, Hon Lik has become obscurity, but we should not forget the contribution of Hon Lik to the development of electronic cigarette. Maybe, as Hon Lik taunted himself – maybe in 20 or 30 years I’ll be very famous, let’s look forward to it.
In 2002, Hon Lik began to develop new smoking cessation products. He has worked in the Liaoning Institute of traditional Chinese medicine for ten years, providing him with the foundation of research and development. Hon Lik’s idea is that smoking addiction is caused by nicotine, but burning products such as tar are the most harmful to human body. If only nicotine is retained after removing these harmful substances, the harm of smoking will be greatly reduced. After countless experiments, Hon Li’s electronic cigarette was born. In March 2003, Hon Lik registered the patent of related electronic cigarette products in his… Read more »
Hon Lik, the father of electronic cigarette Hon Lik, born in 1956, is a pharmacist and engaged in medical research. He is currently working as a consultant for Fontem Ventures, a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco. He worked in the Institute of traditional Chinese medicine and founded the JinLong Biological Science and Technology Co., Ltd. In 1974, Hon Lik became an educated youth in the countryside and began smoking to relieve loneliness away from his family. Like many smokers, Hon Li’s addiction to cigarettes is increasing, and he can smoke two or three packs of cigarettes a day at most when… Read more »
e-cig brand Ruyan
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Hon Lik: The initiative, struggle and gloomy ending of a 50s pharmacist’s cross-border electronic cigarette!
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