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About E-Cigarette Devices

Vaping damages youth brain function, lungs, teeth and more. Drop the habit to save yourself and your loved ones from the dangers of vaping.

WHAT ARE E-CIGARETTES?

E-cigarettes are electronic nicotine delivery systems. Most e-cigarettes operate by heating up vaping liquid from a cartridge to produce a harmful aerosol. Users inhale and exhale the aerosol’s dangerous chemicals, putting themselves and bystanders at risk. While most of them are battery-operated or rechargeable, there are disposable e-cigarette options as well.

E-cigarettes come in various shapes and sizes. Some look like other commercial tobacco products like cigarettes and cigars. Some of the rechargeable e-cigarettes that are most popular with youth look like USB drives, pens and other everyday objects. Mods and tanks are often bulkier than the other types and are more customizable.

These devices are creating a new generation of smokers with serious health problems. E-cigarettes are not safe for youth or adults.

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Some other names for e-cigarettes include:

E-Cigs
Vape Pens
Vapes
NicSticks
Hookahs
Tanks
Mods
Juuls

What They Look Like

E-CIGARETTE TYPES

Vaping and e-cigarette devices come in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, brands, substances and types.

First generation e-cigarettes look like traditional cigarettes.

Generation 1

Disposable E-cigarettes

Designed to be used only once
Not rechargeable or refillable
Discarded once dead or out of e-liquid
Mimic the look of traditional cigarettes

Second generation e-cigarettes contain a compartment to be filled with oil or

Generation 2

E-Cigarettes with Prefilled or Refillable Cartridge

E-liquid is prefilled or refillable with nicotine, cannabis (THC, CBD), flavoring, solvents or other substances
Cartridge attaches to a battery pen
Cartridge and battery pen purchased separately or in packs

Third generation e-cigarette devices have larger tanks for oils and juices for vaping.

Generation 3

Tanks or Mods

Rechargeable product
Modifiable devices (“mods”) allow users to customize the substances in the device

Fourth generation e-cigarettes are slim devices that may look like a USB drive and use small refill pods and are often disposable.

Generation 4

Pod Mods

Product with a prefilled or refillable ‘‘pod’’ or pod cartridge with a modifiable (mod) system (“Pod-Mods”)
Many shapes, sizes and colors.
Common brands include JUUL® and Suorin ®
Prefilled pod cartridges that contain nicotine, THC or CBD with or without flavoring.

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