Ruyan keeps the e-smoking trend ablaze with Vegas e-cigar

Thinking of quitting cold turkey? Good on you. Finding it a bit harder than advertised? Enter Ruyan America, the same folks who delivered the e-cigarette just over a year ago. The new Vegas is based on the same concept -- delivering nicotine to smokers without the harmful toxins that typically follow -- yet it's obviously shaped like a cigar. This disposal product provides around 1,800 mouthfuls of vapor and comes pre-loaded with a 16mg nicotine cartridge. Granted, Ruyan America doesn't claim that this thing will help you quit, but those who'd like to feel suave or give it a go anyway can grab one now for $45 (or a box of five for $200).

[Via I4U News]

[andy @ Jul 13th 2008 11:06PM]

mmmmm nicotine!

[Flashpoint @ Jul 13th 2008 11:11PM]

sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

and sometimes its a huge brown ____ being shoved up your ____.

-George carlin.

[Tim @ Jul 14th 2008 3:17PM]

R.I.P.

[Ignatius @ Jul 13th 2008 11:32PM]

Here's to the greatest comedian of our time...

[johnzilla @ Jul 14th 2008 11:29AM]

This is lame. If you need the nicotine, why not just use the patch?

If you need nicotine and something tubular to stick in your mouth, somehow I don't think your addiction is nicotine.

[collegekid13 @ Jul 13th 2008 11:16PM]

yaaaaa finally smoking that doesn't kill those around you!

[deyanimay @ Jul 13th 2008 11:16PM]

This might just be the single greatest invention in the history of mankind.

[Miguel @ Jul 14th 2008 12:21AM]

This isn't remarkably new. Pfizer's Nicotrol brand started marketing their "inhaler" more than 5 years ago. Same thing. This one just looks like a cigar. At least the inhaler also had replaceable cartridges.

[deyanimay @ Jul 14th 2008 5:25AM]

I was being sarcastic.

[Artie Lange @ Jul 13th 2008 11:31PM]

Nicotine causes circulatory and cardiac disease. This is less detrimental to the user's health - and certainly to those around them - but its still not healthy.

[Ruben @ Jul 14th 2008 8:37AM]

This is substantially less detrimental to a persons health. The carbon monoxide (or basically anything that gets emitted when it gets burned) being inhaled is like a hammer of destruction to your lungs, while this eliminates that, because its vapor.

Sure, its still bad because of the Nicotine content, but none the less, if your not going to quit smoking anyways, you might as well smoke in a slightly more healthy way. Not to mention it doesn't destroy your home, car, and those around you.

That last point would probably make you smoke even more. Whats the harm in turning one of these on in the office?

Something tells me that the future of cigarettes is in forms like these. As soon as Phillip Morris and the like get involved in this, we will have a future generation of smokers asking people for a AAA battery instead of a light. Then they can dedicate all that tobacco growing land for earth destroying E85. Everyone wins.

[Bobs @ Aug 5th 2008 10:21PM]

‮ Tasty

[tbone @ Jul 13th 2008 11:48PM]

i wonder if this would make a good gift for a smoker "trying to quit" or would the person be insulted by it?

[Matt @ Jul 14th 2008 12:52PM]

The problem is that I don't know any cigar smokers who are trying to quit. The biggest cigar smoker I know smokes exactly one cigar a day (or occasionally none at all). I smoke exactly one cigar a week. I don't know a single person that you could call addicted to cigar smoke. Not to say they don't exist, but that kind of person has problems that probably aren't the fault of tobacco or nicotine at all. Smoking generally gets a bad rap because of cigarette smokers, which I consider a filthy habit - but then cigarettes are infused with artificial chemicals and tobacco blends specifically engineered to create chemical dependence. For that matter, every cigar smoker I've ever met despises cigarettes. I can understand someone wanted to break a cigarette habit - but I really don't see the use, or the market for someone trying to quit cigars. As just an FYI, you do NOT inhale cigar smoke. If you do, you're an idiot. Smoking a cigar is like tasting wine. You sip it, enjoy and evaluate the flavors, then spit it out.

[Haikibutsu @ Jul 13th 2008 11:56PM]

I get confused between cigars and tampons.

