Artisanal Vapers? For Some, The Habit's About Much More Than Quitting Tobacco
5 years, 1 month ago

Artisanal Vapers? For Some, The Habit's About Much More Than Quitting Tobacco

NPR  

For Some, The Habit's About Much More Than Quitting Tobacco Enlarge this image toggle caption Kiszon Pascal/Getty Images Kiszon Pascal/Getty Images A Juul pod is not an e-cigarette is not a vape pen is not a mod, as any serious vaper can tell you. Evans says he used to be a "coil builder," though he now considers himself a "flavor chaser." A "coil builder" is someone who adjusts the size, shape and design of the device's coils to change the amount of vapor or the intensity of the flavors. Meanwhile, "flavor chasers" believe that making these same kinds of adjustments to the device can also affect the intensity of the flavors. "It's like an art form when people make them," Evans says.

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Thousands of e-cigarettes are pouring into the US despite FDA crackdown on fruity flavors
1 year, 6 months ago

Thousands of e-cigarettes are pouring into the US despite FDA crackdown on fruity flavors

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Time and again, the vaping industry has innovated around …

The great vape sham: How super-strength e-cigarettes conquered America
1 year, 9 months ago

The great vape sham: How super-strength e-cigarettes conquered America

Daily Mail  

Vaping hit the mainstream in the 2010s and was viewed as a safe smoking cessation tool that could finally wean millions of tobacco users off cigarettes. Though vapes have been touted as an offramp for cigarette smokers, a 2018 analysis in the Annals of Internal Medicine estimates 1.9 million American adults who vape have never smoked tobacco cigarettes. Despite prohibitions …

Column: If you vape THC, are you risking your life? That may depend on where you got it
4 years, 11 months ago

Column: If you vape THC, are you risking your life? That may depend on where you got it

LA Times  

Officials are beginning to understand more about who’s at risk of vaping-related lung injury, which can be life-threatening. “We are confident that vitamin E acetate is strongly linked to the EVALI outbreak,” the CDC’s principal deputy director, Anne Schuchat, told reporters in a telephone briefing Dec. 20. “There’s currently nothing prohibiting it other than the knowledge of what it can …

Vapers seek relief from nicotine addiction by turning to cigarettes
5 years, 3 months ago

Vapers seek relief from nicotine addiction by turning to cigarettes

LA Times  

Lucas McClain started smoking cigarettes in high school but switched to vaping after he heard e-cigarettes were a safer alternative. Another points out that it’s “strange” that she used the device to quit smoking cigarettes but is now “far more addicted to my Juul than I ever was to cigs.” “It sucks,” she said. In fact, San Francisco-based Juul Labs, …

Serious lung illnesses linked to vaping products, says CDC
5 years, 4 months ago

Serious lung illnesses linked to vaping products, says CDC

Al Jazeera  

Officials say people should avoid using e-cigarettes and THC products while they investigate the cause of lung problems. Sudden, serious lung illnesses that have struck people who used vaping devices have been tied in many cases to products that contain THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Health authorities have identified …

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