Just took delivery of a Pax Ploom here in the UK ... availability here has been poor but the number of UK eBayers importing them have become more and more and the prices have finally become a bit sensible.
What makes Pax Ploom so unique is that it takes proper smoking tobacco and vapes it ... designed for pipe tobacco - but I would imagine it's also popular for other "herbal" blends
Take aside it's sleek looks (it's bigger than it looks in the pictures! but still pocket sized) - it's impressive battery life and charger that looks as if it was designed by Apple ... the thing actually works - that's the point!
I loaded the bottom oven with some Solani Virginia Flake with Perique - it takes a very small amount of tobacco - about half a roll-up's worth - clicked the mouthpiece in to the on position and waited the 2-3 minutes until it heated up and the light was blue. Then I inhaled the mouthpiece and was completely thrown by the warm thick smoke-like substance that came out of it! It gave about 4-5 minutes of regular smoking type behaviour before the vapour started to become thinner and then disappeared altogether. I then emptied the oven - and the tobacco that comes out is truly not burnt at all ... merely toasted a little.
The taste is the main thing - the tobacco isn't being burned at all so all the flavours are those of the natural tobacco in it's delicious, fragrant, raw state - rather than the usual acrid and life-threatening smoke that I gave up over 5 years ago. It's also not the synthetic world of e-liquid flavours with ridiculous names that are 95% propylene glycol and 5% medical nicotine and flavourings (not that I really have much experience of this side of things). This is a whole new world of the taste of unburnt tobacco vapour and it's as wide and varied as the number of diverse pipe blends that are out there. It's very exciting! And I can also use my home-grown stuff in there too!
It delivers on the nicotine - at about the levels I think cigarettes used to do it for me - but it was so long ago it's hard to remember!
All in all - I think I'm really chuffed with this buy - really happy!
What makes Pax Ploom so unique is that it takes proper smoking tobacco and vapes it ... designed for pipe tobacco - but I would imagine it's also popular for other "herbal" blends
Take aside it's sleek looks (it's bigger than it looks in the pictures! but still pocket sized) - it's impressive battery life and charger that looks as if it was designed by Apple ... the thing actually works - that's the point!
I loaded the bottom oven with some Solani Virginia Flake with Perique - it takes a very small amount of tobacco - about half a roll-up's worth - clicked the mouthpiece in to the on position and waited the 2-3 minutes until it heated up and the light was blue. Then I inhaled the mouthpiece and was completely thrown by the warm thick smoke-like substance that came out of it! It gave about 4-5 minutes of regular smoking type behaviour before the vapour started to become thinner and then disappeared altogether. I then emptied the oven - and the tobacco that comes out is truly not burnt at all ... merely toasted a little.
The taste is the main thing - the tobacco isn't being burned at all so all the flavours are those of the natural tobacco in it's delicious, fragrant, raw state - rather than the usual acrid and life-threatening smoke that I gave up over 5 years ago. It's also not the synthetic world of e-liquid flavours with ridiculous names that are 95% propylene glycol and 5% medical nicotine and flavourings (not that I really have much experience of this side of things). This is a whole new world of the taste of unburnt tobacco vapour and it's as wide and varied as the number of diverse pipe blends that are out there. It's very exciting! And I can also use my home-grown stuff in there too!
It delivers on the nicotine - at about the levels I think cigarettes used to do it for me - but it was so long ago it's hard to remember!
All in all - I think I'm really chuffed with this buy - really happy!
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