The proprietary tobacco sticks used in HTPs usually include a mixture of real tobacco, vegetable glycerin (increases the visible vapor), and a binding agent (such as guar gum)
Indeed, there have been several variations on the same idea throughout the franchise's history
The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, which ended discount sales of tobacco products at commissaries and exchanges, also prohibited any new policy that would ban the sale of tobacco products within the defense retail systems or on any Department of Defense vessel at sea
JACC Basic Transl Sci
Subsequent animal studies verify that exposure to nicotine or systemic administration of nicotine has consistent antinociceptive effects in different rodent models (for review, see Shi et al., 2010)
Under this proposal the federal government would increase its cigarette tax rate and distribute the revenue among the states, while the states would eliminate their cigarette taxes