The notion of vaping first came about more than 90 years ago in New York, but it wasn’t until a lot later that it really took off.

The very first vaping seeds were planted in 1927 by an American called Joseph Robinson. He filed a patent for a device he called a ‘Mechanical Butane Ignition Vaporizer’. His patent was approved three years later but Robinson never brought it to the market, leaving the concept left under wraps for a few decades.

More than 40 years after Robinson’s revelation, Herbert A Gilbert stepped in to take over and bring the idea to life. Using the technology that was available in 1963, he created a cigarette alternative without combustion.

In 2001, Hon Lik, a pharmacist from China, turned his smoking vice into an invention after his father passed away from lung cancer.

Lik’s device took to the shelves in China in 2004 and entered the European and US markets in 2006 and 2007.

2020 welcomed NERD BAR™, a team of fellow vapers tired of the flavourless industry, with a brand new line of flavours in recyclable disposable devices