[fredgrott]

Vaping is wrong for a very different reason, i.e. because the amount and quality of nicotine is unregulated which means the standard vape has an overdose of nicotine which can result in death in a single vape. 6 deaths by vaping in my state of Indiana alone last year, and all of them teenagers.

[flaviut]

That's not vaping nicotine.

These kids are vaping THC adulterated with vitamin E[1]. Vitamin E is added because it makes a cut product thicker, and thickness is thought of as an indicator of quality. My guess here is that marijuana still has a stigma/is illegal, so these kids are finding it easier to just blame nicotine vapes to try and get themselves out of trouble.

There's no reason to cut nicotine vape liquid since the base ingredients (vegetable glycerin + propylene glycol) are absurdly cheap.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...

[Veen]

I find that very hard to believe unless these people are making their own vape juice with hundreds of times the recommended amount of pure nicotine. For example, a standard Juul pod contains about 40 mg of nicotine, each puff gives you a max of 160 µg, which is significantly less than a 2000th of the commonly believed lethal dose (500 mg orally for a 80KG person).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33762429/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning

Btw, there's in interesting story attached to mistaken view about what constitutes a lethal dose of nicotine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880486/

[Semaphor]

That’s not a general vaping thing, that’s about certain nicotine containing liquids or pods or whatever kids use these days. There are people like me who have zero nicotine in their vapes.