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A similar story occurred with e-cigarettes, when Eissenberg and colleagues found that little nicotine is absorbed by vapers. Except that they didn't use vapers in the study, they used smokers, and they did a puff-for-puff comparison with cigarettes. As any vaper worth his or her salt knows, you don't vape like you smoke - so the study came back with results that are irrelevant to real-world use (although that doesn't mean it wasn't worth doing).

Now, however, we are a step closer to knowing exactly how much nicotine we do get from e-cigarettes. Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos and colleagues have just published their in-depth study(full text) which analysed 45 experienced e-cigarette users and 35 smoking controls. They looked at several measures, including the puff duration and number of puffs taken over a given time-frame from users puffing on a eg0/tank setup. They found that, using the 9mg/ml liquid provided in the test, vapers were consuming around .5mg of nicotine in 5 minutes, and 1.6mg over 20 minutes.

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Nicotine is one of the major concerns when it comes to using electronic cigarettes. Nicotine is a highly addictive substance. Nicotine is linked with the feeling good. For some smokers, the dose of nicotine they receive from cigarettes help them overcome stress. With the good feeling that nicotine delivers, they become addictive to the positive effects this alkaloid can bring.

When using e-cigarettes, or similar products with nicotine e-liquid, intake per puff and absorption of it is very different from regular cigarettes. Lets say you are getting a 10 ml bottle of 12 mg strength e-liquid. The 12 mg strength tells us that there is 12 mg of nicotine in each milliliter as mentioned above. Therefore, in a 10 ml e-juice bottle, there will be 10 x 12 mg nicotine= 120 mg nicotine. Given that each 10 ml bottle is equal to roughly 9 packs of cigarettes, and each pack has 20 cigarettes, and each cigarette has roughly 20 puffs, there are roughly 3600 puffs (2-3 seconds each) in a 10 ml bottle of e-juice. Dividing 120 mg by 3600, and assuming each puff is 2-3 second long, you are inducing about 0.03 nicotine in our body, which is roughly same as regular medium cigarette.

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20. For a while, Marlboro offered packs of 25, but the additional cost was overpricing them, and consumers caught on.

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1 mg of nicotine engrossed with each cigarette and mostly it depends on the cigarettes that you have smoked.

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There is no nicotine in tea. There is a small amount of caffeine (like in coffee), but nicotine is only found in tobacco products.

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20 cigarettes.

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