Flavored E-Cig Liquids May Contain Toxic Substances

Bumiku December 13, 2016
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(HealthDay News) -- Some of the liquid flavorings heated in e-cigarettes appear to break down into potentially dangerous compounds, researchers say. It's not yet clear what this might mean for the health of electronic cigarette users. Whatever the case, e-cigarettes are popular. A 2015 federal survey suggested that 4 percent of U.S. adults use the devices on a regular basis. Nearly 13 percent say they've tried them. But what exactly is in the vapor from e-cigarettes? According to a statement provided by the American Chemical Society, research suggests that the heat converts the "e-liquids" into toxic compounds. For the new study, Andrey Khlystov, from the department of atmospheric sciences at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., and colleagues analyzed vapor from three types of e-cigarettes loaded with flavored and unflavored e-liquids.
The researchers reported that just one puff from one of the e-cigarettes with flavored e-liquid produced levels of toxic compounds considered unhealthy. Vapor from unflavored e-liquids had much lower levels of the compounds, the researchers found. Their study was published Nov. 30 in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. More information For more about e-cigarette use, visit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
States Ranked by the Most Tobacco-Related Deaths: When people think of fatal drugs, most think of substances like meth, heroin or, more recently, prescription opioids. More than alcohol or tobacco, these drugs can cause quick, deadly overdoses that make headlines. Though cigarettes and tobacco aren’t usually part of sensational news stories, they are silent killers.While smoking and tobacco usage in the United States has been dropping steadily for generations, many people still partake. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking remains the largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Tobacco might not frequently cause the acute poisoning that leads to death by overdose, but it clearly can contribute to an untimely demise. With this in mind, the experts at HealthGrove, a health data site powered by Graphiq, examined the most recent data (2009) on smoking-attributable mortality from the CDC to find the states with the most tobacco-related deaths. To calculate the annual smoking-attributable mortality rate by state, HealthGrove averaged the data across years 2005 to 2009. In the case of ties, the state with the larger total number of smoking-attributable deaths ranks higher. Though some of the more stereotypically health-conscious states, such as California, Oregon and Colorado, rank towards the bottom of the list with lower rates of smoking-attributable deaths, no one region of the United States dominates the top. States in all regions — from the South to the East and West — make an appearance in the top 20.
States Ranked by the Most Tobacco-Related Deaths


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