VAPEAST

by Alan Johnson

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Aug 01, 2022

Even those that have been vaping for a while can get a little confused when it comes to identifying the difference between mint vape juice, menthol vape juice, and vape liquids with the term ‘ice’ attached to their names. Many people even believe that mint and menthol are the same things, but there are some differences between the two flavors.

In the following article, we’ll take a closer look at the differences between mint and menthol vape liquid, how they affect different flavors, what you need to know before choosing your vape liquid, and much more! So, if you’ve been curious about trying mint or menthol, you’ll now have all the information you need.

What Is Mint?

Mint is a herb and is widely used as an ingredient in cooking as well as other recipes. The mint family includes other common herbs, including peppermint, wintergreen, spearmint, and lavender. You’ll probably recognize many of these herbs from popular essential oils and also as flavorings in a variety of vape liquids.

How Does Mint Affect Your Vape Juice?

Mint is often used to balance out other vape liquids. So, if you had a vape liquid that was too sweet, rich, bitter, or tart, then mint could be added to help try and balance out the flavor. In addition, people often find the flavor and aroma of mint refreshing, and it can help to elevate the effects of other flavors.

What Is Menthol?

Within the mint plant, there are a variety of other chemicals. However, menthol is easily the most well-known chemical component of mint. It’s menthol that gives mint that famous ‘cooling sensation’ that you’re probably already familiar with.

That chilling feeling is why menthol is often isolated from the mint plant and then used in a variety of different products, including medicines, vape liquids, health products, and beauty products. You’ll also commonly find menthol in most cold and flu medicines.

What Does Menthol Taste Like?

Like mint, menthol is a common ingredient in many vape liquids. What you may not know is menthol, once isolated from the mint plant, has no flavor! After isolation, all you are left with is that chilling or cooling sensation but no flavor at all. You probably didn’t know this, but menthol is an organic compound found naturally in various other forms. Menthol added to a vape juice will give you a cooling sensation on your lips, in your mouth, throat, and lungs as you inhale and exhale.

Why Does Menthol Give You a Cold Sensation?

That’s a great question! Menthol contains chemicals that attach themselves to the neurons inside your mouth when you inhale. This causes the ion channel to open and gives your receptors the feeling of being exposed to coolness. This message is then sent to your brain, which translates into a cool sensation. Interesting fact, if you drink a cool glass of water after vaping menthol, your brain will think that it’s much colder than it really is!

What’s the Difference Between Mint and Menthol?

To put it very simply, mint is a flavor, and menthol is not. However, not all mint-flavored vape liquids will give you the cooling sensation of an actual menthol vape liquid. Due to the extraction methods used, artificial flavoring and synthetic flavoring, many mint vape liquids contain no menthol at all.

It’s also important to note that adding menthol to a vape liquid can increase that ‘throat hit’ feeling and effect and make it feel harsher than it really is. This is particularly important to note when you’re buying nic salt e-liquids as the menthol effect on throat hits can be even more noticeable.

What’s the Difference Between Ice and Menthol?

The ice part of e-liquid is always generally menthol in any e-liquids. However, many manufacturers label their e-liquids as ice rather than menthol just because it sounds a little cooler than just saying plain menthol.

What to Know Before Choosing a Mint or Menthol Vape Juice

Now you should have an obvious idea about the difference between mint vape liquid and menthol vape liquid. Before you choose to buy your next mint or menthol vape liquid, there are some things you need to consider, including:

• Strength– The higher the nicotine level of your vape liquid, the stronger the throat hit will be and the harsher the effects. Menthol can make that
• Throat Hit– That sensation you experience at the back of your throat when you inhale is known as the throat hit. If you love throat hits, you’ll love adding menthol, but if you don’t, that’s something you need to consider.
• Safety– Before you choose any vape juice take the time to check out their reviews and customer feedback, what ingredients they use, and what sort of quality assurances they give on their website.

How To Choose The Right Vape Juice?

Choosing the right vape juice can always be a little hit or miss when you first start vaping. We highly recommend trying various flavors and strengths until you narrow down what flavor profiles you prefer and how strong they are. Rather than buy large bulk amounts of flavors at the beginning, try shopping for flavor sample packs.

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Mint Vape Juice vs. Menthol Vape Juice: What’s the Difference? – Conclusion

Now you know everything there is to know about the differences between mint vape juice and menthol vape juice! Unfortunately, with so many different e-liquid brands available, it’s not always easy to determine the differences between certain flavors. Still, hopefully, now you’ll know whether or not to order menthol or mint vape liquid and won’t get any unwelcome surprises when you vape your new e-liquids.

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Rumours circulating this week that the Biden administration is about to put its weight behind mandatory nicotine reduction in combustibles will have been music to the ears of 22nd Century Group, if few others outside the worlds of tobacco control and politics. And questions are sure to arise as to how it might affect e-cigarettes too, either in the form of increased (or reduced) competition or possible parallel regulation.

22nd Century is the company which late last year obtained modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) orders from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for two of its very-low-nicotine cigarettes (VLNCs), containing around 96% less nicotine than standard combustibles.

The FDA’s support for reducing nicotine is nothing new; former commissioner Scott Gottlieb was talking about it back in 2018, and though the issue disappeared from the spotlight for a while it has always been lurking. Last year’s MRTPs, and the increasing (largely misleading) demonisation of nicotine itself rather than tobacco smoking specifically, make it no surprise that the VLNC concept has returned to the forefront.

