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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What I don't understand is how these e cigarettes are accessible to youngsters compared to disallowing cigarettes.

I live in the UK, and I see young teens and people my age in 20s smoking these metal pipe cigarettes, isn't it just tobacco in liquid form? Shouldn't this be tightly controlled like regular cigarettes?

How the hell is this drug popular and marketable??

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It is controlled, in most places it's restricted for people under 18 or 21 depending. It isn't just liquid tobacco, it's the nicotine extracted from tobacco (or sweet potatoes) suspended in a solution with food grade vegetable glycerine or food grade propylene glycol. Tobacco has tar and is worse.

Some of it isn't even that either, some of it is weed (that idk how they process).

Sometimes people can get things illegally. I enjoy weed which is illegal in my state and drank alcohol before I was 21. Other friends I know have done heroin in the past which is certainly illegal.

It's popular for the same reason other drugs are, people like drugs.