Yeah you read it right. That's for a zero nicotine cigarette. They're convinced that if they take out the nicotine everybody will just quit.
Ive noticed teenagers drawn more to the little pod or salt nic vapes. I've only ever seen one 18 yo dude with a full on sub ohm mod over the years. I really dont like those little disposables, I think they have too much nicotine and with a good flavor it's too easy to chain vape. They're horrible for the environment too. The batteries, all that plastic waste. I remember when all of the kids at the park used to smoke cigarettes though, now it's just replaced with vapes. So the number of teen vapers didn't really increase, it's just cause they stopped smoking cigarettes when vapes became more available. If vapes were around when I was in highschool I wouldn't have been smoking cigarettes.
More likely people would just chain smoke and find little to no relief. I guess eventually people would slow down? I don't see anyone buying it though. That's kinda like giving an alcoholic non alcoholic beer to stop drinking.
It would be interesting to get a list of what the 200 different substances are, and I would assume that most of the things on the so-called list exist around us, but it seems a little more dramatic to say that they do not belong in the lungs.
That quote means nothing without knowing what the chemicals are and how much there is of each one. Weed killer has some water in it, and so does ice tea. Does that mean you shouldn't drink ice tea, because it has some of the same chemicals as weed killer?
Yeah - politicians don't come cheap these days so big money gets to set the rules. What's good for billionaires and corporations isn't generally good for us plebs.
DIY'ing a mod is pretty easy. E.g. 3/4" ID pipe will happily hold an 18650. Want it conductive? Use copper. Want it non-conductive? Use PVC.
Well, I guess we knew it would happen eventually. The FDA is now coming after open-system ecig hardware that most of us use. Until yesterday I don't remember hearing much about the status of PMTAs for hardware. On January 16, 2024 the FDA rejected the PMTAs for 22 SMOK vaping products. More MDOs are probably coming soon.
"On Jan. 16, FDA issued marketing denial orders (MDOs) to Shenzhen IVPS Technology Co., Ltd for 22 SMOK brand e-cigarette products. The denied products include devices, pods, atomizers, and cartridges, which are part of an e-cigarette system marketed without an e-liquid. The company must not market or distribute these products in the United States or they risk FDA enforcement action."
FDA Denies Marketing of SMOK E-Cigarette Products
The Denied Products Do Not Meet the Necessary Public Health Standard and the Manufacturer Must Not Market the Products in the United Stateswww.fda.gov
"The denied SMOK e-cigarette products are not sold with an e-liquid. A consumer instead adds their separately purchased e-liquid into the device. Therefore, these SMOK products have the potential to be used with any e-liquid on the market and available to the consumer, which could include tobacco-flavored and non-tobacco flavored e-liquids. According to the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), SMOK was the sixth most commonly reported brand among current youth e-cigarette users, with 11.3% of middle and high school students reporting past 30-day use of SMOK products."
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