What, exactly, is the point of the e-cigar?

[jmowreader]

The e-cigarette threads were intriguing enough that I went to some of the e-cigarette sites. They also have an e-cigar.

Now look, I can understand the point of the e-cigarette--both from the "I smoke this to help me quit" and "I smoke this because I can't smoke tobacco cigarettes at my job/while drinking/at the movies/whatever" perspectives.

The e-cigar, according to the dealer sites, uses the same cartridges e-cigarettes do. This is what's confusing me here. Cigars don't taste anything like cigarettes. They're not smoked like cigarettes--you don't have to inhale a cigar because the alkaline nicotine in cigar smoke absorbs through the tissues in your mouth, while the acidic nicotine in cigarettes has to be drawn into the lungs. And cigar nicotine, because of its pH, isn't addictive (seriously--there has been research into this, but cigars are not addictive unlike cigarettes which most certainly are) so the impetus for designing a device that will keep cigar smokers from huddling outside building entrances getting their stogie fix really isn't there.

If the e-cigar tasted like a cigar instead of a cigarette, I could understand it on the grounds that a lot of women won't let their husbands smoke cigars in the house. But the way it is, with it tasting like a cigarette? No.