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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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[–] catty@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Do these threats exist in the exhaled smoke? It seems like people around me don't GAF about the exhaust from vapes.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 points 2 days ago (7 children)

You can smell the fucking cotton candy if a guy in a car vapes in front of you.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The article clearly states that some of the toxics were in the e-liquid.

[–] tang999@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

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