Hon Lik, the figure behind the birth of electronic cigarettes – Hon Lik is a pharmacist from China who is considered the inventor of modern electronic cigarettes or vapes. JAKARTAÂ – In recent years in Indonesia, the vape phenomenon has shown an increasing graph. Its users are increasing from year to year, from young users to adults.
Apart from the controversy that still haunts vaping  to this day, it wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t discuss the person who first invented this electronic cigarette.
Hon Lik is the figure behind it all. Reporting from various sources, Hon Lik is a pharmacist from China who is considered the inventor of modern electronic cigarettes or vape.
Hon Lik was born on September 26, 1951 in Shenyang Village, Liaoning Province, China. His father was a heavy smoker and Hon Lik grew up seeing the bad effects smoking had on his father.
This then became one of the motivations for Hon Lik to create an electronic cigarette device.
As a pharmacist, Hon Lik certainly has in-depth knowledge about the chemical content contained in conventional cigarettes and the negative effects they will have on the human body.
The nightmare that Hon Lik feared finally came to an end. Unable to save his father from the bad effects of smoking, Hon Lik’s father died of lung cancer caused by smoking.
Since then, he started thinking about the idea of ​​creating an electronic cigarette device in early 2000. The assumption was that this would be better than conventional cigarettes.
As time went by, Hon Lik finally started developing vape devices in 2003 using high-quality materials and advanced technology.
He created a vape device that uses ultrasonics to heat a liquid containing nicotine and other chemicals which is then inhaled by the user.
After he succeeded in creating the first vape device, Hon Lik launched the product on the Chinese market in 2004 under the brand Ruyan, which means ‘soft smoke’ in Mandarin. However, Ruyan is not very popular in its domestic market.
It was only in 2006 that vape devices began to spread outside China, especially to the European and United States markets.
In a short time, vaping has become popular among users who consider it a safer and healthier alternative to conventional cigarettes.
Hon Lik’s presence as the inventor of electronic cigarettes has had a major influence on the vape industry and paved the way for innovation and development of vape devices that are more sophisticated and safer for health.
Although vaping devices have become controversial in recent years, Hon Lik still considers his products to be a healthier alternative to conventional smoking.
Innovation in the vape business continues to develop and vape devices are claimed to be able to help people reduce cigarette consumption and improve their health. All of these positive impacts are still being weighed by the pros and cons.
Even so, Hon Lik has become a figure and has had a big influence on the electronic cigarette or vape industry. Vaping continues to be popular among users in the hope of helping people reduce cigarette consumption.
Well, in 2010, Hon Lik won the Innovation of the Year award from TIME magazine which ranked him as one of the greatest innovators of the 21st century.
Even though Hon Lik was able to help many people in the world to reduce their cigarette consumption, in fact he was unable to help his own father get out of the trap of excessive cigarette consumption.
