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The high-tech world of homebrew e-cigarette designers

Adi Robertson
is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.

The FDA has yet to make a call on just how safe e-cigarettes actually are, or whether they’re a significantly safer counterpart to traditional cigarettes. But at Vapefest, a gathering for obsessive e-cig enthusiasts who call themselves “vapers,” people spend thousands of dollars buying or making elaborate smoking apparatus — from tanks to hold “e-juice” on long-haul trucking trips to tiny mustaches that clip onto e-cigarettes. At Digital Trends, novice e-cig smoker Andrew Couts brings back a report from a community that’s literally stamping out cigarettes to replace them with a high-tech counterpart.

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