E-cigarettes: Does smokeless mean harmless?

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xpl0it

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hxxp:// www . university of california . edu / news / article / 30025

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Ling says that research is "desperately needed" to determine if the vaporized fluid and other components of e-cigarettes pose health risks, since they already are being aggressively marketed as safe. In addition, e-cigarette manufacturers and advocates are flooding the FDA with comments on the safety of e-cigarettes "with little research to back up their claims."
 

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LOL loved this part
"In a second round of studies, Talbot's team has dissected "cartomizers" — devices used in newer versions of e-cigarettes that combine both the flavored fluid and the battery-powered heater in a single unit. The researchers have found that when heated, the aerosol from one brand of cartomizer-style cigarette contained 21 elements, including a number of metals and metal nanoparticles. One metal, tin, appeared to be released from solder joints in the cartomizers."
 

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According to the TruBot, cartos are "...devices used in newer versions of e-cigarettes that combine both the flavored fluid and the battery-powered heater in a single unit." A bit behind the times are we, TruBot?!

And: "One metal, tin, appeared to be released from solder joints in the cartomizers." Were we using a blowtorch to heat the e-liquid, TruBot?!

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The whole article is a barrel of fun.

'Even though tobacco companies cannot promote conventional tobacco cigarettes on television, she says, we now are seeing TV ads for e-cigarettes. The TV and Internet images may subliminally promote tobacco cigarettes.
"If you look at the ads showing people smoking e-cigarettes, they look very much like they are smoking conventional cigarettes," Ling said.'

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I remember those so called subliminal ads. Like the naked lady which appeared in a glass of Coke being poured. After seeing that ad, everybody wanted sex. Coke sales went down dramatically, no time for that stuff.

(Okay, I made that last part up. But I may have subliminally told you that I want to marry Prue Talbot.)
 
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Ling says that research is "desperately needed" to determine if the vaporized fluid and other components of e-cigarettes pose health risks, since they already are being aggressively marketed as safe. In addition, e-cigarette manufacturers and advocates are flooding the FDA with comments on the safety of e-cigarettes "with little research to back up their claims."

Do THEY all live in a bubble or something? It completely amazes me that ALL positive research is rendered non-existent. I think I am going to start carrying around copies of the Burstyn study and just hand it out every time someone says "there is not enough research". This is by far the most frustrating public health crime I have witnessed!
 

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It seems the real purpose of this "article" is to market this little item. People in SF should register and go.

The TRDRP will host a live event and webcast on the state of the science for electronic cigarettes on Oct. 3, 2013 at UC San Francisco, Parnassus campus. Visit TRDRP:E-Cigarettes: The Vapor This Time? for more information about attending the event and viewing the webcast.
 
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