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Because smokers aren't nicotine addicts like heroin users are heroin addicts. One of the big effects of nicotine is that it reinforces habit formation. Smokers
by ThrustVectoring 11y ago
Because smokers aren't nicotine addicts like heroin users are heroin addicts.
One of the big effects of nicotine is that it reinforces habit formation. Smokers have a giant pile of situations where the unthinkingly obvious thing to do is to pull out a cigarette and start smoking it. Reprogramming the brain by replacing the action with "pull out an e-cig and start vaping" is much easier to do than not having a thing to do. If you don't have something else to replace the act with, you're probably going to do something like "think about how much you want a cigarette"
- mirimir 11y agoMy underlying point, which I should have made explicit, was that adding all those extra components to e-cigs was a risk. Arguably an unnecessary risk. Except for marketing, of course. Experimentally, it appears that GRAS by oral route doesn't necessarily mean that vaping is safe. But that's not very surprising. Vaping does involve heat, after all. Not burning, but perhaps high enough temperatures for components to react and degrade. Also, GRAS doesn't really mean "safe". It means that people have been using something forever, and it's not acutely toxic. So inertia and vested interests win. Vaping just glycerin and nicotine would arguably be a lot safer, no?