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What is a vending machine? The definition of vending quoted from Dictionary.com:

To sell by means of a vending machine.

While definition of vending machine quoted from Wikipedia is:

A vending machine is a machine that dispenses merchandise when a customer deposits money, validated by a currency detector, sufficient to purchase the desired item (as opposed to a shop, where the presence of personnel is required for every purchase).

Usually, the machine may consist of a big rectangular-shaped box, standing up, that has a place to insert coins or bills into the machine. Merchandise to sell is placed in the vending machine and when a customer inserts adequate money and select the item he or she wants, the vending machine will automatically release the item through a special hole that is found at the lower part of the machine.

Do you know the history of vending machine? Vending machine has a long history and let's learn about it:

• 215 BC, the ancient Greeks invented an urn and placed it in an Egyptian temple, which dispensed a certain amount of holy water. It was considered as the first vending machine.
• Early of 1880s, the first coin operated vending machines were invented in London. They were postcards vending machines.
• Richard Carlisle invented books vending machine.
• Coin acceptor mechanisms that distinguish genuine coins from fake has made vending machines become more popular.
• The first vending machine in United States was located on the subway platforms in New York City. It was invented by The Thomas Adams Company, dispensed Tutti Frutti gum.
• Pulver Manufacturing Company introduced the first animated gum vending machines in 1897.
• Gumball vending machines and round candy gumball vending machines was firstly introduced in 1907.
• Early of 1900s, co-operated bars and cafes broke out like crazy in France and Germany.
• Horn & Hadart (1902 - 1962) was a completely coin-operated restaurant in Philadelphia.
• Variety products were offered since: cigarettes, stamps, postcards, candy, gumball, etc.
• 1926, William Rowe from America invented a cigarette-vending machine.
• 1965, canned soft drinks vending machines were invented.
• 1981, the "talking" vending machines were invented.
• Up to date, vending machines has come in different shapes and sizes, dispenses various products.

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Electronic Cigarette..?

How do these work? I just watched a commercial where they advertised a cigarette (ILLEGAL, but I'm guessing theirs some loophole as it doesn't give off 2nd hand smoke), and then smoked it during the commercial. (also illegal, again i guess that raps around to it being "electronic" and that it doesn't give off 2nd hand smoke.) Does it still give you nicotine doses? I just read up about it on Wikipedia. Apparently its a liquid vapor, what are the chemical make ups of the vapor? How are they playing nicotine any more safer then in any other cigarette? Please don't call my curiosity stupidity, I just don't like the idea of a big tobacco company coming out with "healthy cigarettes" and it being a big scam on peoples health just to make them more rich. People like that deserve the death penalty. Anyways, info on the "E-cig"??
Thanks

Ecigs aren't a big tobacco or big pharm product, they've been introduced by Chinese manufacturers and are a separate industry at the moment.

They are attractive to many smokers because they can deliver nicotine (in small amounts apparently) and have the tactile and habit experience of smoking. Ingredients in the vapour are propylene glycol (found in asthma inhalers and non-toxic antifreeze), glycerine (in toothpaste), food flavours and nicotine (optional). There is no combustion, tar or ash and no carcinogens have been found in the vapour. Trace amounts of carcinogens (TSNAs) have been found in liquid because it's derived from tobacco. The levels found are similar to those in approved NRT products.

In the States ecigs are currently legal for sale on the free market and subject to default consumer protection regulations such as truth in advertising but no agency is enforcing those regulations. The FDA are being challenged in court at the moment for trying to bring them into medical regulation (that's how they killed Smokeless Cigarettes in 1987 by making them unprofitable). If ecigs don't get medicalised they might be brought into tobacco control as a tobacco product on the grounds that nicotine is usually derived from tobacco. Tobacco control is likely to introduce bans on advertising, postal transfers and internet sales; it will also probably impose marketing restrictions, usage restrictions and high taxes.