Frustrating call from my "Quit Coach!"

[CraigHB]

Oh man, my health insurance contract is like a book. God help me if I ever actually have to read it. I'll just talk to one of their agents over the phone and see what they say. Thanks for the comment though.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

And how!

What is the wording in your contract..... is it nicotene related or smoking related.... cause I would figure that that would make a diference in the eyes of a judge. Even if it were tobaco related, isnt the nicotene in most juice made with synthetic nicotene (not technically a tobaco product I would think)

AFAIK "most" juice is made with nicotine that has been chemically extracted from tobacco. This is very cheap to buy in large quantities by the kilo from China. I don't know anything about synthetic nicotine. Tobacco is by far the best source for nicotine although it is present in tiny amounts in other nightshade family plants.

 

[TomCatt]

FYI: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...nthetic-nicotine-there-really-such-thing.html

 

[demon72]

AFAIK "most" juice is made with nicotine that has been chemically extracted from tobacco. This is very cheap to buy in large quantities by the kilo from China. I don't know anything about synthetic nicotine. Tobacco is by far the best source for nicotine although it is present in tiny amounts in other nightshade family plants.

Right.... so I guess it is still a tobaco product huh

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Well the FDA is regulating them as tobacco products so I guess the legal situation is that they are a tobacco product. Looking at it from a "common sense" "big picture" type view I think they are as much of a tobacco product as the Nicorette range. The fact is that from the FDA's testing they appear to contain similar levels of Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines to NRT products like Nicorette - hundreds of times less than the levels in Swedish snus and thousands of times less than a Marlboro.