

And yet truly delicious.Īnyway, unlike cigarettes, vapes are less likely to be stigmatized by especially younger people, which is problematic, given the whole “you can’t sell cigarettes to kids” mandate. They feature not only the nicotine high, but also that sweet, sweet, artificial taste in any of dozens of flavors.

They are all the rage, whether you’re a trendy twenty-something white girl who works in marketing, a middle-aged blue-collar Black man, or, really, anyone in between. And they are, for the most part, less harmful (with a lil asterisk– more below). Unlike cigarettes, nicotine vapes don’t leave your clothes reeking. In terms of ergonomics and health effects, nicotine vapes are unequivocally superior to cigarettes.

Suffice it to say that THC and nicotine work a little bit differently in vape design (we will return to this point later). First, What’s A Vape? I’m Not Up With The Lingo.ĭisposable vape pens are, on average, pen-sized devices that feature a battery, some kind of control feature or automatic airflow sensor, and a vessel holding some sort of liquid, whether THC or nicotine. Disposable vape pens are the next e-Waste nightmare owing to the fact that no one is recycling the batteries. Right: the nicotine tank (top) and heating element, the wires connecting the heating element and tank to the lithium-ion battery, and, bottom, I’d wager, the airflow sensor that activates the heat when you start to suck in air through the mouthpiece. Second from right: The hollow, rigid, plastic casing of the vape pen. Second from left: A sponge sort of thing that absorbs the delicious, but foul solution contained within the tank (far right). The innerds of a Breeze vape pen, laboriously disassembled.
