what are the risks of e cigarettes?
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['ultrafine particles that can be inhaled deep into the lungs.', 'flavorants such as diacetyl, a chemical linked to serious lung disease.', 'volatile organic compounds.', 'heavy metals, such as nickel, tin, and lead.']
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Nicotine can increase your heart rate and blood pressure and cause dizziness, nausea, and stomach pain. Inhalation of this product may aggravate existing respiratory conditions. Ingestion of the non-vaporized concentrated ingredients in the cartridges can be poisonous.
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Tobacco smoking can lead to lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. It increases the risk of heart disease, which can lead to stroke or heart attack. Smoking has also been linked to other cancers, leukemia, cataracts, Type 2 Diabetes, and pneumonia.
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Manufacturers claim that e-cigarettes bypass many of the health risks of tobacco smoking, providing a healthful alternative. While these devices may help some people quit smoking, there is growing evidence that e-cigarettes can pose serious health risks, especially to people who do not smoke traditional cigarettes.
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Per FDA regulations, e-cigarettes, e-liquid, and associated products cannot be advertised as safer than other tobacco products unless they have received modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) status. As of August 2018, this status has not been granted to any e-cigarette or e-liquid product.
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The following year, the Food and Drug Administration tested two popular brands of e-cigarettes — NJOY and Smoking Everywhere — and found that they expose users to harmful chemical ingredients, including diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical used in antifreeze, and carcinogens, including nitrosamines.
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Electronic smoking devices (ESDs) do not just emit “harmless water vapor.” Secondhand aerosol (incorrectly called vapor by the industry) from ESDs contains nicotine, ultrafine particles and low levels of toxins that are known to cause cancer.
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E-cigarettes, like JUUL, can leak heavy metals and residual nicotine into the environment. Because of heavy metals and residual nicotine, e-cigarettes may qualify as both e-waste and biohazard waste.
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In recent weeks, there have been close to 400 cases of severe acute lung disease from vaping, and at least six deaths due to e-cigarette use. Most of these events were thought to be due to vaping liquid being contaminate with THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), one of the active substances in cannabis.
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This is because concentrated nicotine in the liquids used by e-cigarettes is poisonous. Nicotine can cause nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. In high enough doses, nicotine paralyzes the respiratory system or causes respiratory failure, leading to tremors, cyanosis, dypnoea, convulsion, collapse or coma.
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Low doses may cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and eye irritation. High doses of nicotine may cause tachycardia, high blood pressure, seizures, coma, and death. Moreover, the FDA reported detecting ethylene glycol in some of the e-cigarettes and cancer-causing substances called nitrosamines in others.
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“If you are around somebody who is using e-cigarettes, you are breathing an aerosol of exhaled nicotine, ultra-fine particles, volatile organic compounds, and other toxins.” Dr. Stanton Glantz, Director for the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Some e-cigarette vapor contains ingredients that could be toxic, including nickel, tin, lead, benzene and formaldehyde. Long-term exposure to these substances in e-cigarette vapor could potentially lead to injury and disease, including cancer, and can affect reproductive health.
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The cartridges used during vaping contains nicotine, therefore vaping is addictive. In low doses vaping, can cause side effects like nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. In higher doses, vaping can cause more serious side effects like popcorn lung, seizures, coma, cancer, and death.
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['Atomizer: The heating element inside of your e-cigarette device. ... ', 'Batteries: The power source to your device. ... ', 'Cartomizer: A cartridge with a built-in atomizer. ... ', 'Clouds: A popular term for the vapor that is exhaled after taking a hit of your e-cigarette.', 'Coil: The metal heat-conductor within the heating element.']
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About e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes are devices that make vapour for smoking. They're often marketed as a way to quit smoking, but there isn't enough evidence to show that they help — or are safe. In Australia, it's illegal to sell e-cigarettes that contain nicotine.
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Long-term exposure to nicotine may affect teens' behavior, concentration, memory and their ability to learn. Young people who vape are more likely to smoke conventional cigarettes in the future. In high doses, nicotine exposure can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and even seizures and death.