If mandatory reduction were introduced, who would benefit? 22nd Century (which is already reporting encouraging results from trial sales in Chicago), obviously, and presumably other tobacco companies which would, however unwillingly, have to convert their existing brands.

For vapour and heated tobacco, the devil would be in the detail. The signs so far are that nicotine reductions would not necessarily apply to them, in which case retaining the capability to deliver current nicotine levels would confer a very significant competitive advantage over reduced-nicotine combustibles.

However, given the generally negative policy-making mood toward nicotine in general and vaping in particular, it’s not inconceivable there would be political pressure to include them – even if there would be an equally strong imperative to provide some kind of credible, regulated off-ramp for smokers who won’t put up with VLNCs.

Don’t hold your breath

Nothing will happen quickly. Even if the White House does weigh in, the FDA will still need to formulate a rule and open it for comment; there will be opposition to contend with, from the tobacco industry (this time with defensible science on its side) and likely from the tobacco states too.

There is a political dimension as well, with the midterms coming later this year and another presidential election in 2024.

Most tobacco control measures (for example Tobacco 21 or health warnings) do not directly impact existing smokers, or (as with public place smoking restrictions) only inconvenience them. But mandatory reduction of nicotine to minimal amounts threatens their habit existentially, and although there is some evidence to suggest that smokers are less likely than non-smokers to vote, this could encourage them to do so.

With many elections depending on relatively small majorities, it raises the prospect of political parties – or individual candidates – opposing VLNCs specifically to push smokers to the ballot box. Indeed, 22nd Century’s FDA-permitted claim that reducing nicotine will “help you to smoke less” could become a test of smokers’ oft-expressed intentions to quit; many may, in reality, prefer to follow the lead of St Augustine when he asked the Lord to “make me pure – but not yet”.

– Barnaby Page ECigIntelligence staff

Photo: Olga Konstantinova

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Have you found your favourite Dinner Lady flavour? But found yourself wishing you could alter the consistency? Perhaps you’d add more VG for excellent vapour production?

If you’ve thought about mixing your own e-liquid supplies but are not sure how to make your own e-liquid at home, this guide is for you. Read on to find out what you need to make unique e-liquid flavours.

COMPONENT ONE: FLAVOUR CONCENTRATES

Determining what your e-liquid tastes like, flavour concentrates are the most important component in DIY e-liquids.

Concentrates consist entirely of Propylene Glycol (PG) and food-grade flavourings. Alone, PG is a great flavour carrier that can be mixed with nicotine and VG diluent to create all vaping styles and taste preferences.

There are plenty of flavours to choose from, and each Concentrate can be combined with others to concoct unique flavour profiles.

COMPONENT TWO: NICOTINE

Like Shortfills, Concentrates are nicotine-free and nicotine is an optional addition to DIY e-liquids. You can choose to mix your DIY formulations with nicotine to create an e-liquid with a strength that is best suited to you, or completely omit nicotine from your liquid.

Nicotine Shots can be added to flavour concentrates to create an e-liquid with a nicotine strength of your choice. Adding a 5ml, 18mg Nic Shot to a 30ml Concentrate will create an e-liquid with a 3mg nicotine strength. Adding a 10ml, 18mg Nic Shot to a 30ml bottle will create an e-liquid with 6mg nicotine.

COMPONENT THREE: VG DILUENT

Vegetable Glycerin (VG) is of a thicker consistency than PG and creates large clouds of vapour. Depending on how much vapour you like, VG can be mixed with concentrates for a cloud-chasing experience.

ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS: BOTTLES, LABELS AND MORE

Spare, empty bottles are needed to add your final e-liquid mixture to. Labels are also handy to note down each component, making sure that you can replicate the concoction if there’s something you particularly like.

Vapers should be careful when handling and storing any DIY e-liquid component, taking care to keep out of reach of children and minimise skin contact.

MAKING YOUR OWN E-LIQUIDS AT HOME

DIY vape juice can be made with as little as three components: Concentrates, VG diluent and, if required, Nicotine Shots. Bottles and labels are handy to store your components and finished e-liquids clearly.

For more DIY e liquid tips and tricks, read Dinner Lady’s ultimate guide to concentrates.

by Alan Johnson

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Aug 02, 2022

We’ve all had a sneaky vape somewhere that probably wasn’t ideal, but there’s a good chance we all have our favorite places to vape at the same time. Some may just be memorable times and locations that you’ve vaped. Others could be a regular favorite location that you love to fire your vape up at.

One of the best things about vaping is that it’s 100% portable. You can take your vaporizer with you, and this allows you to vape while you have fun or even experience some of the most scenic locations in the world.

At the same time, you can whip out your vaporizer and have a vape almost 24/7, day or night. So when you compare vaping to smoking, you really have so many more options. For a lot of people, vaping has changed their lives.

In the following article, we’ll take a look at some of the regular and popular places and times that vapers love to get their vape on! If you have a favorite location or regular place to vape, then drop a comment below! We’d love to hear about it!

Some of the Most Popular Vaping Locations and Occasions!

We all have our favorite places to vape. For some people, their favorite place could be the beach, a scenic lookout, or just relaxing and chilling with friends. One of the best things about vaping is that you can pretty much take your vaporizer with you wherever you go. We know that there are some places you’re not allowed to vape, but there are also some great locations out there in the world where you can fire up your vaporizer and relax.

Below are just some of our favorite places and times to vape!

