They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.

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    1 day ago

    But omg didn’t he look oh so cool blowing out that massive puff of white toxins from his mouth and nose?

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      If you’re blowing clouds like that you’re not using the disposable vapes the article talks about. You’re using sub-ohm coils and a larger rig capable of heating coils designed for the task of making big clouds. You’re also using a liquid with a relatively low concentration of freebase nicotine.

      Disposables vapes use higher concentrations of nicotine in a salt form rather than freebase, and much smaller quantities of liquid per puff, to deliver a hit that feels more like a cigarette.

      Back when I vaped I made my own coils, though eventually I moved on to temperature-controlled ones, which require a purity of metal not found in the cheap-ass nic-salt disposables.

      The toxicity is from the coils in the disposables, not from the eliquid and not from rigs.

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          Not positive, but I think it was stated or implied that the toxins were in the liquid because they were leeched from the coil.

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          19 hours ago

          Okay, well, again, don’t use disposables. Get your eliquid from a reputable shop. Or mix your own. I did, it’s not hard.

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        The toxicity is from the coils in the disposables, not from the eliquid and not from rigs.

        Lemmy, where the real knowledge they don’t want you know know is, not facebook/conspiracy anymore, but this shit right here.

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      The cool factor isn’t even there for me. These clowns look like they’re smoking an iPod.