[T-Bone Texan]

I am curious: Does the nicotine in e-cigs come from tobacco?

I understand they must isolate it and do fancy laboratory stuff to get pure nicotine, but what is the raw source?

I simply assumed they are extracting it from tobacco leaves, and thus tobacco growers are not suffering from the advent of vaping.

[redgolum]

You don’t need as much tobacco for vaping as you do for traditional tobacco.

You can make synthetic nicotine, but that doesn’t play well to some of the target audience.