 When You Wake Up

One of the first things that many vapers do when they wake up is reach for their vape and load up with their favorite breakfast vape liquid. I know it’s one of the first things that I do! When you wake up, do you grab your drink of choice and have a quick vape, or do you wait a little while until you’ve been awake longer? You’ve probably heard of ‘wake and bake,’ but are you part of the wake and vape crew?

While You’re At Work

Vaping while you work is great if you work from home, work remotely, or even work outdoors. While not all of us are fortunate to work remotely or outdoors, or in a workplace where we can vape the day away, vaping during the day on your work breaks is still a pretty popular place for everyone to fire up their vapes. There’s nothing like breaking up a long and boring day at work by blowing some clouds of your favorite vape juices. Are you lucky enough to be able to vape while you’re at work, or do you have to wait for your breaks so that you don’t catch heat from the boss?

While You Enjoy A Coffee

Who doesn’t love coffee? Even if you don’t love traditional coffee and prefer iced coffee or tea, or even an energy drink, vaping while you enjoy your drink is incredible! It’s easy to fall into a habit. Vaping replaces traditional cigarettes for many people, giving them another option. However, smoking and having a cup of coffee or a drink is a big part of many people’s routines, and vaping generally falls into that category. If you love a good vape and a drink, then drop us a comment below with your favorite drink!

Hanging with Friends

Hanging with friends, throwing a frisbee, having a few drinks, or rocking out at a concert are all great social occasions, and vaping definitely goes well during gathering with friends. We’ve come a long way from being stuck in small rooms while someone blows cigarette smoke in our faces. Do you and your friends like to hang out and vape together? Compare your vapes, share your favorite vape liquids, and much more! If you love hanging out with friends and vaping, then you’re our kind of people!  

While You Party

Who doesn’t love a good party? It doesn’t matter what the occasion is. If you love vaping and partying, then there’s a good chance that you’ll be doing both as often as possible! There are a bunch of reasons to have a party. Birthdays, anniversaries, special occasions, holiday events, and many more. It’s not unusual these days to find a group of vapers hanging out together at a party and talking about their favorite eliquids or vape mods. If you love to party and vape, there’s a good chance that we might meet up at a party one night!

Where Do You Love to Vape? – Conclusion

That is just some of our personal favorite times and places to fire up our vaporizer! One of the great things about vaping is that it’s very personal. When and where you enjoy vaping could be completely different from someone else, and that’s okay!

Do you have a favorite place or time to vape? Share some of the best times you have ever vaped below! We’d love to hear all about some of the places you get to fire up your vaporizer.

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It’s surely a truism that no one ever won an argument or changed anyone’s mind simply by making an assertion. A traditional tactic of those who could give no sound reasoning to support a potentially contentious view was to claim God was on their side.

These days – outside those fundamentalist enclaves where the God card still trumps reason – for God substitute Science.

There’s really no way to counter either, other than by counter-assertion: God/Science is on my side, not yours.

If this sounds unproductive, an unlikely route to agreement on anything, it remains all too common. Not least in the world of e-cigarettes and vaping regulation.

As far as ECigIntelligence can tell, God has no opinion on the subject. Science, almost equally unhelpfully, has plenty of opinions – and they don’t all agree.

Which leaves the world divided between those who will swear e-cigarettes are an enormous boon to public health, and those equally adamant that they are a snare and a danger. And both will claim vehemently that the science is on their side.

The ECigIntelligence archives are ram-full of examples to demonstrate this divide, with another plum example this week in our account of events in the Swedish parliament.

Tribal origins

On one side we had the government asserting that there was “little research” to support industry claims that e-cigs helped smokers quit, but “more evidence” that fruit or candy flavours are a manufacturers’ ruse to attract young customers.

On the other side was the equally familiar argument that e-cigs do aid smoking cessation, and that flavours are vital in helping them do so.

You pays your money and you takes your choice (and there’s relevance in that old saying, too).

Yup, it’s all about flavours again. This time the non-government, pro-vape side won the vote. But with both sides claiming to have the science in their corner, the decision, as ever, really comes down not to reason or debate but to already-held views. And they, more than most people would like to admit, owe a lot to such tribal matters as your political allegiance, your religion or your country.

In the US, for example, you’ll find most Democrats are anti-vaping but pro-cannabis, while most Republicans are the opposite. However illogical both those contradictory positions are, it’s all to do with history – fascinating social history that we have neither time nor space to go into here. Suffice to say tribal belonging engenders “gut feeling” that has little or nothing to do with reason or science.

And talking of tribalism and contrary positions, what chance would you say harm reduction specialist Alex Wodak has of persuading his fellow Australians to follow New Zealand’s example on e-cig regulation? Or, indeed, on anything else?

– Aidan Semmens ECigIntelligence staff

First introduced to the market in 2003, e-cigarettes have changed considerably in size and style.

First launched as a cig-a-like device in the design of a cigarette, the original e-cig device was limited in both design and customisation. Now available in the form of pens, pods and mods, there is an e-cigarette for every preference and vaping style. Compatible with thousands of e-liquid flavours and a range of vaping styles, e-cigarettes have come a long way in the last 18+ years.

Although providing more flexibility and choice for advanced vapers, more advanced vape kits can be too complex and complicated for those new to vaping, and for the average vaper. After all, many of us prefer to test the waters before committing our time and hard-earnt money to something we are not 100% sure on. 

