{"id":12,"date":"2013-10-08T00:15:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T07:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-11-17T04:07:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T11:07:04","slug":"technological-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/2013\/10\/08\/technological-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electronic Cigarette<\/a><\/p>\n

The electronic cigarette, otherwise known as the e-cigarette,<\/p>\n

\"\"was invented in the 1960\u2019s but was not popularized until the past decade. As of now there are currently more than 250 brands with a wide range of flavors.<\/p>\n

As stated in this article, the tobacco industry worries as this new substitute may put them out of business in the prospective future. A very similar comparison can be made to their current situation with the past rivalry of Kodak and Fuji, where Fuji prospered and Kodak withered away due to their persistent refusal of advancement into the digital world. \u00a0The E-cig shows the new technological growth mankind has made, though not yet tested completely, they\u2019re currently more \u201chealthy\u201d than regularly cigarettes as they lack tobacco in their makeup. In terms of style, they\u2019re almost identical with just a few aspects lacking, and E-cigs gives users the smoking sensation that they may crave for yet puts them out of harm\u2019s way at the same time. With such a vigorous new product on the market like this, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if cigarette companies ended up like Kodak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Electronic Cigarette The electronic cigarette, otherwise known as the e-cigarette, was invented in the 1960\u2019s but was not popularized until the past decade. As of now there are currently more than 250 brands with a wide range of flavors. As stated in this article, the tobacco industry worries as this new substitute may put them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clarencelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}