[%u258C @ Jul 14th 2008 7:21AM]

That or your a very talented cigar smoker

[Marques @ Jul 16th 2008 11:56AM]

Confuse the two a few times and believe me, you'll learn. Just always remember:

Cigars: Brown
Tampons: Red

[Anand D @ Jul 14th 2008 12:00AM]

Anybody try the original e-cigarette and know if it helps quit?

[Twitchy @ Jul 14th 2008 2:41AM]

Substitution therapy doesn't work - it just transfers the addiction to the new stimulus. Behaviour modification is where it's at, but that doesn't make someone bucket loads of cash nor does it sound like an easy way out.

[B. Waite @ Jul 14th 2008 11:27AM]

It helped me quit smoking, but your milage may vary.

I have colleagues who went from a pack a week to the e-smoking equivalent of a pack a day.

God help them if their e-cigs ever break.

[Joshua Walters @ Jul 14th 2008 12:01AM]

All the fun of nicotine addiction, without the fun of getting to light something on fire and stick the opposite end in your mouth!

[Michael Nelson @ Jul 14th 2008 12:07AM]

Can I order these from my iPhone? I just got a new iPhone, did everyone know that? If I can't get this from my iPhone, I don't see the point of Engadget posting this article...

[Chuckles McGee @ Jul 14th 2008 12:16AM]

After you're done having fun with your iPhone for the day, you can lay in bed and smoke one of these.

[BradS @ Jul 14th 2008 10:32AM]

You'd need to get the new Apple® iCigar™ (patent pending)

It has a multitouch interface, so you turn it on by stroking it. No, wait, that's something else...

I sure hope Apple® doesn't claim THAT infringes on their multitouch patents.

[computer.dude.28 @ Jul 14th 2008 12:25AM]

No, I'm Ryan. There's no u.

[Josh L @ Jul 14th 2008 11:16AM]

NO U.

[Bosco @ Jul 14th 2008 12:46AM]

If you're smoking cigars and getting a nicotine high, you're just plain smoking them wrong. Draw and enjoy the taste. Do not inhale.

[Artie Lange @ Jul 14th 2008 12:58AM]

Yes, enjoy the taste of sweet, sweet mouth cancer.

[Nippon @ Jul 14th 2008 1:41AM]

Well, at least a few people here are well informed enough to know that mouth cancer tastes good!

[phanbouy @ Jul 14th 2008 4:49AM]

oh come one, whattaya gonna hand out the once or twice you have a kid? lollipops? live a little ya ninnies.

[Richard @ Jul 14th 2008 10:26AM]

What? You still get a nicotine high just from drawing. Why do you think Rocky Patel's "The Edge" cigars have a warning on them? Why do you think some of Gurkha's offerings recommend that you stay seated and not operate heavy machinery? You get a nicotine high that is sometimes too strong for the smoker.

You don't have to inhale the smoke for it to be absorbed into your body.

[Elisha Adeagbo @ Jul 14th 2008 1:03AM]

Ruyan or Ryan?

[LordFarkward @ Jul 14th 2008 2:24AM]

It's Ruyan. It's Chinese, ru (roo) = like, yan (yen) = smoke.

[Elisha Adeagbo @ Jul 14th 2008 2:38AM]

i put that cuz ruyan is similar to ryan...block

[phanbouy @ Jul 14th 2008 3:23AM]

here at spammers space, spammers shove tobacco products up their asses!

[bob @ Jul 14th 2008 7:43AM]

ecigar? would you smoke it on the internet or something? Insted of getting lung cancer, your computer gets uber dust in the fan and wheezes and the keyboard turns yellow instead of your teeth.

[Jason O @ Jul 15th 2008 2:31PM]

Wow, Put a post up about anything nicotine related and the liberals come right out of the woodwork. I'm a proud dipper, I smoke cigars on occasion, a cigarette now and then, and am a gun owner (22 of them actually)..... You may think I'm a conservative.... but no, I'm just a liberal hater (cause I'm also an iPhone user, so no party will accept me)

[Jim @ Jul 31st 2008 9:42AM]

If you are looking for the mini version of the electronic cigarette, it'll cost you a little more but you can get one at http://www.e-cigshop.com

[Jim @ Jul 31st 2008 9:46AM]

If you are looking for the mini version of the electronic cigarette,
it'll cost you a little more but you can get one at
http://www.e-cigshop.com

[alex @ Aug 5th 2008 5:52AM]

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