Combining the convenience of pen-style devices with the flavourful advantage of advanced vape kits, Dinner Lady’s disposable Vape Pen provides a great entry into the world of vape for adult smokers looking for a less harmful alternative to tobacco products. With a portable design and excellent flavour range, Dinner Lady’s e-cig is the best e-cig for new and experienced vapers alike. 

HOW DO E-CIGARETTES WORK?

Though there are many different types of e-cigarette available on today’s vape market, disposable pens share the same purpose: to provide a less harmful alternative to tobacco products.

An e-cig is an electronic device designed to heat flavoured e-cig liquid into vapour. Unlike a cigarette, e-cigs are free from tobacco.

5 REASONS YOU’LL LOVE DINNER LADY’S DISPOSABLE VAPE PEN

Dinner Lady’s Vape Pen is undoubtedly one of the best e-cigarettes on the vape market today.

1. PORTABLE DESIGN

The Vape Pen is slim and compact, weighing just 16.7g when full and measuring only 10cm in length. Forget chunky devices with complicated buttons and operating systems, the Vape Pen is draw-operated for use of use.

2. FLAVOUR RANGE

Available in 13 premium Dinner Lady e-cigarette flavours across six flavour ranges, the e-cig offers some of the very best flavours on the vape market. Prefilled with 50:50 Nic Salt e-liquid, the disposable provides a mouth to lung (MTL) vape that most closely resembles the throat hit sensation you experience when smoking a traditional cigarette.

3. 400 PUFFS – NO FLAVOUR FADE

With a 350mAh, grade A Li-Ion battery, 5ml e-liquid capacity and improved 1.6ohm coil with bespoke mixed cotton wick, Dinner Lady’s e-cig promises up to 40 puffs. That’s right, with Dinner Lady’s Vape Pen, you will receive the vape equivalent of up to 20 cigarettes for just £3.99 per e-cigarette.

4. CONVENIENCE

No refilling, no recharging and absolutely no coil changing, the Vape Pen is ideal e-cig for beginners who require a simple yet effective vape device. No fuss, no leaks, just 400 puffs of your favourite premium e-cig juice.

When finished, simply dispose, and start a new pen.

5. STYLE

There’s no denying, the Vape Pen has style. Made from premium, food-grade stainless steel, Dinner Lady’s disposable e-cig has a metallic finish that looks great.

DINNER LADY VAPE PEN: THE BEST E-CIG?

If you want an e-cigarette that combines the ease of a pen with the flavour advantages of a box mod, look no further than Dinner Lady’s Vape Pen. Available in 13 premium e-cigarette flavours, promising up to 400 puffs with no flavour fade and designed to be conveniently slim and compact, Dinner Lady’s disposable e-cigarette promises no fuss, no leaks, just great flavour at a great price.

What is a Vape Coil?

The coil is an essential part of any e-cigarette or vaping device, yet it is often an afterthought for those who decide to buy a vape. The coil functions to heat up your e-liquid and turn it into vapor.

It’s wrapped with a thick wicking material that soaks up the e-liquid, receiving heat from the battery to turn the juice into vapor. This makes the coil of a vape the fundamental element to it working, meaning you should take care when deciding which type of coil is suitable for your vape.

Regular coils are intended to provide low resistance so that you receive an intense vapor that enhances your vaping experience. However, your vapor density can be improved and made more efficient by swapping out a regular coil for a mesh one. 

Mesh coils and traditional coils are designed with different structures of metal, each with various advantages and disadvantages. Here’s the rundown you need to know about the differences between the two:

What is a Regular Coil?

A regular coil is comprised of single wire strands which are ‘coiled’ to form the spiral heating element, which produces vapor. There are also multi-core standard coils available on the market, such as dual, triple, and quad-core coils, which provide more surface area for the wicking material to burn for an efficient experience.

Why Are There Two Types of Coils?

You may wonder why there is any need for there to be two types of coils. Mesh coils and regular are prevalent in different types of vapes due to their suitability for other vaping devices.

Although mesh coils have become increasingly more common and standard in the vaping industry, they don’t appear in all types of vapes because mesh cores are almost always used in Sub Ohm coils. A Sub Ohm coil is a coil with a resistance of less than 1.0ohm, whereas a mouth-to-lung coil exceeds 1.0ohm of resistance and uses a standard wire.

This means that regular coils are often found in disposable vapes and vape pod systems. Standard coils are better suited to these systems because they can adapt to being built in a smaller volume than mesh coils.

Traditional coils can also be used in this capacity because they tend to have less longevity than mesh coils, meaning they’re suited to a pod or mouth-to-lung starter kit since they are housed in small vape pods with low wattage.

Regular vs. Mesh Coils

Similarities:

While both mesh and standard coils work toward the same goal, they have different effects in doing so. The main similarity which any regular and mesh coil share is that they both act like the heating element for your e-juice.

This means that both types of the coil will ignite when you press the firing button on your battery (or inhale on automatic vapes.) As both coils heat up, they act to evaporate your e-liquid so that you can inhale it.

Differences:

• Increased Surface Area on Mesh Coils

The first significant difference between regular coils and mesh ones is a matter of surface area. Mesh coils feature a larger surface area which allows them to heat up the vape juice at a faster rate.

This also means that mesh coils offer more uniform heating because the same amount of current is spread across a wider surface area. With a mesh coil, there are lower chances of experiencing a dry hit or burnt hit than with a regular coil because of this increased surface area.

