Monday, October 28, 2019

Nicotine Vape Juice and the environment?

Why do people use nicotine vape juice?

The primary reason for people to use nicotine vape juice is to quit smoking cigarettes.  people can choose to have their vape juice nicotine free or contain nicotine in a variety of levels ranging from 3 mg to 24 mg.  nicotine salts can also be included and these allow for a far higher level of nicotine to be vaped. Juul Laboratories include nicotine levels up to 52 mg.  They have they have been lately by the FDA for including high levels of nicotine and the CEO has since resigned. the new CEO previously worked for Altria, which is a company associated with big tobacco. 

Where can you buy nicotine vape juice

 depending on which country you are living in you can either buy nicotine vape juice in your local vape shop our online through many different stores.  In Australia it is illegal to buy or sell nicotine locally and therefore it is necessary to import nicotine vape juice from overseas. how many people in Australia will purchase nicotine vape juice from New Zealand where it is legal to buy and sell nicotine vape juice.  purchasing online can allow for much greater selection.  

Cigarettes or vape juice….Which should i choose?

 although this question has resulted in much debate over the past decade the verdict has well and truly been established by the majority of reputable institutions.  public Health England as well as Cancer Council UK have noted that vaping is 95% safer than smoking cigarettes. 

 cigarettes are known to cause cancer and cigarette smoking remains the greatest source of preventable death worldwide and over 7 million people will die in the US this year alone as a direct result of cigarette smoking.  although there has been much in the news lately about vaping nicotine juice call Deaths have been directly related to this practice. 

Vape juice and palm oil

Everyone should be aware by now of the plastic problem in our ecosystem.  over 45 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced in the US each year while around 20 million times a produced in Australia each year.  hundreds of millions of cigarettes are smoked around the world every day and each cigarette possesses a plastic filter which must be discarded.  Many of these cigarette butts end up in the trash are sometimes on the street. this results in a significant contribution to the world's plastic problem.  Vaping nicotine juice helps to alleviate this by eliminating the need for a plastic filter. 

Some people have highlighted that the vegetable glycerine contained in nicotine vape juice is made using palm oil.  palm oil farming has been associated with the destruction of natural habitats and the loss of natural ecosystems for Animals such as the orangutan.  although this is true when palm oil is farmed on sustainably the WWF has also noted that palm oil is a very productive crop and when farmed sustainably can be very useful. It is very important to make sure to purchase your vape juice from a company that is using sustainably sourced palm oil in this way you can minimise your carbon footprint and reduce your impact to the world's plastic problem.