Comparison of Mainstream Heated Tobacco Products in China and Abroad

 Although heating without burning has not yet been legalized in the mainland of China, a large number of companies have recently invested in the production of heaters and even the production of smoke bombs. It is probably only a matter of time before it is legalized in China. Once legalized, you must face how to choose a heater.

  At present, those who clearly intend to make cigarette bombs include "Hongtashan" and Sichuan Tobacco "Kuanzhai". Among them,"Kuanzhai" has a cigarette bomb officially launched, but it is not sold domestically due to legal reasons. It is currently only available to South Korea (the cigarette bomb specification is Korean LIL style rather than IQOS style, which has a slight difference).   Over the past few months, I have reviewed a large number of materials and comments on heating without burning, and selected several of the most popular ones for your reference. I only have "Modtank" myself, so the following point is a conclusion I have reached based on the usage feelings of multiple netizens over the past six months. It may not be completely accurate, but I hope it can help you choose the right heater to save money.   PS: The bombs of "IQOS" and "LIL" are basically in common. Most of them are popular on the market. However, British American Tobacco's "GLO" bomb shapes are completely different, so this article will not discuss heaters other than "IQOS" and "LIL".   Marlboro IQOS   Heating form: sheet   I don't need to say more about this. As the earliest founder, its functional shortcomings have been mentioned a lot, but there is one shortcoming that should not be blamed, that is, it cannot smoke continuously. In fact, this is a deliberate practice by the producer, in order to force users to reduce smoking. Frequency, so several subsequent upgrades of IQOS have not changed this feature. Many similar products on the Internet use IQOS and even show off how many cigarettes they can smoke in a row, with a face that encourages smokers to become addicted quickly. In terms of taste, IQOS is basically the gobang in the heating world. Although it is troublesome to operate, it is almost the first in taste. Most of the ones claiming to taste better than IQOS on the Internet are just taste metaphysics. What is certain at present is that IQOS is the most excellent product in the heating world. It is at least one of the products with excellent taste. It has its own merits, but there is none that exceeds it.   　　"Korean LIL"   Heating form: thick needle   South Korea's first product does not burn when heated and supports continuous smoking. It is also one of the few products on the market that has different tastes compared to IQOS. The taste is lighter than IQOS, but it supports its own "fiit" cigarette bombs very well. Its cartridge is slightly longer than IQOS and is compatible with IQOS's cartridge. However, IQOS's heating of the LIL cartridge is not ideal and requires longer heating times and more frequent cleaning. "LIL" and "fiit" are not expensive in Korea.   "Wide and Wide Kungfu"   Heating form: sheet   Merchant propaganda: In many domestic heating products, it also does not forget to step on IQOS and advocate continuous pumping, but relatively not so excessive.   Actual situation: The first officially supporting cigarette bombs in China does not burn when heated. It is basically a modified version of IQOS. It also has a self-cleaning function. It combines the charging treasure and the heating rod, so it supports continuous smoking. The price is cheaper than IQOS, more than 500 yuan. The shape of the smoke bomb is similar to the South Korean LIL (it is originally for South Korea), and it will be very light when heated with IQOS. Cigarette bombs are not currently sold domestically and focus on the Korean market. You can ask the authorities for a box to test smoking, but the price is anti-human.   　　"IBuddy i1"   Heating form: thin needle   Merchant promotion: How to be awesome Barabara emphasizes support for continuous smoking and stepping on IQOS.   Actual situation: A certain treasure left a message praising how good it tastes, but most people who have carefully compared the two many times think that its taste is lighter than IQOS. Since the machine itself is a charging treasure, it supports continuous pumping. The price is more than 500 yuan.   "Kecig"   Heating form: sheet   Merchant promotion: I have rarely stepped on IQOS, but I have stepped on steam smoke.   Actual situation: It is equivalent to a low-end version of IQOS, except that it supports continuous smoking (about 10 cigarettes), and the smoking time is very short, only 3 and a half minutes (IQOS is 6 minutes). But the price is cheap, less than 300 yuan.   #p#Pagination Title #e#　　《Tootar》   Heating form: sheet   Merchant promotion: There are too many propaganda content about IQOS and steam cigarettes Barabarabara, so I don't list them one by one. Of course, support for continuous smoking is indispensable.   Actual situation: According to JD crowdfunding netizens, its taste is not as good as that of IQOS, it is prone to overheating, unstable, and consumes power sometimes fast and sometimes slow. The price is reasonable, 400 yuan.   　　《Modtank》   Heating form: Ring   Merchant promotion: Ring heating has a mellow taste, no residue, and no waste of any cigarette bomb! IQOS and other needle and sheet heating are prone to carbon deposition and poor reduction, which affects the taste!   Reality: Although the promotion is too down-to-top, it is indeed a good heater, with its own advantages and disadvantages compared with IQOS. It uses circular heating and burns very fully (but because it is circular, it is heated from the outside inward, which easily leaves the burning smell of the surrounding paper). When IQOS heats the cigarette cartridge, it can only heat the middle part. At this time, you heat the IQOS Once the cigarette cartridge is heated in a Modtank, you can still take a few more puffs. Modtank has a total of three heating stages, but the lowest stage reaches 300 degrees (the temperature is higher than other products. IQOS is only more than 200 degrees. This product will have fewer harmful substances below 300 degrees). The default is gear 2, suitable for LIL cigarettes. If you want to smoke those in IQOS, please adjust it to gear 1. In terms of cleaning, Modtank is definitely the easiest among all products in this article. It is not easy to leave residue inside after smoking a cigarette. You can just put the heating ring in water and wash it every 10 cigarettes.