Anti-vaping ads are valid.
Young people should not vape. The products that appeal to them are easy to hide (think Pods) and the flavors are in fact dangerous.
Complicated mixtures that taste like bakery or dairy products or cotton candy or popcorn have multiple chemicals to create those tastes.
The most popular Pods are designed for quick infrequent stealth hits that produce a big 'Hit' quick.
The Nicotine level is around 5%, or
50mg/ml. To produce impressive clouds power levels can be as high as
200 watts. Think of your car headlights highbeams and tail lights on kind of power. Vaping oil based products require a lot of power.
IF there is a somewhat safe mixture, strength, and power level, a young person would not be influenced by sensible vaping over crazy vaping.
I'm 72 years old (with no breathing issues) and I doubt vaping will be a gateway drug for me,
The wife and I both vape. Since 2009. We have cut the Nic level back to
5mg/ml for her and
10mg/ml for me.
I mix up a liter for each of us. We don't buy premixed products from small vape shops.
The ingredients are USP purities:
400ml of Propylene Glycol (40% of total volume),
400ml of Vegetable Glycerin (40% of total),
100ml of food grade flavor (we use black Cherry) 10% of total,
100ml of 10% Nicotine (50ml for the wife).
1% of final volume is Nicotine (0.5% for the wife's mixture).
The liter lasts 6 to 8 months and is kept refrigerated (bulk Nicotine is kept in the freezer) except for small carry use glass dropper bottles.
We vape at low power,
7 to 10 watts.
We do use those DANGEROUS Lithium batteries though.
We don't vape around other people, mostly because we don't really like other people
Call us names if you want but vaping low levels of Nicotine (without the burning of plants and paper) might actually be beneficial for older people.
(would not be politically correct to claim that)
I see vaping as similar to reloading ammo. There are safe ways to go about this and then there is speed.