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>Nicotine salt versions of "vape juice" have been available for ages - unsure how Juul have managed to patent this (possibly when used in a cartridge system wit
by fmj 8y ago
>Nicotine salt versions of "vape juice" have been available for ages - unsure how Juul have managed to patent this (possibly when used in a cartridge system with a juul brand on it).
What sets Juul's liquid apart isn't the nicotine salts, which as you said have been done before. If I'm not mistaken Juul was the first company to use benzoic acid in their nicotine salts.
- jack_h 8y agoThey may have been the first in the e-liquid world, I'm honestly not sure. However, this has been studied by tobacco companies decades prior: https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/cttr.1983.12.issue-2/cttr-2013-0524/cttr-2013-0524.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/cttr.1983.12.issue-2... Also as a possible correction, they're not adding benzoic acid to nicotine salts, rather they're using benzoic acid and freebase nicotine to make nicotine benzoate - which is a nicotine salt. I may be misunderstanding your phrasing though, if I am I apologize.