Electronic Cigarettes: New Route to Smoking Addiction for Adolescents

[brett_jv]

83. I've read an article that strongly suggests (i.e. unequivocally) that such suppliers ... are lying.

It argued that the agricultural value of tomatoes and eggplants vs. their nicotine concentration is far too high for anyone producing these crops to decide to use them as a source for nicotine rather than selling them as tomatoes and eggplants.

The math I saw in the article worked out where it'd be something like 20x more expensive to produce nicotine via tomatoes vs. tobacco (given that tomatoes are easily alternatively sold as foodstuffs), and that thus, there's 0% chance said product could 'compete' with nicotine derived from tobacco in the marketplace.

And hence, that the probability that such a claim about the nicotine source (in the e-juice you're buying) is actually true ... is next to nil.

Conveniently for the 'industry', however, the fact that nicotine can be derived from plants that are NOT tobacco ... lends credence to the concept that e-juice should not be regulated as a 'tobacco product', since tobacco is not technically 'required' to produce any component of the product.

FWIW, that's what I read.