An electronic cigarette vaporiser system that includes a touch sensor and is programmed to detect specific multiple different kinds of touch inputs and to control the vaporiser accordingly, and the touch sensor is included on a vaporiser and/or a case for the vaporiser. The touch inputs include one or more of the following: activate or de-activate the vaporiser; turn on or off lights on the vaporiser; dim the lights on the vaporiser; alter the colours of the lights on the vaporiser; alter the power delivered to the heating element.