Well, they do work quite poorly without electricity, that's true. Bit like your phone.

The US being the US, vaping became a lifestyle thing, with hipsters & "cloud competitions", making a quick buck. That's not what it should be about though.

In some circles it became so "toxic" that a movie star who was seen vaping said "no no, I wasn't vaping, it was marijuana!"

But in the end, it enabled me to not smoke 96,234 cigarettes since then, which is what I try to focus on. You haven't smelled your 14-yo Labrador until you stopped for (almost) 4 years.