Senate Bill 379, one of three bills under Texas Make America Healthy Again initiative that Gov
High Excise Taxes: State-level taxes make the retail price of imported luxury tobacco significantly higher than in domestic markets
Specifically, for each brands website, we coded whether there was information on nicotine concentration (recorded if a numerical value was provided such as 5% nicotine), nicotine form (free-base, nicotine salts, or not stated), and nicotine type (tobacco-derived, synthetically derived, or not stated)
Through a study led by the Harvard School of Public Health, the professor showed that 76% of 51 e-liquids tested contain traces of diacetyl or its derivative
Secondly, the ingredient propylene glycol in vaping e-liquids enables far more efficient transfer of nicotine across membranes than combustible tobacco