Tobacco Flavor Safe?

[Gizmo362]

I can find lots of info on this forum about the ills of tobacco but nothing about the contents of tobacco flavors.

Is there anything we juicers (juce users) should be aware of in tobacco flavor? Is it dangerous and should I stop using it?

A little info would be useful.

Currently creating heavenly clouds of RY4 36mg on my 5v mod.

Regards

Gizmo

 

[Bekinder]

Gizmo, I sure hope not. I just ordered a couple of tobacco flavors from Happy Vapor along with a couple of other flavors. Ordered a large amt. of flavorless tob from Freedom
Smokes and want to try making my own tobacco flavs. Should not be any more dangerous
than other flavors would be my thought...and that danger would be almost nil...could be wrong...but someone with more knowledge will come along and maybe pitch in a more
knowledgeable answer.

 

[nycityjeff]

The tobacco flavors are NO different from any of the other flavors. They are equally safe

 

[TropicalBob]

Truth is, we don't know anything about how e-liquids are made -- or even what is in them, beyond what we're told by a maker. Early tests by Health New Zealand for Ruyan turned up a problem with flavorings, and Ruyan quietly got rid of those unnamed flavorings back in December 2007.

Early postings of liquid contents from E-Cig showed a tobacco oil heading the list, along with a number of tobacco extracts. The oil likely would create all the TSNAs of regular tobacco being combusted. But, again, we don't know. And we don't know if oil is still used. I used a flavor called Flue-cured Tobacco back then.

I've been at this two years and see no real reason to fear tobacco flavored liquids (we should not use a drug term like "juice" for e-liquid). I regularly inhale French Pipe and Heavy Shag (cigar) from Janty. But I do like RY4 better!

 

[Gizmo362]

Thanks for the reply TB.

I have been out of the loop for a while (26 Years) What drug is "Juice"?

 

[voltaire]

"Juice" is a common nickname for steroids. But I think a better reason to not use the word "juice" for e-liquid is in case children misunderstand and come to believe that the stuff in those little bottles (that often smells good) would be good to drink. 8-o

 

[TropicalBob]

True, and in no way is our nicotine-laced liquid "juice". It's just ... wrong .. on many levels.

 

[Madame Psychosis]

TB covered it pretty well.

My general view is that contaminants are always a concern in any flavors, tobacco or non-tobacco. But in terms of TSNAs, the tobacco flavors apparently have no more carcinogens than you'd get from standard NRT (the patch, etc.). And you're getting rid of the truly nasty stuff by not inhaling combustion products (i.e. smoking).

I've heard "juice" used in reference to a few different liquid methods of drug delivery. But drug slang can cover so many terms (the idea, after all, is to use more "everyday" terminology to refer to an illegal activity) that I often stop caring, get lazy, and just say "juice" to refer to e-liquid. Not a great habit, I admit -- because for better or for worse, language has a lot of cultural power, and we risk contaminating the public debate about PVs.

 

[Gizmo362]

The term "juice" got me to thinking "where did I come up with that kind of lingo"?

Before I started ghosting across this forum I had no idea of the concept, "juice".

Intrigued, I did a search across the forum for the word "juice" and found many refrences to it from many vetran members posts. Shockingly, I realized I must have absorbed it here from this forum.

Feeling adjectively inadequate I stand corrected and henceforth will make a concentrated effort to assure the good name of electronic personal vaprorizers is never sullied with this perverse verbage again. Thank you.

P.S. To TB: RY4 is "Da Bomb!"