General Information

The SFI ‘smokeless cigarettes’ provide the smart smoker her or his accustomed delight without smoldering tobacco and therefore without irritating bystanders with second hand smoke.

When the smoker starts ‘smoking’ he takes the ‘smokeless cigarette’, casually inserts a filter in the stick or ‘Zig’ and takes her or his first drag. A sensor signals the consequent ‘under- pressure’ to a mini processor unit in the cigarette and a spiral is instantly heating up. Thus the device starts warming up incoming air the moment the smoker starts inhaling. The heated air evaporates the nicotine and aroma at exactly the right temperature within the filter and then the mix is inhaled by the smoker without subsequent smoke exhalation.

The device is an electronic stick (‘Zig’) in which a filter fits which contains the aroma and the nicotine. From time to time the battery has to be charged with a Zippo-shaped power unit.

The aroma is of major importance as throughout the years alternatives for cigarettes have been launched of which the success became limited by (bad) taste.