Study says e-cigarettes may contain carcinogens similar to regular cigarettes
This is the one that worried me a little more, if its accurate of course. But like i said, i was just offering some information and not giving a definitive analysis. I was hoping to get some opinions on that (and not the credibility of the "research," after all, that is the point isnt? to read something and form an opinion/conclusion??)
Thanks again
If I may jump in here? The credibility of the research is
extremely important - more so than someone's opinion on whether or not to believe it. Especially when a "study" is not really even a study. It was clearly propaganda to support the French government's wish to ban or severely restrict the sales of e-cigarettes.
Please read CASAA's report on that so-called study:
CASAA: French e-cigarette study, media misrepresent facts
why are ANY of these in
ejuice?
Because e-cigarette liquid with nicotine uses nicotine extracted from tobacco and therefore, tiny, trace amounts of chemicals found in tobacco will be found in e-cigarettes (and anything else that contains nicotine extracted from tobacco - including FDA-approved nicotine patches, gums, nasal sprays and lozenges.) Because the FDA approves those smoking cessation products containing the same trace chemicals and metals, the agency obviously does not consider those levels to be toxic or carcinogenic (unless they are in the e-cigarettes the agency wants to regulate, of course.) As for the formaldehyde, it has been shown that the amounts found "in e-cigarette vapor" are equal to or below the levels of formaldehyde found naturally in human breath. Those studies failed to show that the formaldehyde came from the vapor rather than the breath of the researchers in the room (they used room air to flush the smoking machines used for testing.)
If you read the numbers from the French test, they used the highest possible amounts found in e-cigarettes and compared them to the lowest possible amounts found in cigarette smoke. No one even knows if those lower amounts found in cigarette smoke are even harmful to humans at those low levels. It's like claiming apple
juice is just as poisonous as rat poison, because apple
juice can contain 1 to 10 ppm of arsenic and rat poison contains 9 to 1,000 ppm of arsenic. Except they don't tell you the FDA says apple juice with less than 10 ppm of naturally-occurring arsenic is non-toxic and safe to drink and rat poison usually contains a deadly 1,000 ppm not a safe 9 ppm! (This is EXACTLY what the French organization did when comparing e-cigarette vapor to cigarette smoke.)
Hope that helps clear things up a bit.
