In recent years, many people have turned to electronic cigarettes, either as a less dangerous alternative or to try to stop the regular cigarette. However, a new study found that e-cigarettes contain up to 10 times more carcinogenic ingredients than the tobacco products they are supposed to protect us from.
Electronic cigarettes are supposed to replace a dangerous and destructive habit, but they are much more dangerous. But why was there no research before their approval and production, research supposed to prove their inoffensiveness to health and their viability?
What is an electronic cigarette or E-cigarette?
Electronic cigarettes are products designed to provide nicotine or other substances to a user in the form of steam. Typically, they consist of a rechargeable battery-powered heating element, a replaceable cartridge that may contain nicotine or other chemicals, and an atomizer that, when heated, converts the contents of the cartridge into steam. This vapor can then be inhaled by the user. These products are often made to look like products such as cigarettes, cigars and pipes. They can also look like pens or USB sticks.
10 times more carcinogenic effects
According to research conducted by Japanese scientists, e-cigarettes contain 10 times more carcinogens than regular cigarettes. For a long time, e-cigarettes were recommended as an answer to smoking without danger to health.
These nicotine-based electronic products have become very popular because people believe they are getting a lot of nicotine without having to worry about the health damage caused by a normal, chemical-laden cigarette.
But when the Japanese Ministry of Health commissioned a search, he found carcinogenic formaldehyde and acetaldehydes in the liquid produced by many e-cigarette products. That's what was said by an official of the Ministry of Health.
According to the researchers, carcinogenic formaldehyde is much more present in e-cigarette liquids than in the chemicals used in regular cigarettes.
One of the researchers Naoki Kunugita said that in an e-cigarette brand, the team found more than 10 times the level of carcinogens contained in a regular cigarette. Especially when the duct (which vaporizes the liquid) is overheated, higher amounts of these harmful substances are produced.
Kunugita also added that the levels of carcinogenic formaldehyde vary in the final results.
Cigarettes whose danger is becoming more and more clear
"You call them e-cigarettes, but they are totally different from regular tobacco, and the government is looking at the possible risks associated with them, to see how they should be regulated," said the head of the Japanese Ministry of Commerce. the health.
Earlier in 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised governments to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors because they posed a serious threat to them.
The UN health agency said that although there is more evidence of the damage caused by e-cigarettes, there is enough "to warn children and adolescents, pregnant women and women of childbearing age ". They also added that e-cigarettes should be banned in enclosed public spaces.
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said more than a quarter of a million young people who had never smoked a cigarette were using e-cigarettes in 2013, according to a study by the US center published in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. This number has tripled from about 79,000 in 2011 to more than 263,000 in 2013.
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