• Mesh Coils Get Less Hot than Regular Coils

Because of their larger surface area, mesh coils don’t get extremely hot like their spiral counterparts. This means that they are often characterized by a cooler vaping experience and tend to last longer than regular coils. In addition, this allows mesh coils to produce a more considerable vapor volume and more flavourful taste than normal coils.

Advantages of Mesh Coil

Mesh coils boast a ton of great benefits for flavor and cloud chasers. Mesh coil technology has the upper hand over regular coils due to its characteristic large surface area, which maintains uniform heating. Here are some key advantages of a mesh coil:

Fast Heating Times:

Mesh coils work faster than regular coils, meaning they offer a more robust and more effective hit than their counterparts, delivering a better flavor and vapor.

Better Vapor Production:

Due to their more significant surface area, mesh coils provide a better flavor delivery. This means that a vape with a mesh coil will provide massive vapor and better flavors from your e-juice, improving the vaping experience.

Consistency:

Most vapers agree that not all hits are born equal. If you experience inconsistent vape hits, chances are your coil design does not uniformly get into contact with your cotton wick. With mesh coils, the whole surface area of the wick is covered, so the coil is heated evenly. This means that all hits will be the same from a mesh coil.

Longevity:

Since mesh coils heat the surface area evenly, there is a significantly decreased likelihood of having a burnt coil. This means that you have to replace mesh coils much less often than regular coils, saving you plenty of time and money.

Power Requirement:

Mesh coils require less power to achieve optimum performance, meaning you can save your battery power and increase your battery service life.

Disadvantages of Mesh Coil:

Although mesh coils are categorically more effective than their standard counterpart, they do have some disadvantages:

E-Juice Consumption:

Mesh coils will consume more e-liquid due to their increased surface area. Unfortunately, this means that huge clouds and strong flavor generation come at the cost of drinking more liquid, meaning your tank will require more frequent top-ups.

Health Concerns:

Although it is currently believed that there is little medical harm to vaping in comparison to smoking, there are still no long-term facts in contrast to spans of tobacco research.

If it comes to light that there are risks associated with VG or PG inhalation, then massive long-distance inhalation from mesh coils will exacerbate the possible health effects. This means you should be cautious when using a vape mesh coil. If you find yourself getting a cough after using a mesh coil or developing strange symptoms, be sure to consult your doctor.

Conclusion:

It’s clear that with mesh coil’s superior surface area and uniform heating, they have plenty of benefits compared to regular coils, such as larger clouds, better flavor production, and a cooler vaping experience. However, traditional coils still have their place, especially for those who want to save more money on vape juice.

You may even opt for a regular coil if you are an ex-smoker trying to replicate the feeling of smoking since standard coils produce a warmer vapor.

You should also remember that several of the advantages of mesh coils are subjective. For instance, you may find the intensity of flavor or cloud production from a mesh coil to be unpleasant. Therefore, to find the perfect coil to suit your needs, the best thing we can recommend is that you try out both coils to see which one suits you the best!

The review of England’s tobacco policy commissioned by the British government and compiled by Javed Khan has attracted much attention for its enthusiastic endorsement of e-cigarettes as a path to smoking cessation. It certainly seems to strengthen the likelihood that the UK will retain its place as one of the most officially pro-vaping countries in the world (and maybe we didn’t even need a 101-page document to confirm that; there are few signs of back-pedalling). But could it also have lessons for the rest of the world, even for countries where there is far more hostility toward novel tobacco products?

Two academics, one British and one American, believe it should be required reading in the halls of US tobacco-control power. They – Caitlin Notley of the University of East Anglia and Clifford Douglas of the University of Michigan’s Tobacco Research Network – argue in a new article that “the UK and New Zealand are now leading the way in the battle to end the epidemic of smoking-related illness and death. The US can learn from them.”

In particular, they contrast Khan’s recommendations and New Zealand’s Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 plan, which also positively encourages vapour, with an America that is “mired in a polarized debate” and where efforts to curb youth e-cigarette use have “led to significant public misunderstanding regarding the substantially lower health risks of e-cigarettes compared to combustible tobacco products. This, in turn, has impeded the promotion of tobacco harm reduction to the more than 30 million adults who still smoke.”

Bright spots in the US landscape

So far, so familiar. But the authors do not entirely write off the prospects of enlightened regulation in the US, and there are brighter spots on its tobacco-control landscape too, they say: for example, the proposed reduction of nicotine in combustibles to minimal levels, and the prohibition of menthol in combustibles, as well as the few marketing orders that have been granted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for e-cigarettes.

While most in the industry and in the vaping community consider the number of e-cigarettes the FDA has been willing to approve to be ridiculously small, at least allowing some to remain on the market while simultaneously reducing the appeal of combustibles through those other measures suggests – according to Douglas and Notley – that the agency has not completely forgotten about the continuum of risk. (Even if many lawmakers and pundits seem to have done so.)

This is perhaps Notley and Douglas’s most interesting point, and it is not the harm-reduction world’s (or the industry’s) usual way of seeing the FDA’s premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) process. Many regard the wholesale rejection of so many applications as amounting, in practical effect, to a near-ban on the category. And yet as these researchers imply, the fact that even a small number have been approved indicates that the FDA does accept that alternatives to combustibles can, in some circumstances, be appropriate to the protection of public health.

In other words, while the glass is definitely more than half-empty and nowhere approaching half-full, it’s still not totally empty.

