Every time you take a drag on a e cig you are basicly "free basing" nic, just with a fancy device. It is no different what device you use, it just looks more gangsta' to do it in a oldschool device. There is a huge temp difference with a flame, thats a no brainer. This will change the chemical composition of the juice, and possibly have an altering effect to it. The coil takes the place of the lighter, and the little ceramic bowl in ur atty is no different than any other containment device. E cigs are easy to keep stocked and not hard to come by, but I wouldn't recommend goin oldschool in your vape methods. I think its still better than smkn a crappy cig for sure. Who is to say that a glass cig shaped device that you light on the end wouldn't be more a more durable device, you have a device that never breaks and the battery power last as long as your bic lighter does. I'm just trying to keep true to my sig below. I'm sure makin a tossed salad with a bag of redman would be just as dangerous. An RV manufacturer had to put a new warning in their instruction manual about cruise control, because some elderly guy put his RV on cruise control, then went in the back to make a sandwhich and crashed his RV into a pwr pole.