Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by excalibur 2425 days ago
Yes, the amount of nicotine in Juul pods is absurdly high, and has little variability. Somehow they became the market leader, and a lot of people assume their products to be representative of the industry as a whole. They aren't.

If you want something harmful to ban, why don't you start with products with a nicotine level above 24 mg/ml. Better yet, why don't you REQUIRE them to be made available in a variety of lower nicotine concentrations, including nicotine-free. Giving the user control over the nicotine content is the primary value of vaping for smoking cessation. There is a legitimate public health interest in requiring products to be useful for this purpose.