E-Liquid with Tar!?!?

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Crash Moses

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From Wikipedia:

Tar is the common name for the resinous, partially combusted particulate matter produced by the burning of tobacco and other plant material in the act of smoking.

A poor translation for cigarette flavoring maybe? I don't believe that they could process actual tar and dissolve it in e-liquid. What would be the point?
 

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This looks like it is likely to be a Chinese juice. In my limited experience with Chinese juice what they mean by "tobacco tar oil" or "e-cigarette liquid with tar" means that it contains nicotine. This is probably due to mistranslation from Chinese to English. In English what we regard as tar is the partially combusted particulate from burning tobacco. Since there is no combustion with PVs there should be no tar at all.
 

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After reviewing the ingredients list, it would seem that the so-called tar is what we would call "tobacco absolute" which is a flavoring agent derived from tobacco itself.

That's been my guess is well, Tobacco Absolute, which has the look and feel of tar.

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How did you phrase your question?

If "tar" translates to "nicotine" then of course they would say yes. you might have even been asking the person who wrote the ad copy :)

I asked if they contained nicotine as well as tar or if it was possibly a translation error. People still post assumptions even after I asked them, so just go ahead and ask yourself.
 

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I asked if they contained nicotine as well as tar or if it was possibly a translation error. People still post assumptions even after I asked them, so just go ahead and ask yourself.

I also asked them Just now got a reply:
Thank you for pointing this out. We're removing this now.

So I guess they mean it's a bad translation. They didn't really answer my question, which was:
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Some people in the United States think that "tar" only means "nicotine" and is merely a bad and unfortunate translation. I am one of these people.

A FAR, FAR larger group of people in the United States believe that "tar" means all of the bad stuff. This group is very vocal and they advise everyone not to buy anything with "tar".

The Hangsen and DeKang eLiquids that you sell do not mention "tar",

I would like to know what "w/tar" really means in the actual contents.

Thank you
 
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