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New Study Claims E-Cigarette Vapor No More Dangerous Than Air
Guy Bentley
7:43 PM 07/17/2015
Inhaling vapor from E-cigarettes is as safe as breathing air, according to a new paper that compared two E-cigarettes with regular cigarettes and air.
Research published in Toxicology in Vitro used a combination of tests to find out whether E-cigarette vapor is harmful to people’s airways. To model the possible harmful effect of E-cigarette vapor, which contains among other things nicotine and flavorings, British American tobacco partnered with tissue engineering firm MatTek to use a smoking robot with respiratory tissue.
After six hours of exposure to tobacco smoke, cells died off but after an “aggressive and continuous” dose of vapor, the effect on airway tissue was “similar to that of air.”
“By employing a combination of a smoking robot and a lab-based test using respiratory tissue, it was possible to demonstrate the ability to induce and measure aerosol irritancy and to show that the different e-cigarette aerosols used in this study have no cytotoxic effect on human airway tissue,” said BAT spokesperson Dr Marina Murphy.
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New Study Claims E-Cigarette Vapor No More Dangerous Than Air
Guy Bentley
7:43 PM 07/17/2015
Inhaling vapor from E-cigarettes is as safe as breathing air, according to a new paper that compared two E-cigarettes with regular cigarettes and air.
Research published in Toxicology in Vitro used a combination of tests to find out whether E-cigarette vapor is harmful to people’s airways. To model the possible harmful effect of E-cigarette vapor, which contains among other things nicotine and flavorings, British American tobacco partnered with tissue engineering firm MatTek to use a smoking robot with respiratory tissue.
After six hours of exposure to tobacco smoke, cells died off but after an “aggressive and continuous” dose of vapor, the effect on airway tissue was “similar to that of air.”
“By employing a combination of a smoking robot and a lab-based test using respiratory tissue, it was possible to demonstrate the ability to induce and measure aerosol irritancy and to show that the different e-cigarette aerosols used in this study have no cytotoxic effect on human airway tissue,” said BAT spokesperson Dr Marina Murphy.
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