How long does a vape last? Days, from the maker's rating
A vape ends when its liquid, charge or coil runs out. The Geek Bar Pulse X and ELFBAR 600 puff ratings, turned into days at stated puffs a day.
How many packs of cigarettes are in a vape? Three methods
A Geek Bar Pulse X is 3 to 125 packs and an ELFBAR 600 is 0.13 to 3, depending on the method. The makers' specs, the sums, and why they disagree.
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How old do you have to be to vape? 21 US, 18 UK
21 in the US under federal Tobacco 21. 18 in the UK, where from 29 October 2026 the age limit covers every vape, nicotine-free ones included.
Can you get second hand smoke from a vape? Who says what
A vape makes no smoke, but bystanders breathe exhaled aerosol with nicotine in it. The NHS, Alberta, AHA News, ANR and one lab study, side by side.
Geek Bar Pulse X Pulse mode vs Regular mode, explained
Geek Bar rates the Pulse X at 25,000 puffs in Regular and 15,000 in Pulse from 18 mL. What the switch changes, and which wattages are only retailer claims.
How much nicotine is in a Geek Bar Pulse X? 900 mg, by mode
18 mL at 5% is 900 mg of nicotine per Pulse X. Split by Geek Bar's own ratings: 0.036 mg a puff in Regular, 0.06 mg in Pulse, and what that is per day.
How long does a Geek Bar Pulse X last? Days, by mode
Geek Bar rates the Pulse X at 25,000 puffs in Regular mode and 15,000 in Pulse from 18 mL. What that comes to in days, at 120 to 400 puffs a day.
Why is my Geek Bar Pulse X blinking and not hitting?
Geek Bar says the Pulse X charges to 80% in 20 minutes; its pages give no blink code. What the maker supports, and what only retailers claim.
How to tell if a Geek Bar Pulse X is fake: the maker's check
Geek Bar's own verification page puts the label on the side of the box and says each code verifies once, so a failed check alone does not prove a fake.
Geek Bar Pulse X 2 vs Pulse X: what is the difference
The Pulse X's figures are all on geekbar.com. The Pulse X 2's mostly are not. What the maker publishes, what it footnotes, and what only retailers say.
Geek Bar Pulse X vs Geek Bar Pulse 15000: the difference
Pulse X vs Pulse 15000 in geekbar.com's own figures: 25K vs 15K stated puffs, 18 ml vs 16 ml, and the Pulse 2 and Pulse X 2 now leading the maker's site.
FDA authorises the JUUL2 device and two pods — the authorisation column still fills with refillables
The FDA's 28 August 2026 marketing order covers a JUUL2 device plus a tobacco pod and a menthol pod. Read from a disposables desk, the news is the architecture, not the brand.
FOGER Switch Pro 30K Nixodine, reviewed: 19 ml of the thing that isn't nicotine
A 6-methylnicotine-related fill dropped onto a pod-and-dock platform otherwise identical to FOGER's 5% nicotine line. Assessed on published specification, on what a 5% figure means when the active is an analogue, and on where the regulatory position actually sits.
California AB 762 clears both chambers: two dates, one definition, no signature yet
The bill would end the battery-embedded single-use device in California, but manufacturing and retail stop twelve months apart — and the definition is drawn wide enough that a sealed body with a charging port is still a disposable.
Philippine vape seizures hit PHP 1.65 billion, nearly all at one container port
Customs figures given to a House hearing put seven months of tobacco and vape seizures at roughly 4.6 times the whole of 2025 — and concentrate almost the entire vape number at Manila's container terminal.
JNR Shisha Hookah 70K against the HQD SiSA 80K: 60 ml at 0.6% versus 28 ml at 5%
Two hookah-styled sealed devices written up six days apart, compared on published specification alone — capacity, stated strength, the nicotine each one actually contains, and what each becomes when the liquid runs out.
HQD SiSA 80K, reviewed: 28 ml sealed inside a single body
A high-capacity sealed device with adjustable airflow, a rechargeable cell and an 80,000-puff claim. Assessed on its published specification, its listed prices and the disposal object it becomes.
SKE ordered to post £569,039 before its Crystal design claim reaches trial
A Patents Court judgment puts a number on pursuing a registered-design claim in the UK, and sets a January 2027 trial window for a lookalike dispute this category usually treats as a shopping problem.
Puff-count claims, reviewed against what a device can actually hold
The number on the front of the box is the category's main competitive metric and its least defined one. Reviewed on how it is derived and why two devices with the same figure are not comparable.
E-waste rules start catching up with the vape category
A product containing a lithium cell, sold to be thrown away, was always going to attract waste regulation. Several markets are now applying it in earnest.
The rechargeable, refillable 'disposable', reviewed as a category
The industry's answer to the disposal problem: the same format, the same price point, a charging port and a replaceable pod. Reviewed on whether the compromise holds.
Counterfeit disposables get harder to spot as authentication codes spread
Scratch-panel verification is now near-standard on major brands. The counterfeiters adapted, and the check is only as good as where you perform it.