Author: srspring
Keywords: Medicine
Added: April 22, 2008
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A vaporizer (or vapouriser) is a device used to release the active ingredients of plant material such as herbs and tobacco. Vaporizing is a safer, healthier alternative to smoking; rather than burning the herb, which produces numerous harmful by-products; a vaporizer heats the material, to ideally 180°C (356°F), so that the active compounds contained in the plant melt and phase into an aromatic vapor, not smoke.
This vapor ideally contains virtually zero tar and reduced noxious gases such as carbon monoxide. Vapors may be filtered and cooled further using a water pipe or an inline water/ice attachment, with the vapors stored for subsequent inhalations in a dome or attached balloon and valve.
With little to no smoke produced, cooler temperatures, and less material required to achieve the same effect, the irritating/harmful effects of smoking are greatly reduced or eliminated along with second hand smoke by using a vaporizer. This makes vaporizers useful in places where there are public bans on smoking.