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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2019 Sep 13;16(11):1193–1203. doi: 10.1080/17425247.2019.1665647

Table 1.

Labeled and Measured Nicotine Content in E-Cigarettes

Study Solution Labeled Concentration Measured concentration % Deviation
Lisko et al [18] Refill solution 0 to 24 mg/ml 0 to 20.5 mg/ml −41.7 to −5.8%
Cheng [26] Cartridge
Refill solution
N/A 0 to 19.0mg
0 to 87.2mg/ml
−100 to 100%
−100 to 100%
Goniewicz et al [27] Refill solution (US)
Refill solution (Poland)
0 to 36mg/ml
0 to 4mg/ml
BLQ to 36.6mg/ml
ND to 24.7mg/ml
28.% with ≥20% variation
10% with ≥20% variation
Tierney et al [28] Refill solution 6 to 24mg/ml N/A N/A
Davis et al [29] Refill solution 0 to 60mg/ml 0 to 134.7mg/ml 10% with ≥10% variation
Etter and Budgey [30] Refill solution 16 to 48mg/ml 15.5 to 52.0mg/ml 18% with ≥10% variation
Kim et al [31] Refill solution N/A “not detectable” to 17.5mg/ml (“Pure nicotine” 150.3mg/ml) −32.2 to 3.3%
Raymond et al [32] Refill solution 0mg/ml
18mg/ml
0 to 23.9mg/ml
11.6 to 27.4mg/ml
91.4% with detectable nicotine
−35 to 52%