If You Smoke Electronic Cigarettes ....

[naomi24]

... are you a smoker or a non-smoker? Just wondering how that is viewed by the medical profession.

[DrFilth]

sorry forget that last post i have only just got back on after taking the photo

[pixie373]

Thanks, though:-)

[divegirl]

Off topic again...
But...

I buy my juice in 20ml bottles and the strength is 24mg of nicotine ... that one bottle can last me a week or so and cost £6.99.

The reason for most of the furore over this stuff is the amount of tax the government is losing, so they try to make it look bad.

Just saying :0)

Lisa x

[DrFilth]

divegirl that is the high strength ?

[divegirl]

Yes DrFilth, that is the highest one you can buy [to my knowledge] unless you mix your own juices. On most [e-cig] forums there are a fair few people who buy their own nicotine and mix it to the desired strength.

Lisa x

[jomifl]

LG, from Wiki,
The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 0.5-1.0 mg/kg can be a lethal dosage for adult humans, and 0.1 mg/kg for children.[

[LazyGun]

@Jom.

From the same source, one paragraph on
"However the widely used human LD50 estimate of 0.5–1.0 mg/kg was questioned in a 2013 review, in light of several documented cases of humans surviving much higher doses; the 2013 review suggests that the lower limit causing fatal out-comes is 500–1000 mg of ingested nicotine, corresponding to an oral lD50 of 6.5–13 mg/kg"

The original LD50 is outdated, as later studies have shown.

[jomifl]

Ta LG, of course nobody has done an LD50 on humans so there is a little uncertainty :o)

[LazyGun]

@Jom True ;)

There has been quite a lot of work on tracing the amount of nicotine that gets into the bloodstream from a single cigarette though, and studies of various cases on non-fatal ingestion of nicotine suggest that the LD50 was very underestimated previously.

[LorenRamp09]

I was once a hardcore smoker. Now I'm a hardcore vaper :D .. I turned because of health issues. But still I can't cut myself from smoking. That's when I tried e cigs. Pretty good I must say. Actually referred to me by my friend. Said that I should get my starter kit here: http://www.bandmonline.co.uk/electronic-cigarette.html .. You know, e cigs does really help to quitting smoking.