Ways ahead

Let’s not be Pollyanna-ish about it. It’s vanishingly unlikely that the US will turn into a vape-friendly UK or New Zealand overnight. For example, even if we can suspect – from the fact that the mandatory low-nicotine regime so far looks likely to apply only to combustibles, and not to alternatives – that the FDA is not committed to total war on nicotine, it still looks (judging by the PMTA outcomes) committed to a total war on flavours.

And there are still plenty in Congress and other places of influence who are so blinded by the words “nicotine” and “children” that they are quite unable to discern a continuum of risk, an off-ramp, or anything else positive in alternatives.

Still, if nothing else, Douglas and Notley’s article reminds us that there are ways ahead. The US is not going to embrace the Khan model, of course, and the vapour market in that country is not going to return to the free-for-all of a few years ago – but an opening could nevertheless exist to remind regulators that the continuum of risk exists, and that alternatives occupy a better place on it than combustibles.

– Barnaby Page ECigIntelligence staff

Squonking is a vape method that involves the use of a peculiar vaping device: a squonk mod. Squonk mods use the same mechanics as Rebuildable Dripping Atomisers (RDAs) without the faff of manual dripping.

SQUONKING: A BRIEF HISTORY

Not so long ago, when vape was a new phenomenon, the vaping world was full of modified vape kits and DIY e-liquids. It was difficult to find or make a vape kit as advanced as they are today, so vapers took matters into their own hands. Searching high and low to achieve the very best flavours, dedicated vapers found that dripping e-liquids onto cotton delivered incredible flavour.

And so Rebuildable Drip Atomisers (RDAs) were born. Without a tank, an RDA involves manually feeding the wick by dripping e-liquid directly onto it. RDA vaping is well-loved for providing the perfect hit of flavour and vapour every time.

However, manually dripping e-liquids onto cotton was time-consuming and unpractical. Thus, bottom-feeding atomizers were born. With a hole in the bottom, e-liquids are fed from the bottom and up through a tube to eliminate the mess and faff of dripping e-liquids from a tank at the top.

Cue squonking.

Squonk mods allow vapers to bottom-feed their vape juices up from the bottom of the connector to eliminate the manual element of dripping e-liquids down onto coils through a mouthpiece. With squonk mods, e-liquids are squeezed upwards from a reservoir to eliminate mess and fuss, saving vapers heaps of time and hassle.

There was one huge drawback, though. Many of these DIY kits were unregulated and could be dangerous when used incorrectly. There were numerous cases of squonk mods exploding or setting on fire due to vapers putting too much strain on a battery or not setting up the mod properly.

Though the market has advanced and regulated mech mods are available to buy, there is further disappointing news for UK and EU vapers – squonk mods are not available for sale within any country in the European Union due to TPD regulations.

As per the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), all vape devices cannot have tanks that hold more than 2ml of e-liquid. As squonk kits have a bigger e-liquid reservoir, the sale of squonk mods is not allowed in the UK vape market.

VAPING WITH SQUONK MODS IN THE UK

While TPD regulations prevent stores from stocking mech mods in the UK and EU, this does not make it illegal to use them.

Many vapers continue to build their own mechanical mods. However, vapers should use only use regulated mods with extreme caution. Inexperienced vapers especially should avoid building their own vape kits due to the serious risks and dangers involved.

WHAT MAKES SQUONKING SO GOOD?

Squonking incorporates a battery, bottle and dripper. Unlike an RDA, squonk mods contain an e-liquid reservoir, meaning vapers get the convenience of a traditional e-cig with the excellent flavour of an RDA.

Dripping is a manual and messy process that takes time. It also involves the risk of over dripping which can flood your vape kit. Squonking eliminates the need for manual dripping, providing a quick and convenient vape that maintains the excellent flavour of an RDA mod. With a bottom-feeding dripper that pulls liquid through, squonk mods also eliminate the risk of flooding your device.

ARE SQUONK MODS THE SAME AS RDAs?

At its core, a squonk mod uses the same mechanics as an RDA, with one major difference.

Instead of relying on the dripping method, squonk mods incorporate on an internal e-juice reservoir that can store significant quantities of e-juice. With a squeeze of the bottle, the e-liquid is fed upwards through the mod and directly into the RDA. The result is essentially a hybrid design between a standard mod and an RDA that is much more convenient.

SO, ARE THERE ANY DOWNSIDES?

There’s a downside to everything. Even vaping.

While squonk mods are undoubtedly more convenient than RDAs, their large e-liquid reservoir makes it difficult to change flavours often. The large reservoir means less refilling and overall less hassle, though it does mean using the same flavoured e-liquid for a longer period of time.

This is no issue, however, to vapers who have found their favourite e-liquid flavour – we’re looking at you, Lemon Tart fans. Or for those who don’t mind sticking to the same e-liquid flavour for a longer period of time.

WHAT IS THE BEST SQUONK MOD?

To put it simply, the best squonk mod is a regulated squonk mod. Made with regulated controls and components, regulated squonk mods have exceptional safety features that protect vapers against malfunctions.

HOW TO BUILD A SQUONK MOD

Due to the complexity of building your own vape kit and the dangers involved with handling powerful batteries, it is best to choose a regulated squonk mod. Opting for a regulated squonk mod ensures both your own and others safety.

by Alan Johnson

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Aug 08, 2022

One of the big marketing points for e-cigarettes and vaporizers is that they’re primarily considered to be a safer alternative than traditional tobacco cigarettes for people. However, what isn’t talked about very often is the environmental risk that disposable vaporizers pose or how much of an impact e-cigarettes have on the environment compared to traditional cigarettes.

