Ignorant question regarding menthol

[bombastinator2]

I don't know.

Just guessing, I suspect some will switch to non-menthol. Those who live close to state borders will probably make the trek to other states to get their menthol cigs.

Perhaps, and hopefully, it will drive some to vaping. Maybe some will quit altogether.

Apparently people switching to non menthol are dipping them in dilute menthol liquid or painting it on or using what look a lot like the clove “spikes” that made the rounds when kreteks became illegal. If this follows the trend of cloves though interest will die out in a few years.

 

[Rossum]

I still say a federal ban is likely to hit the toilet, yet again.

I'm not in favor of banning much of anything, so I hope you are correct.

I'd have never thought that I would be a minty vaper.

To each their own.

That is of course, one of the great things about what vaping used to be, and still is, for most of us here who've made ourselves FDA-proof.

 

[Rossum]

Apparently people switching to non menthol are dipping them in dilute menthol liquid or painting it on

If I were still smoking menthols and they were banned, I expect I'd be doing something like that too. I mean a 4-oz bag of menthol crystals for $10 would probably last a very long time.

 

[bombastinator2]

So I googled “history of menthol extraction” and ran into a research gate article which I was not expecting. It’s apparently also called “mint camphor”. The article was this one:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shafaq-Nisar/publication/336134964_Extraction_Production_and_Analysis_Techniques_for_Menthol_A_review/links/5d91d149299bf10cff1a20b5/Extraction-Production-and-Analysis-Techniques-for-Menthol-A-review.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ

 

[Rossum]

 

[bombastinator2]

I wonder what thes are then? I could do 3 packs of these a day. Newports were a way to try and cut back. Didn’t work.