SMOK

Who Makes SMOK?

SMOK is made by Shenzhen IVPS Technology, the company the FDA named when it denied 22 SMOK products in January 2024.² The copyright line on SMOK's website in 2026 names a Hong Kong entity, Hong Kong IVPS International Limited.³

Bloomberg reported on August 23, 2021 that IVPS, which its website said was founded in 2010, was considering a Hong Kong IPO to raise at least $500 million.⁴

SMOK's own site is gated to visitors 21 and older. It says SMOK devices are intended for e-liquid that contains nicotine, and that they are not intended or authorized to be bundled for sale with e-liquid.³

SMOK FDA Denial Orders

SMOK's FDA record turned on January 16, 2024, when the agency issued marketing denial orders to Shenzhen IVPS Technology for 22 SMOK products: devices, pods, atomizers and cartridges including Nord 2, RPM 40, SCAR-P3, POZZ, Nfix and OSUB ONE items.²

The FDA said the applicant had not provided enough data to characterize constituent delivery, product stability and abuse liability. It also noted that SMOK was the sixth most commonly reported brand among current youth e-cigarette users in the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey. None of the 22 is a Novo 5, Nord 5, RPM 5 or Novo Axis product.²

None of those four kits is authorized either. The FDA's list of authorized e-cigarettes as of May 2026 names products from only five companies, Logic, R.J. Reynolds Vapor, NJOY, JUUL Labs and Glas.¹

SMOK Court Cases

SMOK's maker lost a federal court case over an FDA denial in July 2025, when the Fifth Circuit turned down a petition from Shenzhen IVPS Technology and ECIGRUSA, L.L.C., which does business as Worldwide Vape Distribution. The petition asked the court to set aside the FDA's denial of six open-system vaping devices and related components; the court held the denial was not arbitrary or capricious because the abuse-liability gap alone supported it.⁵

The SMOK name has also been before the US trademark board. In a precedential decision dated October 31, 2022, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board dismissed IVPS's opposition to Fancy Pants Products' SMOKES & Design mark, even though IVPS had pleaded eleven registered SMOK and SMOK-formative marks.⁶

SMOK Kits on the Current Lineup

SMOK's current lineup, as its site listed it in October 2026, runs to more than a dozen kits in three series. The Novo series has the Novo Axis Kit, Novo Axis EZ Kit, Novo 6 Ultra Kit, Novo Classy Kit and Novo 6 Kit; the Nord series has the Nord 6 Kit, Nord GT, Nord C Kit, Nord 5 and Nord 50W; and the RPM series has the RPM C Kit, RPM 85 and RPM 100, RPM 25W, RPM 5 and RPM 5 Pro, and RPM 4.³

The same site tags the Arco Digi Lite, Novo Axis Kit, Novo Axis EZ Kit, Sinch and Alpha Mix Kit as new arrivals. The older Nord 2 and RPM 40 named in the 2024 denial orders are not on that current list.

How to Spot a Fake SMOK

To spot a fake SMOK, SMOK points owners to its AB-QR code system: install the IVPS Tour app, version 2.2.1 or later, and scan Code A on the outer package, which shows whether the product has been activated and how many times the code has been scanned.⁷

Then scan Code B to activate and bind the product, and the app shows it as authentic. SMOK says a product the app reports as fake or not genuine should be passed over, and that if the app says 'not recorded yet' you should contact SMOK. The steps are on SMOK's product verification page.