In the following article, we’ll take a closer look at how smoking regular cigarettes stacks up against e-cigarettes and what risk they pose to the environment.

Disposable vaporizers pose a massive risk to the environment because they are 100% designed as a one-time-use product. You use them until they either run out of e-liquid or battery power, and then you dispose of them. As a result, we’ve seen a huge increase in the popularity of disposable vaporizers, particularly among teenagers, which is fueling the increase in sales.

Vaping VS. Smoking: Which is Less harmful to the Environment?

In this section, we’re going to look at the impact tobacco products have on the environment, the impact e-cigarettes have on the environment, and how much damage both cause.

How Tobacco Products Damage the Environment

Approximately 4.5 trillion cigarette butts make their way into landfill, the environment, and the ocean every day worldwide. They are easily one of the most abundant forms of plastic pollution worldwide.

Cigarette butts, or filters, are a man-made plastic, and when they end up in landfill or the ocean, they can up to ten years to break down. As they break down, cigarette butts release harmful chemicals and ultimately end up turning into microplastic pollution, which poses a huge threat to the environment, human health, and wildlife for decades.

Tobacco use in the United States of America is still so prevalent that it remains as the country’s biggest cause of preventable death. Americans are responsible for smoking almost 267 billion cigarettes every year. When you combine this with the common habit of throwing cigarette butts on the ground, that’s a lot of cigarette butts ending up littering the environment.

How E-cigarettes Damage the Environment

E-cigarettes are commonly marketed as a ‘safer alternative’ than traditional tobacco cigarettes. However, there is limited data to back up these claims, and we won’t know about long-term health effects for many years to come.

Disposable vaporizers were one of the first products to enter the vaping market. Cheap cigarillos were and are still available in gas stations and convenience stores. They looked exactly like traditional cigarettes, even down to a glowing red tip! However, within a few years, box mods quickly became more popular among serious vapers.

That’s all changed over the last couple of years, with many vapers making the switch to disposable pod vaporizers because of their price, size, and convenience. However, that has led us to where we are now, with millions of vaporizers being thrown away each year.

When you look at e-cigarrete waste, you need to consider that e-cigarettes are made using more materials than tobacco cigarettes. These include:

1. Plastic Waste– Plastic waste from the plastic components used in the construction of disposable vaporizers, including the case and other components of the e-cigarettes.
2. Electronic Waste– Electronic waste includes circuit boards, screens, and batteries. There may only be a small amount of lithium contained within a disposable e-cigarette, but it’s a precious and rare commodity.
3. Chemical Waste– There are a variety of different chemicals used in the construction of components and e-liquids, all of which remain in the e-cigarette once disposed of.

Many materials mentioned above are 100% recyclable if the devices are taken to the correct recycling facility. However, if they’re thrown into the regular trash, all those valuable materials are entirely wasted.

Despite the fact that they contain lithium, one of the most in-demand metals in the world, millions of vaporizers are still ending up in a landfill. Currently, there is a global demand for lithium, and demand for lithium is expected to rise by five-fold in the next decade. Lithium is a common metal used in batteries.

In the United Kingdom alone, two vaporizers end up in regular landfill every two seconds. Just that amount of lithium alone is enough to make the batteries for over 1,500 electronic cars. Over 168 million of these disposable e-cigarettes are being purchased every year. The vast majority of these products are single-use or disposable. Interestingly, most of these devices contain a battery that’s rechargeable but does not have a charging port.

Pollution from e-cigarettes is mainly preventable if we as vapers take a few seconds out of our day to do the right thing. One way you can help reduce the impact disposable vaporizers have on the environment is by being an eco-friendly vaper.

Be An Eco-friendly Vaper

As an eco-friendly vaper, there are various ways you can help to minimize the environmental risk that disposable e-cigarettes and traditional tobacco products pose, including:

1. Stay away from traditional cigarettes and tobacco products and stick with vaping.
2. Whenever possible, make the switch from disposable vaporizers to rechargeable vaporizers which will cut down on wastage from devices being thrown away.
3. If you do have to dispose of any e-cigarettes, vaporizers, disposable vaporizers, batteries, or accessories, check with your local waste organization to see if they have dedicated battery disposal and battery recycling areas or drop-off points. This means that the e-cigarettes will be disposed of safely, and all materials used in the construction of the e-cigarettes will be recycled correctly.

E-cigarette Waste and the Environment – Conclusion

Now you have a much clearer idea about the risk that disposable vapes pose to the environment and how those risks stack up against traditional tobacco products. As eco-friendly vapers and consumers, we can all do our part to help reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfill because of disposable e-cigarettes and accessories.

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It may not be the foremost argument against smoking, but ask anyone who goes assiduously litter-picking and they’ll tell you that cigarette butts are a blight on the environment almost everywhere. With around 4.5tn cigarette ends casually discarded every year, the National Geographic describes them as “the most littered item on Earth” and a major source of microplastic pollution. Waste and pollution on that scale is a global problem the world is somewhat belatedly waking up to.

So is this, along with the much-debated issue of personal health, another point in favour of vaping? Not according to experts at the recent World Health Organization (WHO) conference, who spoke of “heavy plastic with metal parts, which is difficult to recycle”.

And that’s assuming most users even make any attempt to recycle items that are labelled “disposable” – which are booming in popularity and are also potentially the biggest environmental villains in the e-cigarette catalogue.

