To add on to what he said, also be wary of nicotine in anything but 100% PG, as VG greatly increases the rate of oxidation, since VG itself draws water from the atmosphere. So if your nicotine isn't just-removed-the-seal new, it is going to taste worse than PG nicotine. At 3 mg, it only decreases the VG ratio by 3%.

A further note, sugars/sweeteners can catalyze the oxidation of nicotine, resulting in faster color change. Just something to keep in mind :)

I wouldn't say it's terribly common, but it is very present and obvious when it is.

If you're ever curious why a "6mg" is just so darn smooth, grab a nicotine test kit from wizard labs and find out for yourself exactly what nicotine level it is.

No matter what nicotine I use in my e-Juice, be it NudeNicotine, VapersTek, ECX, etc. a 6mg has a throat hit. When I try a juice that is advertised as 6mg and has no throat hit, I am immediately suspecting false advertising.

It's an odd phenomenon I've noticed as a manager in a cigar shop and an employee in a vape shop. People equate the weirdest things with quality.

In cigars, there is flavor and there is body. Body is nicotine content. A full bodied cigar is higher in nicotine than a milder bodied cigar.

For some reason, for a long time now, people have correlated darker cigars (those with maduro or oscuro wrappers) with fuller body. Much like roasting coffee, tobacco actually LOSES nicotine when darkened by fermentation or heating. There is a trend in the cigar industry that darker wrappers are generally placed around fuller bodied fillers and binders, but that's all it is. There is no rule that says every dark cigar is strong - yet people vehemently believe this as fact.

For six years, I explained this to people and was met with resistance damn near constantly. I heard:

"You're wrong." "Well every dark cigar I've smoked has been strong." "My cousin/brother/father/grandfather/dog/pet caterpillar rolls cigars and they said dark cigars are stronger."

The point I'm trying to make is that even if /u/shrine399 did tell people "Hey, listen, the reason you like that juice so much is because we tested it out at 2mg/mL nicotine instead of the advertised 6mg/mL. This is why it's so 'smooth' as you pointed out," they would probably just tell him "No, you're wrong. I need 6mg/mL, and this works for me. Clearly you must be wrong."

Sadly it happens more often than you'd think, and eventually, we just stop trying to correct people's deep seeded opinions. Within 15 seconds of conversation a decent retail employee can determine whether someone just wants what they want or whether they want to be a more informed consumer who makes more educated buying decisions.

I definitely didn't mean to come off as a dick. This was simply my two cents and a little explanation.

Edit: As a more relevant explanation, some guy recently came in with a bottle of 99%+ VG liquid. The nicotine was 12mg/mL.

Now, right away, why this juice even exists is beyond me, but I tried to explain to him how they were lying about what was in the bottle. 12mg/mL means that 1.2% of that bottle is nicotine, pure nicotine, not nicotine in a suspension of VG/PG... literally 1.2% of that bottle's contents were nicotine molecules. 100-1.2=98.8, so even before we talk about adding flavors, that 99% is already incorrect.

This is going to turn into an argument for regulation, so I'll just leave off by saying consume these products however you want to consume them, but it's safer to treat a disagreement as just that. I tried to tell a guy last night that cheap chargers can cause a house fire. Failure to terminate charging correctly could lead to overcharging and venting the battery. I had before tested one of this guy's batteries out on a DMM at 4.24V, so I know that charger wasn't terminating correctly. We argued. He accused me of "Trying to sell [him] overpriced shit." and told me to "Fuck off, Captain Crunch!" and left. It was odd.

People get violent about battery chargers for some reason. :/

It's not my responsibility to advertise, in any way shape or form, the nicotine content or quality contained in a "premium" juice line I carry in my shop. If the company decides they want to take advantage of the non-regulated market that is the vaping industry, then so be it. The label says 6mg, so it is sold as 6mg juice. The same as any other juice that I carry in any other mg level. When someone asks for a 3mg, I tell them the 6mg feels more like a 3mg which they usually agree with and end up purchasing it.

I never once told someone, in opposite, that it's 100% guaranteed to be 6mg juice, even though it feels closer to a 3mg.

Where in this does he say he doesn't label his nicotine content?

I am sorry that you have been so mistakenly informed.

It feels too labored to formulate a response to such an obvious attack (unjustly and obviously misunderstood) on my comment. You obviously failed to either fully read or fully comprehend what I've written. That's..just...bad...on....you.

Simple fruit mixes are about all that's shake and vape capable, even some of them need a day or 2 to settle and mellow. Creams, custards, and bakery types need at least a week if not 2. Tobaccos about the same from what I understand...not my cup of tea so I don't know from experience. I have the mrs hide my creations so that I can't cheat and try them early :/

Interesting. Wonder what's going on over there. How's the vaperstek nic? I tried to pick some up from BC today and they didn't have any 100mg.

Do you have any way to test the strength of the nic?

> Is it too late to do that?

Not at all. It won't make the nic better but it will stop any further damage, so at least it won't get any worse ;)