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I first witnessed the act of vaping up close at the top of a 29-story building late last year, when we were shooting our January cover story.
Before his partner took a portrait of him, one of our featured rooftoppers pulled out a walkie-talkie-like device, inhaled, and blew out a huge cloud of berry-scented smoke – adding a touch of mystique to the futuristic background of the photo. According to one of our interviewees of this month’s cover story, that rooftopper fits the profile of a typical vaper in China to a tee – a young male between the ages of 20 and 35, and someone who’s part of a subculture.
It’s interesting to point out that China is actually the largest manufacturer of e-cigarettes and vaporizers, but when vaping first became popular in the Middle Kingdom a few years ago, most manufacturers looked to the US for signals on new consumer trends. This, however, has changed since the vaping community in China saw its big boom back in 2016. Turn to p44 and see what this growing cloud of smoke is all about.
Elsewhere in the magazine, our Food Editor Betty Richardson goes green with her matcha dessert feature. Find out where you can savor Shanghai's most tea-licious sweets on p54.
In Arts, Erica Martin has prepared for you a preview of two upcoming music festivals – Concrete & Grass and Ultra China (p36).
For this month’s Life & Style travel feature, I speak to a few entrepreneurs, designers and musicians in Zurich, Switzerland to see how their city has inspired their work (p26).
Last but not least, photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagreze discusses what he learned about Hong Kong while documenting its vertical cityscape in his photo series ‘Vertical Horizon’ (p10).
Until next month,
Dominic Ngai
Editor-in-Chief
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