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An electronic cigarette uses an e-liquid that may contain nicotine (typically derived from the tobacco plant), glycerin, propylene glycol, flavorings, and other ingredients. [8] The device has an electric heat source that heats the e-liquid to create an aerosol that the user inhales. [8] Three components of a heated tobacco product. [9]
A vape shop in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States [1] A vape shop in Knaresborough, England. A vape shop [notes 1] is a retail outlet specializing in the selling of vaping products, [27] though shops selling derived psychoactive cannabis products have increased in the United States since the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill.
The nicotine levels in the e-cigarette vapor also varies greatly either from puff-to-puff or among devices of the same company. [1] Nicotine intake across users using same device or liquid varies substantially. [67] Puffing characteristics differ between smoking and vaping. [68] Vaping typically require more 'suck' than cigarette smoking. [69]
The FDA has yet to approve any flavoured vape using traditional nicotine for sale in the United States, saying companies have not been able to show that the health benefits they offer to smokers ...
In the United States, nicotine products and nicotine replacement therapy products like Nicotrol are only available to people 18 and above; proof of age is required; not for sale in vending machine or from any source where proof of age cannot be verified. As of 2019, the minimum age to purchase tobacco in the US is 21 at the federal level.
Electronic cigarettes are marketed to smoking and non-smoking men, women, and children as being safer than cigarettes. [1] In the 2010s, large tobacco businesses accelerated their marketing spending on vape products, [2] [3] similar to the strategies traditional cigarette companies used in the 1950s and 1960s.
There is low quality evidence that vaping assists smokers to quit smoking in the long-term compared with nicotine-free vaping. [149] Nicotine-containing e-cigarettes were associated with greater effectiveness for quitting smoking than e-cigarettes without nicotine. [150] A 2013 study in smokers who were not trying to quit, found that vaping ...
Nicotine in the form of nicotine replacement products is reported to be less of a cancer risk than smoking, [75]: 115 and they vaping had not been shown to be associated with cancer. [ 217 ] As of 2015 it was not possible to conclude that nicotine itself is a complete carcinogen.