And I’m sure you’ve never end rounded a pay wall before.

It’s the implication.

It’s not a defense. It’s a correction.

Juul’s nicotine content is not “insane”. It’s roughly equivalent to the content of cigarettes. Vape juice is also not “less than half that at the high end”, go spot check some online vape shops 50mg/ml is the typical high end, because it roughly matches the content of cigarettes.…

Spend 30 seconds doing your own home work. As I said elsewhere there are public and court records about this.

“Show me proof”

Juul’s nicotine content is not “insane”. The 5% by weight baseline they sit at is considered approximately the same as standard cigarettes. The lower nicotine 3% by weight pods are well below.

It’s also quite plausibly the source of the cardiac damage that comes with smoking. Which is #2 after lung cancer on the “cigarettes kill you” list.

Quite a lot occurs naturally. MInimally processed whole leaf tobacco cigarettes have near identical nicotine content.

There were nicotine free and low nicotine (and variable nicotine!) Cigarettes available at various times. They failed at market.

Dude there are court records. And Congressional testimony. They read those internal emails out on national TV.

Juul is 1/3 owned by Altria/Philip Morris.

It’s a check on the industry. Another shot across the bow.

It’s a bit many of us weren’t allowed to realize. You signed a promissory note as part of your financial aid application, and did not get to see the terms of your student loans until after they were picked and issued by the school administration. You weren’t directly notified until graduation. There was no cross…

“throat feel”, not the nicotine at the time. At this point, I need to put on my tin hat. It was reported years ago that the tobacco companies were breeding/engineering their plants to produce more nicotine. Put me down on the side of: if they reduce the actual nicotine content in tobacco, and don’t mess with the…

Convenience stores will often carry a brand of smokes for a single customer. And tobacco companies will often cut deals to ensure a placement of a particular product.

I know one person who ever smoked these. My college room mate’s mom. We used to pick up cartons from the 7 eleven on campus for her, because after a…

I dunno if you’ve ever attempted to quit smoking.

Those were a bit of a PR stunt. Barely available and un-advertised. I think I saw them once. They couldn’t really market them that way, but they were kind of a token gesture at a cessation system by the tobacco companies for ass coverage.

Vaping is actually associated with an uptick in new smokers, and an overall uptick in nicotine consumers. Particularly among younger people. The tobacco industry has marketed it heavily as the “safe” and “cool” option (look at all the scuttlebutt around Juul). It’s become a bit of an onboarding tool, with a large…

Multiple studies have shown the robut cigarettes are more effective than patches, gums, lozenges for smoking cessation. By a lot. One study found 19% of people quitting with vapes were no longer smoking at all after 1 year vs 9% for conventional replacement therapy (patches, gum etc).

In the short term yes. Which is why switching to light or ultra light cigarettes isn’t an improvement for a habitual smoker. People tend to not just smoke more of them, but inhale more deeply. With the proviso that there’s not all that much of a difference in nicotine levels here.