From: Global News
By Leslie Young
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So people who are hooked on nicotine might look elsewhere for the drug. “If for example there are people who want nicotine in high doses, they may be more amenable to getting it in a cleaner format rather than a combustible cigarette. They may decide to vape or they get medical nicotine through the patches or gums or sprays.”
But he cautions that there may be unintended consequences as people hooked on nicotine compensate for the deficit through other behaviours, like smoking more cigarettes or smoking them faster, adding nicotine to the cigarette, buying high-nicotine cigarettes on the black market, or if they aren’t similarly regulated, buying cigars instead.
