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Survey finds teens unaware they are vaping nicotine
- grawprog 7y agoI don't like E-cigarettes. Every vape liquid i've tried, even low nicotine ones, make me feel like I just took a big haul on a fat cigar or something. I break into a cold sweat, my lip starts twitching. I can't stand them and the sweet candy flavours are nauseating. Even the tobacco flavoured ones have that candy flavour to them.
- PascLeRasc 7y agoYou might have a propylene glycol allergy. Have you tried 100% VG juices? Also there are a lot of excellent mint/menthol flavors out, especially when mixed with some kind of fruit flavoring.
- mayniac 7y agoThe sweet candy flavour is mainly a crap load of sweeteners and ethyl maltol. You can make your own liquid at home which uses far less EM/sweetener. It's also remarkably cheap, I pay about £10/month for the equivalent of 20 cigarettes a day. You can also reduce the nicotine concentration to lower than over the counter eliquid. If you're looking to quit smoking I definitely recommend it. There are a lot of good guides on /r/diy_ecig for starting out.
- alexandercrohde 7y agoI don't have a huge problem with this, mainly because it's my understanding that there are like 700 toxins in traditional smoking and that nicotine itself is actually not considered very unhealthy.
- CelestialTeapot 7y agoNicotine use supposedly causes "altered development of cerebral cortex and hippocampus in adolescents." That seems very unhealthy. [1] Also, the liquid refills can contain an acutely toxic concentration of nicotine. Enough to kill a small child with as little as half a teaspoon ingested or absorbed through the skin. [2] 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=25794473 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=25794473 2. https://www.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/12/12/aapnews.20141212-1 https://www.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/12/12/aap...
- acct1771 7y agoThis is one of the major downsides of the (overall good) transition to cannabis use in young people.
- gus_massa 7y agoNicotine is the addictive part. The other 699 toxins are only unhealthy contamination. (Anyway, I'd like to see a similar survey about traditional cigarettes.)
- lgats 7y agoTobacco also contains some fairly addictive, antidepressant-like compounds called Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI).
- vokep 7y agoNot really, nicotine isn't very addicting, its similar to caffeine in a lot of ways
- beenBoutIT 7y agoUnlike caffeine, nicotine and cocaine both cause vasoconstriction. Anti-drug propaganda aside, none of the 3 substances are particularly addictive and all three have they exact same withdrawal symptoms.
- intuitionist 7y agoNote that this article doesn’t say what percentage of teens claim to believe they’re vaping only non-nicotine products. With n = 500, and with about 20% of the sample vaping, if you assume that 20% of those kids are claiming to vape nicotine-free pods and 40% of those are misinformed or lying, you end up with... 8 kids out of 500 who said they avoid nicotine but actually don’t. Which is a non-story.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoYour scenario sounds horrific. If 1.5% of all teens are getting nicotine unknowingly, that's a huge story.
- intuitionist 7y agoAgreed, but that seems less likely to me than a handful of teenagers misunderstanding the question and/or deciding it would be funny to fuck with the researchers.
- ThJ 7y agoThat site doesn't like my ad blocker.