These devices typically have a range of features including airflow control, which can create a more restricted draw similar to that of a cigarette
That saving gets passed on via competitive retail pricing
In anticipation of a health crisis to be precipitated by the Smoking and Health Report of the US Surgeon General's Committee, Philip Morris in early sixties developed a charcoal filter named Saratoga
As a result, more kids no longer see holding a tobacco cigarette as an "adult" thing to do, and candy cigarettes aren't seen as a way to seem like an adult
And, given that there's no centralised and trusted age verification service (because it's utterly half-rsed like everything else the government does) I wonder how long until there's a massive data leak of PII that wouldn't be necessary if it wasn't for that stupid poorly written "I dunno and neither does Ofcom" piece of sh!t legislation that the idiot Sunak signed into law
The brand with the iconic Buddha logo was produced until the early 2000s but was discontinued thereafter