2 Jul 2022 5:19 am
The car we're renting here in Japan has a big sticker on the dashboard, warning that smoking is stricktly prohibited.Neo » 23 Jun 2022, 2:39 pm » wrote: ↑ I had a fairly successful ecig business but saw this writing on the wall so I exited. I smoked a pack a day for 25 years. Father died of smoking related cancer and I was unable to keep a death bed promise I made to him, I couldn't quit smoking. Ecigs hit the scene a year after his passing and I used them to finally quit my addiction. This was years before vape shops and easy access at gas stations. Spent $5000 ordering a custom bulk supply of the devices from China and learned how to mix ejuice. Ended up selling a few thousand kits at near cost to kick start adoption and save the lives of hopelessly addicted smokers I saw lives saved, I saw hope restored. I saw big tobacco fight like hell to demonize the product as it was costing them souls.
This move isn't surprising. Kids will simply start smoking instead of vaping. Lives will be lost following our loss of freedom. Free to kill yourself if big tobacco makes a profit, not free to use a less harmful alternative.
Underneat it, with even bolder letters it says : INCLUDING E-CIGARETTES !
How would they be ENFORCING this rule ?
And, honestly, I could never understand why someone would smoke those chemicals !
I believe they're even more hazardous than normal cigarettes.
That is my conviction, anyway.
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By the way . . . think about how much paper someone smokes in one year, by a pack a day ! ! !
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Anatomy of a Cigarette
Conventional Cigarette
Note: This virtual cigarette does not represent a particular brand but describes the structure of many of the most popular brands of cigarettes on the market.
Tobacco
Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called "reconstituted tobacco" or "homogenized sheet tobacco," which is made from a pulp of mashed tobacco stems and other parts of the tobacco leaf that would otherwise go to waste. Manufacturers spray and impregnate reconstituted tobacco paper with nicotine and other substances lost during the process, along with as many as 600 chemical additives. These include several that may come as a surprise, such as ammonia, which aids in the delivery of nicotine, and chocolate, which masks the bitter taste of tobacco. Finally, the 'recon' is sliced to resemble shredded leaf tobacco.
In addition to reconstituted tobacco, cigarette companies pack cigarettes with so-called puffed tobacco (also called "expanded tobacco"), which allows them to produce more cigarettes per pound of tobacco grown with lower levels of tar particles in the smoke. Manufacturers saturate this tobacco, which they make from the leaf of the plant, with freon and ammonia gases and then freeze-dry it. This process expands the tobacco, increasing its volume to at least double its natural state.