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[Crossbow]

We (the forum moderation team) find ourselves with a bit of a problem. Much as we dislike bans, rules and other such tedious nuisance, there has recently been a rather alarming insanely dangerous development in the ecig world. A company (with a past history of legally and morally questionable products) has started selling 98% pure nicotine, in bottles up to 200ml. Now I know in the past that we've pointed out the illegality of buying high strength solutions (under the Poisons Act a maximum of 7.5% solution is permitted), but this goes far beyond that.

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The mean lethal dose has been estimated to be 30 to 60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) (Gosselin, 1988)

A single ml of 98% nicotine has 980mg of nicotine, making it many times a lethal dose, even by skin absorption, so potentially a few drops on the skin could be fatal. It may even be possible to OD by inhalation of the fumes from an open bottle. The website doesn't even give any significant warning about how dangerous this stuff is, nor how to handle it safely. Clearly, this is not something that anyone should have in their home (I'm a chemistry graduate, with a good idea of how to handle this safely, and it still scares the shit out of me, I'd feel safer with bottles of arsenic) as dangerous amounts may easily be transferred by contact, such as the outside of the pipette used to transfer it.

If ever there was a vaping product that was likely to result in accidental deaths, this is it, in fact given the toxicity of pure nicotine, it almost guarantees it. None of us have any desire to assist someone buying a product that is this dangerous.

We therefore feel that this company should not in anyway be promoted, supported or even given PR by mention. It's name and URL are now automatically filtered to remove them from posts. Any that are missed will be tidied up by hand. If other retailers come to our attention with similar products, the same policy will be applied.



Do not buy pure nicotine, and do not link to places where it is sold.

Discussion of this can be found in the original announcement HERE