Vice

Why a range of sizes is genuinely useful

Most disposable brands have drifted steadily upwards in capacity, on the reasonable logic that more liquid means fewer purchases. What that misses is that a device only represents value if you finish it while it still tastes good.

Someone who vapes socially at weekends and someone replacing twenty cigarettes a day are shopping for genuinely different products. Buying the largest device available is not automatically better value for the first person, because the flavour will decline long before the liquid runs out.

A brand that offers several sizes lets you match the device to your actual consumption. Track how long one device lasts you before moving up or down a step, and our disposable vape life calculator turns that into an estimate rather than a guess.

The five devices and who each suits

The Air at $19.99 is the most compact and the lightest. It is the one to choose for a bag or a shirt pocket, or for occasional rather than daily use.

The 2500 at the same $19.99 offers more capacity in a slightly larger body, which makes it the better value of the two for anyone vaping most days. The Boost at $22.99 steps up again and sits in the middle of the range.

The 6000 at $24.99 is the high capacity option for daily use, and the Nexus at $27.99 is the flagship. At the top of the range it is worth running the numbers in our vaping versus smoking cost calculator against a refillable setup, because at that price point the gap narrows considerably.

The Canadian Vice range compared

Five disposables across a clear capacity ladder, with prices as listed.

Read the capacity column as relative rather than absolute. Ranking within a brand is reliable information, while headline puff counts across brands are laboratory figures produced by a machine that draws far more consistently than any person.

What the puff numbers in the names mean

Several devices in this range carry a number in the name, which refers to a rated puff count. Those figures come from a testing machine drawing a consistent two to three second puff under controlled conditions, described in ISO 20768, the vaping machine standard.

Human beings do not draw consistently. A long, satisfying pull can be twice the volume of a testing puff, which is why the honest expectation from a device rated at 6000 puffs is closer to 3000 in normal use.

The number is still useful as a ranking within a brand, because the same test was applied to each device. It is much less useful for comparing across brands, and the liquid volume in millilitres is always the more honest figure where a manufacturer states it.

Salt nicotine and the Canadian cap

Everything in this range uses salt nicotine at or under 20 mg/mL. Salt nicotine has an acid added that lowers the pH, which makes higher strengths far smoother than freebase would be. That is exactly what a small, low powered device needs in order to satisfy without scratching the throat.

It also absorbs faster, so the relief arrives sooner. For someone who has just stopped smoking that speed matters, because a slow onset tends to produce continuous vaping while you wait for an effect.

The trade off is that 20 mg salt is genuinely strong. Someone who was a light smoker often finds it too much, and the symptoms are dizziness and nausea rather than satisfaction. Our nicotine strength calculator suggests a starting point based on your previous habit rather than giving everyone the same answer.

Getting the most from a Vice device

Draw slowly and gently rather than hard. A sharp pull floods the coil, wastes liquid as condensation and makes the device gurgle. Leave a few seconds between draws so the wick can reabsorb.

Keep it upright and at room temperature. Heat degrades the liquid and the battery, and a car in a Canadian summer gets hot enough to matter. Deep cold is the opposite problem, temporarily reducing usable battery capacity so a healthy device reads as dead, which we explain in vaping in cold weather.

Recycle finished devices at a battery drop off point. Every disposable contains a lithium cell, and lithium in household waste is a real and growing cause of fires in Canadian collection vehicles and sorting facilities.

Common problems and what they mean

A burnt taste with liquid still visible means the wick can no longer keep up with the coil. That is the device telling you it has finished, and charging will not reverse it because the cotton is carbonised.

No vapour and no light means flat on a rechargeable device or finished on a non rechargeable one. If it is rechargeable, try a different cable first, because cables fail at the connector far more often than devices fail.

Gurgling or a harsh wet draw means the coil is flooded, usually from draws that are too hard. Stand it upright for a few minutes and draw more gently afterwards. Our walkthrough at disposable vape troubleshooting covers the remaining causes in order of likelihood.

