Vaporizer

Vaporizers, also known colloquially as "vapes", were devices used to vaporize a plant or plant extract, typically cannabis or tobacco, for inhalation. While it produced the same effects as smoking the plants, the lack of combustion lessened the damage caused by long-term use (though in the case of tobacco did not lessen the risk of addiction).

The first vaporizers appeared among some primitive Human societies in the form of hookahs and similarly complex devices. Over the millennia, portable electric vaporizers were created designed specifically for liquid extracts. The origin of hookah-like vaporizers was unknown by historians, though the invention of portable vaporizers was often attributed to Human slaves inhabiting Hutt territories, who based the technology on millennia-old hookahs. Apart from its recreational prevalence in the Galactic Republic, vaporizers were also considered sacred in Hutt Space and were used by inhabitants of all species; some Hutts even considered vaporizers to have religious importance.