[IsaacSchlueter]

A vaporizer is not a pipe or bong, and it is certainly not smokeless.

You put your combustible material in a machine that heats it up until it smolders, and collects the resulting vapors in an airtight plastic balloon. Then you remove the balloon from the machine, put it to your mouth, and inhale the contents.

With a pipe or bong, you burn the material with a fire, and suck the smoke directly into your lungs. The difference with a bong is that the smoke passes through water first, which cools it and removes some of the heavier debris.

[humbledrone]

A real vaporizer is certainly smokeless. It vaporizes the oils in the marijuana bud; the marijuana is not supposed to burn. If you've used a vaporizer and it was producing smoke, that means that you had the heat turned up way too high.

vapor != smoke

[Alex3917]

"A real vaporizer is certainly smokeless."

There is some research that shows there is still tar in the vapor, albeit less.

[ncarlson]

Do you have a source?