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Re:Tobacco companies forced to reduce nicotine in cigarettes... by bmau5 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:46PM (#31748212)
Have these same regulations been applied to vaporizers? Anecdotally it seems these have taken over the majority of nicotine consumption in the US (along with Zyn pouches).
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Re:Tobacco companies forced to reduce nicotine in cigarettes... by WalterGR on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:04PM (#31748319)
> Anecdotally it seems these have taken over the majority of nicotine consumption in the US

Cigarettes have not. The drop in cigarette-smoking rate been basically linear.

Through 2018: https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...

Through 2020: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adul...

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Re:Tobacco companies forced to reduce nicotine in cigarettes... by brutusborn on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @02:43AM (#31749851)
They don't exist yet so they can't have been applied to vaporizers.
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