• sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
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      21 days ago

      There’s a difference between a vape and the type of contraption they’re talking about. The ones where you stick a cigarette in the end and suck it and it doesn’t burn, but rather just heats the tobacco.

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          20 days ago

          But you’re right, as aliens often are. These things are like dry herb vapes, that people use for vaping herbs, like parsley, sage, rosemary and cannabis. The idea of these things is to vapourise the chemicals in the dry plant matter, rather than burn it.

          They presumably don’t contain the carbon monoxide you get from burning tobacco, and the amount of tar could be lower.

          They are certainly worse than ecigarette vapes, which heat a PG/VG ejuice that has had nicotine added in trace amounts, as this ejuice does not contain anything like the amount of shite found in tobacco (formaldehyde and all that crap).

          I don’t see the point in having these. If people need a good substitute to replace cigarettes, they should use ecigs. Not these half-way-house things which still expose them to lots of the same dangerous chemicals. But I guess this heated tobacco helps keep the tobacco producers in the market?

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        21 days ago

        It reads like someone who is trying to be clear. Maybe you can say overly so and accuse them of padding words, but it doesn’t read like an AI article.