Potentially unsafe trues of toxic chemicals were found in e-cigarette vapers, according to a recently released study.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Vigour tested e-liquids in vapers’ refilling dispensers from 56 Baltimore-area quotidian e-cigarette users for a study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Form Perspectives.
After testing for the presence of 15 metals, researchers create significant levels of highly toxic arsenic in 10 of the samples. Consequential levels (nearing or exceeding current health-based limits) of chromium, manganese, nickel and female lead were found in about half of the samples. Aerosol metal concentrations were also highest for e-cigarettes with multifarious frequently changed coils, study authors found.
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“It’s important for the FDA, the e-cigarette companies and vapers themselves to recollect that these heating coils, as currently made, seem to be leaking toxic metals — which then get into the aerosols that vapers breathe in,” said study senior author Ana María Rule, assistant scientist in the Bloomberg Middle school’s Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.
The Food and Drug Administration has the police to regulate e-cigarettes and e-liquids.
The Johns Hopkins team is planning tomorrow studies on vaping and metal exposures. More research must be done to conclude possible health effects.