Exaggerated scare stories about “exploding” e-cigs may fire the imagination of tabloid news editors but they don’t deliver the real bad news about lithium batteries. That’s much more to do with the waste of an increasingly eagerly sought mineral, and the high social and environmental cost of lithium mining in places such as Chile’s Atacama desert.

One of the major points in favour of lithium batteries is rechargeability – which ought to be a good thing from the green perspective – but that benefit is literally thrown away in the case of disposable e-cigs.

Free, easy and environmentally friendly

Now comes an initiative from a 26-year-old engineer and PhD student who has organised a team of volunteers to set up and maintain recycling bins in the dorms and on the campus where he studies and teaches, specifically to collect disposable e-cigs and retrieve their batteries. These are then not recycled in the sense of being broken down for their components but, better still, converted to make them rechargeable and reused intact.

As Maksym Sheremet told The Independent: “We started collecting e-cigarettes after the price of lithium batteries really rose a month ago. It’s free, easy to repurpose and environmentally friendly.

“It’s very easy to solder this stuff, it is not a difficult job. You cannot put electric cigarettes in the trash because of the lithium battery; it is a serious fire risk and terrible for the environment.”

The twist in this initially heartwarming tale is the purpose Sheremet is putting his reclaimed batteries to. It’s a purpose you might well applaud – depending which side of a major conflict you stand on – but it’s a strange one to be making health or environment claims for. War is never notably beneficial to either.

After being collected from students in Kyiv, those former e-cig batteries are now powering drones delivering weaponry, bombs and ammunition (and medical supplies) to the soldiers on Ukraine’s front line in the fight against Russia.

– Aidan Semmens ECigIntelligence staff

Photo: Marco Verch

If you’ve been vaping for a while, you’ve likely tried just about every e-liquid flavour that is available on the vape market. So where do you go from here?

DIY vape juice is the natural next step for dozens of vapers. With flavour concentrates, vapers can concoct their own DIY e-liquid flavours with their preferred balance of propylene glycol (PG) and vegetable glycerin (VG).

1. Experience great flavours

Flavour concentrates consist of food-grade flavourings and PG to make the very best e-liquids. Concentrates can also be mixed to create unique flavours that are not available on the vape market.

2. Control the vapour

PG is a great flavour carrier that can be mixed with both nicotine and VG to create your ideal vape. Experienced cloud chasers love to mix their concentrates with high volumes of VG for plenty of flavour and vapour.

3. Control the nicotine

Concentrates can be mixed with nicotine or CBD Boost shots to create your preferred vape. This is a great option for those finding themselves in the position to no longer depend on the nicotine fix to keep you going.

4. Save money

Consisting entirely of PG and food-grade flavourings, flavour concentrates are available in large, 30ml bottles to mix with VG or nicotine. This means that you get much more product for your money and the e-liquids last much longer than TPD-compliant 10ml bottles.

5. Avoid vaper’s tongue

If you’ve been vaping for a long time, you may have experienced vaper’s tongue. An unpleasant situation where e-liquid juice desensitises the tongue to flavours, vaper’s tongue spoils the experience of vaping great flavours.

Flavour concentrates allow you to mix flavourings to create brand new flavours, thus avoiding a disappointing case of vaper’s tongue that ruins your favourite e-liquid as well as other foods and drinks.

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For more DIY e liquid tips and tricks, check out Dinner Lady’s guide to finding the all-important ingredients for all you need to get started with making your own vape juice at home.

by Alan Johnson

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Nov 15, 2022

People consider vaping an effective way to quit smoking, but it can be quite a challenge to find the right device, especially if you’re a new vaper.

There are so many different types of devices on the market, and it can be hard to know which one is right for you. Vaping devices come in all shapes and sizes and they are all different when it comes to how they work. There are some that work in different voltage, concentration of E-liquid, coil resistance, etc.

In this blog post, we’re going to take a look at the different types of vape devices so that you can find the perfect one for your needs.

Evolution of Vaping

Vaping devices have come a long way since they were first introduced. The first generation of vaping devices looked identical to cigarettes. Then the cap pens came out, which were designed to look like pens. The next generation of vaping devices was the box mod, which resembled a box. Mods were introduced in the early 2010s. The pod mods date back to the mid-2010s.

Disposable Vape

What is a Disposable Vape? 

Disposable vapes are the simplest type of vaping device that have been popular since 2020. They’re small, lightweight, and easy to use. Disposable vapes come pre-filled with e-liquid, so all you have to do is open the package and start puffing. Most disposable vapes contain nicotine, but there are also some that don’t contain nicotine. Disposable vapes are designed to be used once and then thrown away.

What are the benefits of disposable vapes? 

The benefits of disposable vapes are that they’re easy to use and they’re very affordable. Disposable vapes are a great way to try out vaping without having to invest in a more expensive device.

Additionally, disposable vapes are very discreet. They can be easily concealed in your hand or pocket, and they don’t produce a lot of vapor.

What are the drawbacks of disposable vapes?

The main drawback of disposable vapes is that they don’t last very long. Most disposable vapes only contain enough e-liquid for 200-400 puffs. Once the e-liquid is gone, you have to throw away the device.

Another drawback of disposable vapes is that they’re not very customizable. You can’t change the flavor or nicotine strength of the e-liquid.

All in all, disposable vapes are a great way to try out vaping. They’re also a good choice for people who are looking for a discreet, easy-to-use device.