But the manufacturer doesn't have to disclose that information if there's no regulation compelling them to, or they can downright lie if nobody's there watching them. Or just put random shit in there that hasn't been tested for safety.
>The results of one FDA review of 18 different e-cigarette cartridges found toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in some but not others. All but one of the cartridges labeled “no nicotine” did, in fact, contain nicotine. The authors suggest that “quality control processes used to manufacture these products are inconsistent or non-existent.”
> Flavorings: Goniewicz says hundreds of flavors exist, including cherry, cheesecake, cinnamon, and tobacco. Many of those flavoring chemicals, he says, are also used to flavor food.
>“These are the big unknowns,” he says. “When we eat them, they are safe, but we don’t know what’s going on when we inhale them.”
By switching to flavored vape cartridges, which the FDA then helpfully made illegal in a fit of moral panic.
Pity, because as far as anyone can tell, vaping is at least two orders of magnitude less deleterious to health than smoking.
So these days I refill my old cartridges and nurse a grudge against FDA. I haven't backslid to smoking, but if they ban high-nicotine salt juice entirely, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Most of the harms of ecigs go away if flavoring is removed. I've had people become upset at this suggestion, as if the flavor is the point rather than the inhalation of nicotine. Nicotine inhalers are an even better option. Sans flavor, of course.
The most popular flavored cigarette, menthol, wasn't banned. Cigarettes in flavors other than menthol never had the type of popularity vapes do now. Making e-juice is already a hobby/cottage industry and banning it won't make it go away.
Volcano electronic cigarette nicotine cartridges come in a variety of flavors. They provide a great smoking alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes.
I'll occasionally spring for a disposable vape during stressful times, and now the lack of flavored cartridges has me considering a pack of cigarettes.
Utter rubbish. Are flavoured boxes of chocolates and flavoured coffee syrups targeting highschoolers too just because they're flavoured?
Every vaper and ex-vaper I know or have ever met has used flavoured ecigs, including myself while I was quitting. A whiff of the vapour as they pass is enough to establish if they're using a fruity flavour etc. As I'm in my mid 50s and my friends are mostly 30s-60s I think it's safe to say we're not highschoolers.
The one and only time I tried a tobacco flavoured ecig I almost vomited it was so terrible. I think it's a flavour everyone tries as they switch. Tries just the once mostly - they are utterly unlike any cigarette.
I am confused. Most things in this article talk about tobacco products, but many e-juice and e-cig products actually do not contain tobacco, though they do contain nicotine. Is this just failure on the author's part, or is this bill not really going to affect e-cigs afterall?
E-cigs are NOT just water, nicotine, and flavoring. They contain propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine, flavoring, and sometimes water. Your bottles of e-juice should say this on them, actually.
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