• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    IQOS is not a vape it’s a “heat not burn” product. Completely different category of product and very much not only nicotine when it comes to neurologically active substances, but the whole cigarette spectrum of stuff.

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        1 year ago

        Quoth their own site:

        Our heated tobacco devices are electronic devices that heat real tobacco.

        Sometimes these are also called “e-cigarettes”. But they’re definitely not vapes, which are devices which vaporise a mixture of (generally speaking) propylene glycol, glycerine, water, nicotine, and aroma, no plant matter, no tobacco, involved. You can even get nicotine that’s not derived from tobacco if you care (IIRC they use tomatoes but any nightshade has nicotine, you only need to extract and refine it).

        Truly, I cannot fathom the mind of someone who sticks a literal stick of literal tobacco held together by paper, just like a cigarette, into their device and thinks that that’s the same as squirting liquid into a tank.