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Most of these preparations appear to contain benzoic acid as well, which is also added to a lot of prepared foods to increase shelf life. Inhaling benzoic acid
by photochemsyn 4y ago
Most of these preparations appear to contain benzoic acid as well, which is also added to a lot of prepared foods to increase shelf life. Inhaling benzoic acid doesn't sound like a very good idea, but otherwise you might be inhaling bacteria and fungal spores, or you'd have to keep the vape refrigerated, or have a sterile preparation production line which is quite expensive.
Lungs just aren't a very good means of drug delivery, no matter what the drug is.
- function_seven 4y agoThe benzoic acid is added to form a nicotine salt, which reduces the harshness for a given concentration (e.g. 12mg/ml of freebase nicotine will feel harsher than the same 12mg/ml* concentration of nicotine benzoate). I believe it also increases the absorption rate. Juul's patent on this: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150020824A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150020824A1/en * Considering only the mass of the nicotine portion.