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An electronic cigarette (e-cigarette), or vape, [note 1] [1] is a device that simulates smoking. It consists of an atomizer, a power source such as a battery, and a container such as a cartridge or tank. Instead of smoke, the user inhales vapor. [2] As such, using an e-cigarette is often called "vaping". [3]
A noticeable difference between the traditional cigarette and the e-cigarette is sense of touch. [1] A traditional cigarette is smooth and light but an e-cigarette is rigid, cold and slightly heavier. [1] Since e-cigarettes are more complex than traditional cigarettes, a learning curve is needed to use them correctly. [9]
Various types of electronic cigarettes. An electronic cigarette is a handheld battery-powered vaporizer that simulates smoking by providing some of the behavioral aspects of smoking, including the hand-to-mouth action of smoking, but without combusting tobacco. [18] Using an e-cigarette is known as "vaping" and the user is referred to as a "vaper."
E-cigarettes have a wide array of engineering designs. [41] The differences in e-cigarette manufacturing materials are broad and often unknown. [46] Concern exists over lack of quality control. [47] E-cigarette companies often lack manufacturing standards [31] or are non-existent. [48] Some e-cigarettes are designed and manufactured to a high ...
Juul Labs, Inc. (/ ˈ dʒ uː l /, stylized as JUUL Labs) is an American electronic cigarette company headquartered in San Francisco. [1] Its flagship product is the Juul electronic cigarette, which atomizes nicotine salts derived from tobacco supplied by one-time use cartridges. [8]
Specialist insects on tobacco, such as the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta), have a number of adaptations to the detoxification and even adaptive re-purposing of nicotine. [180] Nicotine is also found at low concentrations in the nectar of tobacco plants, where it may promote outcrossing by affecting the behavior of hummingbird pollinators. [181]
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.
A heated tobacco product (HTP) [note 1] is a tobacco product that heats the tobacco at a lower temperature than conventional cigarettes. [32] These products contain nicotine , which is a highly addictive chemical. [ 32 ]