MTL or DTL? What’s the Deal with Vaping Styles
If I weren’t a vaper and read the term mouth-to-lung vaping, I’d probably imagine someone drawing vapour into their cheeks and leaving it at that. In reality, it simply means you don’t inhale it straight into your lungs. Incidentally, that’s how smoking usually works too.
With direct-to-lung vaping, on the other hand, you might picture pulling the vapour straight down into your lungs in one go. Most vapers, though, probably sit somewhere between these two theoretical extremes. Why? For the flavour, if nothing else. If you inhale the vapour directly into your lungs in one continuous pull without any natural pause, you’ll barely taste the e-liquid at all. In practice, the flavour passes through your mouth first anyway. And that’s exactly what mouth-to-lung vaping is. Of course, MTL vapers ultimately inhale the vapour into their lungs too — they don’t just pull it into their cheeks and blow it straight back out. There may be exceptions, but they’re hardly the norm. With smoking, that would simply be puffing without inhaling.
People often say that direct-to-lung vaping only works with low-resistance setups, while mouth-to-lung vaping is done with higher-resistance coils. Sorry, but I think that’s nonsense to a point, because even with sub-ohm coils you can still taste the vapour in your mouth first. You don’t have to rip on your battery like crazy and send it straight down into your lungs. Whether you’re actually aware of that is another question.
So what’s the point of it all? Apparently, direct-to-lung vaping produces bigger clouds than mouth-to-lung vaping. Right — hardly any flavour, but a massive cloud! Our verdict: find out for yourself what tastes better to you — big clouds or plenty of flavour.
