Abstract: A device for inhaling a mixture of air and vaporized volatile compounds, but without combustion or thermal decomposition of the volatile compounds or of other non-volatile organic matter, as is the case in ordinary smoking methods. The device is intended to be hand-held in a manner similar to that of an ordinary tobacco pipe. It can be used further to administer volatile medications, by route of the respiratory organs, to the bodily system of the user of the device. The device is intended to not achieve uncomfortable surface temperatures while at the same time it will be able to readily and rapidly evaporate compounds and mixtures of such compounds that can achieve a vapor pressure of one atmosphere at temperatures of less than 250.degree. C.

Abstract: An electrical device for the noncombustion utilization of tobacco and other smoking materials. The device consists of a canister or other appropriate container within which air is electrically heated to an appropriate temperature for volatilizing the desired components of smoking material previously inserted into a receptacle provided in the mouthpiece part of this invention. Volatilization takes place when the heated air is drawn through the smoking material contained in the mouthpiece assembly. The mixture of heated air and volatilized smoking material components is then drawn from the mouthpiece into the mouth and respiratory passages of the user of the device.