Choosing between Vice and a refillable setup

Disposables win on convenience. Nothing to charge if you buy a non rechargeable one, nothing to fill, nothing to clean, nothing to learn, and no up front hardware cost.

Refillables win on running cost, and the gap widens the more you vape. The device is a one off purchase and the recurring cost is liquid and coils, both of which are much cheaper per millilitre than buying a sealed device every few days. Our refillable versus disposable vapes comparison sets this out properly.

A reasonable pattern that many people settle on is a refillable device from our vape kits range for everyday use, with a compact disposable such as the Air kept in a bag as a backup for the days when charging was forgotten.

How Vice compares with other brands we stock

Against the other Canadian disposable brands, Allo and Flavour Beast, Vice offers the widest capacity ladder while those two also offer bottled e liquid and, in Allo case, a refillable pod route.

Against Gcore and Lost Mary, which compete at the very high capacity end, Vice generally offers more choice at the smaller sizes, which suits lighter users better.

Against a closed pod system such as STLTH or Vuse, the trade is between a lower running cost on one side and nothing at all to maintain on the other. Vice is purely a disposable brand and does not offer a reusable route of its own.

Flavour, and making a device last the distance

In any disposable the coil has to survive as long as the liquid, and it ages while you use it. That is why flavour declines gradually across a device rather than staying constant and then stopping, and why the last quarter of any disposable tastes duller than the first.

There is a second effect people regularly mistake for a failing device. Vaping one flavour continuously dulls your sensitivity to it, which has nothing to do with the hardware at all. If a flavour seems to have faded but the device is otherwise behaving normally, switching to a different family for a day usually restores it completely.

Iced profiles tend to hold up better than sweet ones over the life of a device, because the cooling agents mask the gradual decline of a tiring coil. Our roundup of best vape flavours in Canada is a good place to find a contrasting profile, and ice pods versus regular pods explains how the cooling actually works.

Canadian availability and the rules that apply

Every Vice product we list sits at or under the federal 20 mg/mL nicotine cap set out in Tobacco and Vaping Products Act. That is why Canadian versions are not directly comparable to the same model sold in markets with a higher ceiling, which is worth knowing if you are reading international reviews.

Flavour availability is decided provincially rather than federally, so the range differs depending on where you live, and we keep the current picture in vaping laws by province. Because every device in this range is a disposable containing a lithium cell, the recycling obligation applies to all of them without exception.

We operate an age gate on every visit and ship only inside Canada in Canadian dollars. Carriers, timings and tracking are on our shipping and delivery page and faults on our returns policy page. Anything containing a lithium cell travels in cabin baggage rather than checked luggage when flying, as Transport Canada lithium battery rules requires, and our guide to taking a vape on a plane covers the rest.

Common questions

Which Vice device should I buy?

Match it to your consumption rather than buying the largest. The Air at $19.99 suits occasional use and pocket carry, the 2500 at the same price is better value for most days, the Boost and 6000 suit daily use, and the Nexus at $27.99 suits the heaviest use.

Do the numbers in the names mean real puff counts?

They are laboratory figures from a machine drawing a consistent two to three second puff. Human draws are longer and more variable, so roughly half is the honest expectation. The numbers rank devices within the brand reliably but compare poorly across brands.

Are Vice devices rechargeable?

The higher capacity models are, because a battery large enough to vaporise all the liquid in one charge would make the device impractically big. Recharging lets you finish the liquid already sealed inside. It does not extend the coil or make the device refillable.

Why does my Vice taste burnt when there is still liquid?

The wick can no longer keep up with the coil, so it is heating dry cotton. That is the end of the useful life rather than a charging problem, and it cannot be reversed. Gentler draws with a few seconds between them delay it noticeably.

What nicotine strength do Vice devices use?

Salt nicotine at or under the federal Canadian cap of 20 mg/mL. Salt is smoother at high strengths and absorbs faster than freebase, which suits small low power devices. It is genuinely strong, and lighter former smokers often find it too much.

Is Vice a Canadian brand?

Yes, and its products are formulated to sit within the federal 20 mg/mL nicotine cap from the outset rather than being reduced versions of something designed for a market with a higher limit.