The Cigarette Reinvented
How Do We Measure Nicotine Addiction?
In this course we have compared cigarettes to e-cigarettes since they contain and produce, from heating, a lot of the same harmful chemicals.
A lot of the research on nicotine addiction has been gathered from studying cigarettes. It’s important to know how many cigarettes worth of nicotine are in these cartridges/pods because this shows how addictive these products really are.
E-cigarette companies have studied cigarettes to master nicotine delivery and addict their customers. As a result, they have made it easier for a young person to breathe in more nicotine without the scratchy throat feeling. Remember they can do this because the nicotine in these products are all salt-based and not freebase.
Watch this short video to learn how many cigarettes worth of nicotine are in some of these pods.
That’s A Lot of Nicotine
This information is only going to stick with you if you test your knowledge. The exercise below wants you to recreate the “Cigs in a Pod” slide from the video above. Feel free to rewatch any part of the video to help you complete the exercise below.
Hint: pay attention to the order of everything, it’s not quite the same as the video!
Reference(s):
- Abuse, National Institute on Drug. “How Does Tobacco Deliver Its Effects?” National Institute on Drug Abuse, –. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-nicotine-e-cigarettes/how-does-tobacco-deliver-its-effects.
- Benowitz, N. L., & Jacob, P., 3rd (1984). Daily intake of nicotine during cigarette smoking. Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 35(4), 499–504. https://doi.org/10.1038/clpt.1984.67
- Jarvis, M. J., Boreham, R., Primatesta, P., Feyerabend, C., & Bryant, A. (2001). Nicotine yield from machine-smoked cigarettes and nicotine intakes in smokers: evidence from a representative population survey. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 93(2), 134–138.