eCig The Movie

I say ‘it will be made’ quite confidently as everything is now made into a film. I blame WarGames, without the Internet that film would never have been made. Without films like WarGames I’d never have been forced into watching The Social Network.

Bill Gates, Anonymous, Wikileaks or Paul Allen – it doesn’t matter how boring the subject is for most viewers it will be turned into a film for YouTube or a documentary on The History Channel…like the painfully compulsive Triumph Of The Nerds.

For lovers of stories we are being swamped with them on an almost daily basis. The original genesis, the customisation boom and the rampant juice market have all got their tales to tell. We have online forum love stories to manufacturer trysts. Like the tales of computer tech, this is an industry creating itself from nothing at a huge rate – it’s exciting and nerdy in equal measure.

What stories do we have?

Invention gives way to production and redesign; profits have become impacted by companies from other sectors suffering the loss. We have greed, desire, strokes of genius and examples of altruism. We share, we hoard but (most of all) we exude passion for the product.

Just like the computer geeks of the 70s we coalesce, we bind together on the Internet in order to share our loves, discoveries and opinions. We learn from each other and push the community forwards. And nothing brings us together like the indignation created by some idiot with a tea towel or a doctored mod demonstrating that the Darwin Award is a wonderful thing.

Our garage engineers are now branching out and contracting production facilities, our vendors are spending their waking hours trying to find new angles and products. Hobbyists are becoming businesses and business is becoming BIG! We even have a little political party dedicated to vaping! How cute is that?

But if we consider the computer stories we know that there’s things yet to come. There are companies that will be crushed by growth, there will be leaders yet to emerge and just as cloned machine did for IBM the copy dilemma has still to be resolved in the vaping world.

Originals are fighting clone vendors by ripping payment systems away from them; politicians are fighting with common sense and good science. The only thing that’s missing is a decent cast list.

So who should be up for casting?

Clearly John Goodman has to be demanding people taste his juice at some point. Our Minister for Health has a history of spouting bizarre views, harbours wholly unscientific opinions and hid the truth about his ‘agent’ – now if this isn’t a shoe-in role for Tom Cruise I don’t know what is.

What’s that? He’s too American to play a Brit? That’s movies for you; they take poetic licence with actual events. I’m sure the War on Nicotine won’t actually involve evil Professor Glantz (Michael Douglas) destroying the Houses of Parliament while battling ECITA girl (Salma Hayek) but it’s going to look great and grab higher audiences. Anyway, it’s not like the anti-vaping lobby have ever made an effort to play with the truth so why not just look on it as commentary.