A new study recently published in British Medical Association Tobacco Control discusses the discovery of high levels of chemicals found in some e-cigarette fluids.
The study has been released a team led by Portland State University professor James F. Pankow found high levels of flavor chemicals in some e-cigarette fluids. Some of the flavor chemicals may pose health concerns for daily e-cigarette users, or “vapers.”
“Many folks believe that daily use of e-cigarettes is less dangerous than smoking cigarettes. But no one really knows how safe chronic use of e-cigarettes is. It is also certainly true that there are more and less safe ways to ‘vape’ – and maybe even true that some ways of vaping are quite unsafe,” Pankow explains. “The bottom line is that if I had to vape, I would definitely avoid high levels of flavor chemicals – particularly aldehyde flavor chemicals such as vanillin. The trouble is, there is no way for consumers to make informed decisions.”
Accordingly U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley has moved forward to pressure the FDA to enact rules to address the dangerous flavorings and as well as marketing that is clearly designed to attract children, and also to designate child-proof packaging of the liquid nicotine product.
Merkley comments, “I have repeatedly called on the FDA to regulate tobacco candy and e-cigarettes and this study from PSU researchers is just another example of why federal regulation is so important. Not only are flavors targeting children and inviting them to use e-cigarettes, but this study shows that flavor chemicals can be dangerous when inhaled. Without the federal regulation of e-cigarettes, we are putting our children at risk. The FDA has been asleep at the switch and needs to use the power Congress gave it to regulate these harmful products.”
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