Well, let me tell ya ’bout these here electronic cigarette machines. Folks call ’em vapes or somethin’ fancy, but I just call ’em what they are – machines for smokin’ without that stinkin’ ash all over the place. Now, I ain’t no spring chicken, and I seen my share of smokin’ contraptions, but these here things, they somethin’ else.
First off, they tell ya it ain’t as bad for ya as them regular ciggies. Says on the TV that regular ciggies got, like, seven thousand different things in ’em, all sorts of chemicals. These vapes, well, they got nicotine, yeah, but they say it’s just the heatin’ up of stuff, not the burnin’, that makes the smoke. Aerosol, they call it. Sounds fancy, but it’s just smoke to me. Don’t know if I believe it’s all that much better, but the young’uns sure do like ’em.
Now, there’s different kinds, see. Some are like them little pens, real small and easy to carry around. Then there’s the bigger ones, kinda boxy-lookin’. Those, they tell me, you can puff on ’em for a long time before they run out of juice, or whatever they call it. And get this, they got all sorts of flavors! Used to be you just had plain tobacco or menthol, now they got stuff like watermelon and bubblegum. Can you believe it? Bubblegum! Makes no sense to me, but folks eat it up, I tell ya.
And get this, there’s machines to make your own ciggies too. They got these little rollers and injectors. Some are just simple plastic things, you crank ’em by hand. Others, though, they’re electric, fancy like. You put the tobacco in, stick a little paper tube on the end, and press a button. Boom! Out comes a ciggie, just like that. Some of ’em are called Powermatic, some Green Smoke. Sound like somethin’ out of a science fiction movie, if you ask me. Heard they can cost a pretty penny too, some over a hundred dollars.
They even got these machines in stores, like those candy machines, but for ciggies. Used to be, anyway, ‘fore the government got their hands on it. Said no more sellin’ ’em like that, except in places where only grown-ups go. Guess they don’t want the young’uns gettin’ their hands on ’em too easy, which ain’t a bad thing, I reckon.
- Types of Machines: Little pens, big boxes, rollers, injectors, even those store machines.
- What they use: Nicotine, flavorin’, other stuff I can’t pronounce.
- Flavors: Everything under the sun, even bubblegum! Crazy, I tell ya.
- Cost: Some cheap, some not so cheap. Those fancy electric ones, they’ll set you back.
- Where to get ’em: Used to be everywhere, now mostly just grown-up stores.
Now, I ain’t sayin’ these things are good or bad. That’s for each person to figure out for themselves. But I’m tellin’ ya, they’re everywhere. You can’t go down the street without seein’ someone puffin’ on one of them things. Heck, even my grandson’s got one. Says it helps him quit the real ciggies, but I ain’t so sure. Seems to me he’s just tradin’ one habit for another. But then again, what do I know? I’m just an old woman tryin’ to make sense of this crazy world.
One thing’s for sure, though, these electronic cigarette machines ain’t goin’ away anytime soon. They’re here to stay, and it’s up to us to figure out how to deal with ‘em. Just like all them newfangled gadgets, I guess. Makes an old lady like me scratch her head, but that’s the way it is.
And let me tell you, this here Powermatic V+ they talk about, sounds like the fanciest one yet. Automatic tube loading? Powerful tobacco? They sure do come up with some new tricks. Makes you wonder what they’ll think of next.
So there you have it, my two cents on these here electronic cigarette machines. Take it or leave it, it’s just my way of seein’ things.
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