TO GO WITH Lifestyle-health-cigarettes-tobacco-economy-China-marketing,FOCUS by Tom HANCOCK
In this picture taken on September 23, 2013, Hon Lik, acknowledged among industry commentators as the first person to develop a viable commercial version of the electronic cigarette, smokes an electronic tobacco pipe as he rests at his office in Beijing. The Chinese inventor who dreamed up the electronic cigarette in a nicotine-induced vision says that despite its global popularity, copycat versions and legal disputes mean he has battled to cash in on his creation. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO