"several hundred times safer" - quite possibly. Some toxins have been shown to be 1000 times less in vapor than in cigarette smoke. But not zero. We need to be careful when making statements.
But some strange 'facts' and logic mentoned : " the operating temperature of an e-cigarette is only 5 to 10% of the temperature of a tobacco cigarette that they are, as a class of products, not likely to produce toxic substances in their mist that will affect bystanders". There are more examples in the reports themselves.
Also, I'm not convinced as yet that nicotine would not build up in the lung, staying in slow-evaporating PG/VG ("E-cigarette nicotine is apparently not absorbed from the lung, but from the upper airways").
A surprise: "a trace of mercury"
"Some toxicants remain to be tested"
Note that the results for Ruyan juice might not be similar to other brands (Ruyan results are likely to be better).
It would not be wise to claim zero/no harmful emissions, whch there is a tendency to do. Better to say 'neglible. Sadly, the NZ reports themselves have this tendency, even sounding a little like marketing at times.
Are the test results available online? Othe than:
http://healthnz.co.nz/RuyanCartridgeReport21-Oct-08.pdf
The results
are very good news. But the fact is that quite a number of toxins do exist in the vapor (at least 10), but in trace amounts. I find the spin in the conclusions within the reports themselves and also in the way they are fanfared is a bit distressing. Overstating the case leaves one wide-open to ridicule.
