Eissenberg said he's concerned about how people are using the devices.
"If people are reporting what they are reporting about cravings, the data suggest it's not because of the drugs in the device," he said.
But Eissenberg said he's concerned about comments he has seen on blogs that some e-cigarette users are "dripping," or letting liquid from the devices' cartridges fall directly onto the heating element.
That means they may be getting relatively large doses of nicotine, which can be toxic in amounts of about 50 milligrams, Eissenberg said.
While the cartridges contain 16 milligrams, they can be refilled from bottles labeled as containing 500 milligrams, or 10 times the toxic dose, he said. "
Taken from a recent article published in the
Richmond-Times
So I'm paranoid, right? i don't know who this guy is but he obviously has trouble interpreting data as well as no understanding of what vaping is all about. And THAT was my point. It was not my intention to derail this post. I offer my apologies to "fatalis" and will not post here again unless I find any more killer deals on high nic liquids
Well, perhaps someone can inform the good doctor that dripping is simply doing what a cart would do if it is wicking properly. There is little difference between dripping and a fresh and juicy cart.
As for nic concentrations, I agree that there is zero reason that I can tell to go looking for essentially pure free-base nic, unless you intend to set up a very safe lab with all the ventilation and protections and make your own juice for sales production. And this is what many vendors do, and I believe Chris at MFS is in that camp. I know Adam at vtvapor is. Doing this to just save money without considerable training, as in
years, is just fool hearty and just makes you a candidate for another Darwin Award.
And telling someone who clearly does not have a background in chemistry or hazardous materials, and I assume fatalis does not have this background, to go get essentially pure free-base nic is
really suspect to me. This material is really really nasty...and even I will not ever work with it if I don't have to. Even the air becomes dangerous, and one little mistake and its all over...and nic death is definitely not a nice way to go. I have had debates with others here about this, and I remain firm: DO NOT SUGGEST BUYING AND USING PURE NICOTINE!! IMHO, anyone suggesting this is just causing trouble, and plenty of it. If the suggestion was made naively, fine, consider this a learning experience. Besides, while one can obtain free-base nic, it is not easy to do, however it is legal, believe it or not.
But for
anyone just wanting to make DIY juices for self use, even 60 mg unflavored requires serious care and precautions to store it and use it properly. A significant spill is indeed a deadly hazmat situation. I know how to work with these high-nic juices because I am a trained chemist, but few others here are. I have posted my procedures for working with 100 mg VG unflavored in the MFS forum, under "Smoke Storage Tips". Do exactly what I say, and you will be almost guaranteed safety and
very long term storage. And this is central, because it will take a
long time to go through 100 mg juice if its being used for reasonable nic-level DIY juices.
I personally think that unless you are very capable with hazardous liquids, consider buying only less than 60 mg juices. An accidental spill will be far more manageable.
These are of course my opinions, and I don't want anyone in particular to think I'm singling you out. They are, however,
professional opinions. And I agree with the previous poster, careless posting of clearly dangerous advice should not be tolerated here, and if we do not start being conservative with our posts we will be brought down. Anyone saying no one has been hurt yet should realize that these ultra-high concentrations of nic have been around for only several months, and I don't think Lady Luck will favor reckless behavior much longer.
And given the various nicced-up responses Dr. E got in his time here from PV cowboys into all their mods and voltages and high-nic juices, my guess is we have come across as crazy drug addicts in our own little bubble of a world, regardless of the valid suggestions he got for further studies, and he is certainly someone who can burst this bubble. Personally I was ashamed. Isn't a study showing very little nic absorbed from PVs something the FDA would
not want to have published, and something that plays into our hands better than PVs that can potentially poison someone?
Rant off. Sorry if it derailed things. Safety and common sense is something I am just not seeing enough of on ECF. This is a
publically available forum, for God's sake.