E-cigarette lovers have reinvented the image of smoke

Sarah Merriweather of San Diego USES vaping as a way to quit smoking. A few months later, she began racing with vaping. 

 

Merriweather became the first person to join the vaping contest, completing the team competition and getting a sponsor bonus. Vaping has developed into a thriving subculture, and the participants in the Vaping competition are known as "cloud chasers", and viewers and fans are called "cloud watchers". 

 

When the race was started, e-cigarette users did not remember, but they made it clear that vaping became a phenomenon around 2012. "I picked up vaping and put down my cigarette. And then the vape store around you started organizing the game, you know, I‘m going to try it." Merriweather says. She has since won several small and large tournaments. 

 

Vaping became the mainstream in the United States in 2004, and its popularity has grown exponentially in recent years. According to a 2016 article in Quartz, 10,591 stores on Yelp were listed as "vape shops" in the United States, with a high number on the west coast. 

 

For some vape enthusiasts such as Jonathan Gromis and Isaac Perez, using vape and hookah techniques and Posting on social media, they eventually led to their career in vaping. Along with a growing number of followers, they set up their first skill team in the United States. Now they are the head of a company that makes electronic liquids and vaping equipment, and Jonathan Gromis and Isaac Perez are two of the most smoky people. 

 

The biggest tool in this game is e-cigarettes. The inhalation of the smoke oil or the liquid vaporization of the electronic cigarette. The atomizer (small heating element inside the device) inhales the liquid and evaporates it. The lower the resistance of the coil, the better the smoke and the greater the density. 

 

The Vaping game is simple. There are two categories: smoke and techniques. 

 

In the cloud race, select two participants at random. Then they start with the countdown timer and stand back to back. They inhale deeply, blowing out a single, dense fog cloud. The smoke length, cleanliness and density are then judged. Who blows the longest, the most dense and the cleanest smoke can carry on the next round. The smoke of the victorious man was like the cumulonimbus that appeared in the sky before the rainstorm. 

 

"It has to spit out directly, and there‘s no excess steam blowing from both sides of the mouth," said Gromis, a judge attending the vaping competition. In order for the competition to be prescriptive, e-cigarette users must set their equipment resistance to a specific number of ohms. All people need to play in rooms without any source of airflow. The vaper likes it, though it is sultry, so that the airflow in the air affects the shape and density of clouds. 

 

Another category is more visually appealing because of the smoke tips. Participants usually have a minute to show off their best skills. The group of three to five judges decided who was the most creative, the smoke cleaner and better, and qualified for the next round of competition. Until the end produces a clear winner. "Technical smoke is usually more difficult than simple smoke, because it involves manipulating your body parts to create different types of smoke," perez said. 

 

There are different kinds of tricks: Bender, Runner and Spammer. The Bender (Bender) maintains a static position in a position and USES their body parts to manipulate them to blow out different shapes of smoke. Runners don‘t usually stay still, but move in the direction of smoke so that they can create shapes from it. Spammers are known for their ability to spew multiple o-type cigarettes simultaneously. Their specialty is the ability to create multiple stacked o-type smoke rings by tapping their cheeks. 

 

E-cigarette lovers spend a lot of energy and time perfecting these techniques. "They usually start with failed smoke and then try to rebuild it. There have been several times in the past, we all think some smoke patterns do not arrive, until some of the newcomers in a crazy new skills, everyone started to create this new style, so it opens a lot of different skill options. "Perez said. 

 

Like Merriweather in vaping, the new FDA rules will make it difficult to sell electronic liquids. Because you have to go through an expensive, time-consuming process to sell e-cigarettes. The application process is expensive, so the price of electronic liquids that have already been registered in the market will likely rise. In the long term, the primary factor for registering a variety of electronic liquid condiments must be borne by the supplier. Regardless of the consequences, these vaper are pretty sure they will continue their vaping game.