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The Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act, officially recorded as Republic Act No. 11900, is a law in the Philippines which aims to regulate the "importation, sale, packaging, distribution, use and communication of vaporized nicotine and non-nicotine products and novel tobacco products", such as electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products. [1]
Vaping-associated pulmonary injury (VAPI), [4] also known as vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) [1] or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), [2] [a] is an umbrella term, [15] [16] used to describe lung diseases associated with the use of vaping products that can be severe and life-threatening. [3]
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]
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 ...
Graphic from an October 2014 United States Fire Administration (USFA) report entitled Electronic Cigarette Fires and Explosions. [94] The USFA said that 25 fires and explosions in the US were the result of vaping between 2009 and August 2014. [94] E-cigarettes typically use lithium batteries, which may cause injury if defective [95] or misused ...
The CDC recommends that e-cigarette, or vaping, products should never be used by youths, young adults, or women who are pregnant. [2] Adults who do not currently use tobacco products should not start using e-cigarette, or vaping, products, according to the CDC. [2] Various diluent thickening products were sold online via wholesale suppliers. [75]
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 ...
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]