New Study Reveals E-Cigarette Vapor No More Dangerous Than Air

[KTMRider]

Development of an in vitro cytotoxicity model for aerosol exposure using 3D reconstructed human airway tissue; application for assessment of e-cigarette aerosol

This study demonstrates the applicability of physiologically relevant EpiAirway™ tissue used in combination with a VITROCELL® VC 01 exposure system for the assessment and comparison of cigarette smoke and e-cigarette aerosol. Despite being tested with a more intense puffing regime, e-cigarette aerosol showed no acute cytotoxicity in this study when compared with traditional 3R4F reference cigarette smoke. Under the study conditions cigarette smoke demonstrated a dose-dependent response that resulted in near-complete cell death after a 6 h exposure period. In contrast, e-cigarette aerosol showed no decrease in tissue viability following a 6 h exposure, despite appropriate positive control responses. Furthermore, cytotoxicity appears to be unaffected by different e-cigarette formulations as tested in this study. Further studies will need to be conducted to compare between different commercially available products, formats, and formulations, but our data suggest that e-cigarette aerosols have significantly less impact than cigarette smoke over the duration of a 6 h exposure in vitro using organotypic tissue constructs.

 

[TheRac25]

they found vapor didn't kill cells like smoke. I don't know how you got "Vapor No More Dangerous Than Air" from it

 

[Sgt.Rock]

"A dose-dependent decrease in cell viability was seen following incremental hourly exposures to cigarette smoke for up to 6 h, resulting in reductions of around 90% at the highest dose (Fig. 7). By contrast, the two e-cigarettes did not cause cytotoxic effects under any of the test conditions, despite a much larger puff volume and exposure frequency in the e-cigarette machine smoking regime"

Sounds about like breathing air to me.

 

[Underwhelmed]

New study: vaping no more toxic than breathing air | E-Cigarette Forum

 

[suprtrkr]

Lol, take that, FDA. Come to think, I have been in places where the air probably is worse for you than vape.

 

[Robino1]

Moved and closing as there is one already here in Media and General News.