Why are cigarettes called analog cigs?

[jamvector]

Why not just call them what they are "cigarettes". I rarely use analogs but instead I use cigarettes or smoking.

I don't know who came up with calling them analogs but this word has nothing to do with cigarettes.

I agree, but the real problem began when people started calling PV's e-cigs. Personal Vaporizors are NOT cigarettes any more than cigarettes are "analogs". If we agree to call e-cigs PV's, then we can get back to proper use of the term cigarettes. This of course is unrealistic, so I am ok referring to cigarettes with any of the previously mentioned derogatory labels, and PV's as whatever sounds coolest.

 

[jj2]

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Wait, there's something else besides "cool" to say when you like something, lol . Guess I'm not so young either.

I find the analog thing funny too.

"Cool" I make three.
It was a little strange saying it a first, but it grows on you.

 

[beast775]

pv it is,personal vaporizers.makes most sense to me.

 

[Haytoni]

you should change it..i say death sticks,cancer sticks.say what they really are,they are a perfect gov system.take while your alive and producing income,then kill you slowly and shut you down when your not producing income.the government cigarette monopoly.thats to long.ha

Yeah I like that the G cigarette..............instead of analog...Good one beast.

 

[Haytoni]

The definition of digital has been compromised in the computer age. Digital is a term used to represent a quantity of something or information as a discrete value (digit), as opposed to quantities represented as a continuum. With regard to analog cigarettes, you light them and they burn down, eventually to a point where they cease to burn - this is a chemical reaction (oxidation) following a continuum. Electronic cigarettes (I prefer to call them personal vaporizers as they contain no tobacco) have both digital and analog properties; the are digital from an operational sense, because they are either on (press switch or activate auto switch), or off - this is a binary digital operation. When switched on however, voltage is applied to the coil causing current flow through a wire with known resistance, and it therefore operates as an analog system where a heating process in the coil produces vaporization of a liquid in a continuum mode. Hope that helps explain, sorry but I am a nuclear physics geek

Just paper thingie and metal thingie is what I call them.

 

[~Jo~]

It's really just a joke. It doesn't have to be technically correct to get a humorous point across.

But I'm like thelook. I feel silly trying to pick up new lingo, so I still call them cigs or cigarettes.

 

[nyghtmare]

I like that one Hoosier came up with P. E .N . I . S .
and call the smokes what ever you fancy
its all GROOVY to me

 

[AngusATAT]

its all GROOVY to me

Far out, man.

 

[thelook]

Wooot!!! "Cool" "Groovy" & "Far Out" Now your speaking my lingo!!!!

 

[Hoosier]

I like that one Hoosier came up with P. E .N . I . S .
and call the smokes what ever you fancy
its all GROOVY to me

I cannot claim credit for that. Someone before me posted it first.

But since I read it I cannot read a post about sucking a PV or choking on one with a straight face. Even thought of making a T-shirt that said Ask Me About My ...

 

[ThePuck]

From one old electrical engineer to another...

The joke started because our PVs actually have a microprocessor in them that controls how long you can draw (5 second cutoff), the battery monitor system that won't let the battery discharge too far and other functions for charging and controlling the leds. That is digital. The opposite of digital or old school for the same processes is analog. Transistors are analog, microprocessors (as a whole) are digital. Since cigarettes were the "old way" like transistors,... they were called analogs. Some attempt at techy lingo

It's okay, I hate the term vaping ( sounds like a bad health condition) but can't come up with anything better.

 

[iclavdivs]

I like the 'analogs' nickname - I think it's cute.

IRL to my family and friends I call them Fake Cigarettes and Real Cigarettes.

 

[Jarek91]

I understand its to differentiate the two, but I guess it slightly bothers me cause its completely incorrect. The textbook term for organic is something that originated from the earth, IE plant matter. Sure its treated with chemicals, but its more "correct" than calling them analog. Electronics dont have to necessarily mean its digital. Plus digital IS a subset of analog, just like a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square. I guess its funny to me because Im an electrical engineer.

Ah but the term organic can also apply to the PV thus making this explanation at least partially inaccurate. Since many of the juices incorporate VG and are at least partially flavored with organic compounds, then a PV can also be considered an 'organic' device.

I suppose we could call them something else, but like a great many catch-phrases, it isn't so much the accuracy as it is the ability to stick in memory that gave it the boost in usage.

 

[jamvector]

Wooot!!! "Cool" "Groovy" & "Far Out" Now your speaking my lingo!!!!

I would add "Gnarly" to the mix, has sort of a "woody" sound to it (from Monty Python's Flying Circus days)

 

[Poeia]

"Cool" I make three.
its all GROOVY to me
Far out, man.
I would add "Gnarly" to the mix, has sort of a "woody" sound to it

This is a gear conversation. (I hope jamvector doesn't find that word tinny.)

When speaking, I refer to the things containing chopped up tobacco as "cigarettes." When writing, it depends on my mood -- sometimes "analogs," sometimes "cigs" and sometimes "cigarettes."

 

[jamvector]

This is a gear conversation. (I hope jamvector doesn't find that word tinny.)

When speaking, I refer to the things containing chopped up tobacco as "cigarettes." When writing, it depends on my mood -- sometimes "analogs," sometimes "cigs" and sometimes "cigarettes."

It's spelled tinny, but is actually pronounced "throat warbler mangrove"

 

[lasttango]

old to new, that's all it is... a metaphor -

 

[CaptJay]

I dont think we need to get hung up on what we call cigs so much. Analog works for me sometimes, if it doesn't work for you don't use it. Simple as.

 

[PaulB]

As a player of musical instruments with strings, I'm sometimes tempted to refer to tobacco cigarettes as "acoustics" (as opposed to "electrics").

 

[NCC]

Along the same line as the original question:
Why do we call the heating unit an atomizer? It doesn't atomize the juice, it evaporates it or vaporizes it. We call our devices Personal Vaporizers, not Personal Atomizers ... and for good reason. It would take MUCH more heat to break down the juice into its chemical elements. You wouldn't want to do that anyway.

Another type of atomizer sprays a liquid into a fine mist so it will quickly evaporate (think perfume). Our 'atomizers' don't do that either.

So, atomizer - analog - and probably other terms in use might not make sense, but they were used, seemed 'right' to enough people and we're stuck with them. My 2¢