Jessica Wynn

Well, that's where nicotine salts come in.

The company Juul, I think most people are familiar with, they pioneered using nicotine salts instead of free base nicotine.

Yeah, they're scary names.

Freebase nicotine is a natural form of nicotine that's extracted from tobacco leaves, providing really high nicotine levels.

And then salt nicotine is the synthetic form of nicotine created by

Combining that freebase nicotine with benzoic acid or lactic acid, this lowers the pH level, which makes it less harsh to inhale at higher concentrations.

So you cough less, which means a faster, smoother hit to the brain.

Yeah, basically.

A single Juul pod is about 200 puffs of a cigarette, which is like a pack of cigarettes.

Right.

And that's why addiction happens so quickly.

So some kids report feeling hooked after just a few hours of trying it.

Oh, my God.

And most adults who vape don't even quit smoking.

They just do both.

Oh, that can't be good.

No, no, it's called dual use.

And you see smokers who vape at work or indoors where cigarettes aren't allowed then smoke a cigarette as soon as they're somewhere they can.

And the supposed benefit of harm reduction just gets canceled out, you know, if there was any in the first place.

It seems like people don't think of vape clouds as secondhand smoke.