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The scientific community in the United States and Europe are primarily concerned with the possible effect of electronic cigarette use on public health. [1] There is concern among public health experts that e-cigarettes could renormalize smoking, weaken measures to control tobacco, [2] and serve as a gateway for smoking among youth. [3]
The impurities associated with nicotine are not as toxic as nicotine. The health effects of vaping tobacco alkaloids that stem from nicotine impurities in e-liquids is not known. [99]: Minor Tobacco Alkaloids, 193 Nicotine affects practically every cell in the body. [73] The complex effects of nicotine are not entirely understood. [200]
E-cigarette vapor is made up of fine and ultrafine particles of particulate matter. [55] Vaping [notes 7] generates particulate matter 2.5 μm or less in diameter (PM 2.5), but at notably less concentrations compared to cigarette smoke. [55] Particle concentrations from vaping ranged from 6.6 to 85.0 μg/m 3. [53]
Take a recent study, which tested both e-cigarette vapor and cigarette smoke on lung cells and found e-cigarettes to be much less harmful. In fact, e-cigarettes only damaged the cells when vapor ...
An electronic cigarette (e-cigarette), or vape, [note 1] [1] is a device that simulates smoking. It consists of an atomizer, a power source such as a battery, and a container such as a cartridge or tank. Instead of smoke, the user inhales vapor. [2] As such, using an e-cigarette is often called "vaping". [3]
A 2018 review states that "The recent advent of 'vitamin vaping' and aggressive marketing by some e-cigarette companies that claim that vaping e-cigarettes containing a variety of vitamins (vitamins A, B12, C, and D) is worrying as at this current time, clinically determining the concentration of any given vitamin that is systemically absorbed ...
This indicated that exposure to e-cigarette components in a susceptible time period of brain development could induce persistent behavioral changes. [17] E-cigarette aerosols without containing nicotine could harm the growing conceptus. [115] This indicates that the ingredients in the e-liquid, such as the flavors, could be developmental toxicants.
While subject to state and local sales tax, vaping products are not subject to Texas’ cigarette tax. Texas taxes cigarettes, but not vaping products. Here’s why