I'm going to start a habit of passing on the answers I or Aileen give to CS questions that we think might also be of interest to others. Some of these will be already old knowledge to our forum regulars, but they might still be of interest to newer Bloogers.
Here's the first, from a question posed by Steven, in Massachusetts:
That's a great question, and I don't blame you for wondering. For decades now we've been told that there is no such thing as a less hazardous tobacco product, so it's hard to believe that e-cigarettes don't have the same carcinogens as cigarettes do.
I can't honestly tell you that e-liquids like Bloog's Liquid Fusion don't contain any nitrosamines, myosmine, or other carcinogens. The nicotine in Liquid Fusion and all other e- cigarette liquids is derived from tobacco, so some trace amounts are unavoidable.
What I can say is that they only contain barely detectable trace amounts far, far below the dose threshold necessary to have any effect on the human body, and in amounts no greater than other, FDA approved nicotine replacement therapy products, like the patch. And that out of 20 TSNAs (tobacco-specific nitrosamines) and 60 known carcinogens in cigarettes, FDA testing found only trace amounts of 4 TSNAs, and in amounts barely above the
minimum detectable threshold. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ScienceResearch/UCM173250.pdf
Here's an article by Dr. Michael Siegal, an anti-tobacco activist and researcher, and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, who neatly summarizes the issue:
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/07/list-of-identified-known-carcinogens-in.html
Kind of says it all, don't it?
Here's the first, from a question posed by Steven, in Massachusetts:
Hi Steven,
That's a great question, and I don't blame you for wondering. For decades now we've been told that there is no such thing as a less hazardous tobacco product, so it's hard to believe that e-cigarettes don't have the same carcinogens as cigarettes do.
I can't honestly tell you that e-liquids like Bloog's Liquid Fusion don't contain any nitrosamines, myosmine, or other carcinogens. The nicotine in Liquid Fusion and all other e- cigarette liquids is derived from tobacco, so some trace amounts are unavoidable.
What I can say is that they only contain barely detectable trace amounts far, far below the dose threshold necessary to have any effect on the human body, and in amounts no greater than other, FDA approved nicotine replacement therapy products, like the patch. And that out of 20 TSNAs (tobacco-specific nitrosamines) and 60 known carcinogens in cigarettes, FDA testing found only trace amounts of 4 TSNAs, and in amounts barely above the
minimum detectable threshold. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ScienceResearch/UCM173250.pdf
Here's an article by Dr. Michael Siegal, an anti-tobacco activist and researcher, and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, who neatly summarizes the issue:
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/07/list-of-identified-known-carcinogens-in.html
Kind of says it all, don't it?
