Without an e-liquid, there is no vapour. Whilst the secrets to the flavours captured inside this viscous and sometimes amber-coloured solution may be kept under wraps, its key ingredients are easily accessible. Our guide to how e-cigarettes work gives you an overview of e-liquids with a closer look at what they are made of. Relatively simple ingredients […]
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Nicotine is an organic compound naturally present in tobacco leaves. It is the primary psychoactive substance in tobacco. Tobacco can be smoked, chewed or snuffed to consume the nicotine that it contains. Native Americans had already been smoking tobacco plants for thousands of years when Christopher Columbus and his troops discovered America. Nicotine owes its […]
Released with the very first e-cigarette models, the cigalike, or mini e-cigarette, saw strong growth between 2003 and 2009. Smokers often find how it works and its shape appealing, but, in terms of performances, it lags behind eGo models and other later generation vaporisers. Presentation of the Cigalike, a forerunner of vaping which is still in some use. An e-cigarette […]
How does an electronic cigarette work? That’s a question that lots of people don’t seem to have a good answer to – and many of them, including scientists and journalists, really should know better. Luckily it’s not all that difficult to explain. Electronic cigarettes are also called vapes, and that gives a big clue to […]
The topic of nicotine salts is paradoxically both a minor and a major one, given that it is on many people’s lips, even though they might not be affected. In this section, we will try to summarise the topic, its effects and its potential risks. Full review of the current knowledge on “salted nicotine”. There’s […]
December 8, the 2021 IECIE show was successfully closed. A BIG thank you to all of you who were involved. It was also the last day of the exhibition, but all visitors, together with IPURE still maintained a surge of enthusiasm. The exhibition was at the very point where a sort of regulations are about […]
So how do you smoke a vape? That’s an interesting question, and one that a lot of people are asking these days. A few years ago “vapes” – personal vaporisers, or more commonly, electronic cigarettes – were rare, and most people had never heard of them. Now “vape” is in the Oxford English Dictionary and it’s […]
That’s a question that many people seem to be confused about. From well-meaning vapers who say “It’s just water vapour” (it isn’t) to tobacco control fanatics yelling, “We don’t know what’s in it” (we do), misinformation and weird beliefs about e-liquid are all over the place. Luckily, there’s no real mystery about how e-juice is […]
Electronic cigarettes have been around for years now, but a lot of people still don’t seem very sure of exactly what is in a vape. Is there tobacco in there? Lots of people – especially US lawmakers – seem to think so. What about cancer-causing chemicals and toxic heavy metals? The media are always claiming […]
What exactly is a vape pod? Vape pods are very easy-to-use e-cigarettes, and they all use disposable tanks. With clearomizers, you only change the resistance coil when it’s worn out. With vape pods, the coil is built into the tank, so you change everything at the same time. This is more practical and cleaner, but there are also […]