(For those who are forced to wipe the heating ring once on each cigarette, there is no need to prepare a special tissue. After smoking a cigarette, wait for the heating ring to cool down, and then turn the cigarette upside down and insert it inside to rotate it once. The small amount of tar in the heating ring is sucked onto the cigarette holder paper, so that it is basically clean.) The price is 600 yuan. PS: After heating, please wait 5 to 10 seconds longer before pumping, otherwise the first two bites will easily burn your mouth and have a vague taste.   ————————————————————   In addition to the above things that heating does not burn, I would also like to specifically talk about IUOC. I hope that while supporting domestic products, we will not be misled by the exaggerated propaganda of merchants.   IUOC can use real cigarettes without having to buy special cigarettes like IQOS.   However, IUOC's claim to support all tobacco is not an innovation.   During the promotion period, it crazily stomped on IQOS and steam smoke, and its face was so disgusting that it was outrageous (I am not criticizing this product here, but the merchants 'promotion).   IUOC wants to quickly occupy the China market before IQOS tobacco is legalized in China. It dresses itself as China's IQOS, but it and IQOS do not belong to the same category. The only thing they have in common is to limit the temperature below 600 degrees (IUOC is 350 degrees, IQOS is more than 200 degrees) to reduce the harm caused by cigarettes.   The essence of IUOC is a tobacco evaporator, not a heating but not burning like IQOS. Regarding tobacco evaporators, just take a look at one of the video reviews of 027.   The difference between IUOC and traditional tobacco evaporators is that it increases the heating temperature (350 degrees, which activates just the best cigarette flavor), while traditional tobacco evaporators are between 180 degrees and 220 degrees (seemingly because this temperature activates nicotine).   Some netizens mentioned that when using IUOC, tearing up cigarettes and putting them in, or re-rolling the tobacco by hand, the taste will be better than directly inserting the finished cigarette. This is because its essential tobacco evaporator is used like this. The density of the finished cigarette is too high, which will hinder the machine from uniformly heating the tobacco.   IQOS is innovation, but IUOC is not. It just makes adjustments to old technologies. If the difference between IQOS and traditional tobacco is the difference between a digital camera and a film camera, and the difference between a lighter and a match, then IUOC is the difference between a new film camera and an old film, and the difference between a new match and an old match. It may be regarded as a modification of old technology, but it is not a technological innovation.   The biggest innovation of IQOS is its smoke bomb.   Ordinary cigarettes consist of two parts: cigarette holder + tobacco, while IQOS's cigarette cartridge consists of four parts: cigarette holder + filter + heat drop ring + baked tobacco. Regardless of the effect, this is a technological breakthrough.   The reason why ordinary tobacco cannot be used on heating but not burning (including circular ones like ModTank) is precisely because it lacks the heat-reducing ring. Both "IUOC" and "Young Master Dou" have specially made a cigarette holder to allow people to smoke. Keep their mouths away from the cigarette at a distance to avoid being burned.   Not only is IUOC not a technological innovation, but even in its own field, it is definitely not the first in the world as it claims to be. At least "Jinjia" and "iBacco" were launched earlier than it was. Among them,"iBacco" was recently launched together with "IUOC"."Young Master Dou" was launched together with "IUOC". At the beginning, after the successful JD crowdfunding campaign, it received a wave of bad reviews. Now it has a different name and posted it to say IUOC wants to give popularity. However, I don't know whether it has been improved after changing the name. Its price is very expensive, around 700 yuan.   IQOS is a new type of tobacco that Philip Morris spent billions of dollars to develop. Whether it can become a digital camera or an unfortunate new product will be a test of time.   IUOC is a small company that was established not long ago. It took just a few months to manufacture and rushed to the market. It needs time to be tested.   These two points are just statements of the facts and do not deliberately belittle IUOC. Anyway, they just leave it to time. But one thing is certain is that the price of IUOC is 900 yuan, but it is definitely not worthy of this price.   In addition, IUOC and other products also have a very disgusting behavior during the promotion process, which is to crazily attack that steam smoke is a chemical product and not forget to post pictures of smoke oil.   I don't know why many people equate chemistry with liquids. In fact, chemistry can take any form, it can be liquids, solids, gases……   Steam smoke is chemistry, IQOS smoke bombs are chemistry, real smoke is also chemistry, of course, the snacks and instant noodles you usually eat are also chemistry.   IQOS is an electronic cigarette, but it is not a vapor cigarette. It must be smoked with an electronic heater, and cannot be directly ignited and burned like ordinary cigarettes. Without the electronic part, IQOS's cigarette bomb is nothing. There is no need to rigidly bundle e-cigarettes into vaping cigarettes. It is a good thing that e-cigarettes are developing in multiple forms (rather than just being limited to steam).# p#pagination title #e#