Disposable vapes release MORE cancer chemicals than traditional cigarettes, shock research indicates
The vaping, which has been launched for a long time as ‘healthier’ alternatives to cigarettes, can actually be more toxic than traditional cigarettes.
Davis, researchers at the University of California, tested seven-flavored e-cigarettes from three of the three most popular brands and released toxic metals that caused more cancer than cigarettes.
One of the disposable e-cigarettes released more than 20 packs of traditional cigarettes during one-day use.
The main author of the study, doctoral candidate Mark Salazar, said the levels were so high ‘thought that our instrument was broken’.
Scientists analyzed the metals in seven types of disposable devices from Elf Bar, Flum Pebble and Esco, the three most popular brands.
Using a tool to activate disposable e-cigarettes and heat the inner fluid, they form 500 to 1,500 puff for each device. They found:
After using a device to simulate the equivalent of usage up to a week, the team found heavy metals, nickel, lead and antimony.
The metals are used to make the heating coils of the devices that convert the liquid in the e-cigarettes into vapor. The metals then infiltrate the fluid from the ferries.
A new study from the University of California – Davis found that Vaping could publish chemicals that cause more cancer than 20 cigarettes (stock image)
The above graph shows the levels of nickel, antimony and lead in the tested vapors. The green dot line shows the risk level of cancer for lead. The purple -dotted line shows this risk level for antimony and the red -dotted line represents the risk value for non -cancer diseases
The steam from three of the tested devices contained lead and nickel levels above the cancer safety limits and two had a high level of antimony – an element used in batteries and as flame retardant.
Especially in the first 200 puffs of the Esco sticks, it was found to release four to 13 times more bullets. This is the same amount of lead to 19 smoking in one day.
The four devices sold by ESCO had nickel due to respiratory and lung diseases such as lead levels and asthma and lung scarf.
Researchers, while testing only three of the 100 popular Vape brands, shows that findings are about health risks for young people and young adults that are likely to use them.
The three heavy metal tested are considered potential carcinogens, ie they can cause cancer. And all of them are associated with lung cancer, lead lung, kidney and brain cancer have been shown to increase the risk of cancer.
Nickel is also associated with nose and sinus cancers.
Although Vapes is higher than cigarettes in these heavy metals, decades of research shows that cigarettes are still more dangerous, because this contains about 7,000 carcinogens compared to 2,000.
Cigarettes have also proven to have caused lung cancer for a long time, but research has not yet proved direct causality between vaping and disease.
Brett Poulin, who is a senior working writer and assistant professor at the Department of Environmental toxicology at UC Davis, said, “Our study emphasizes the hidden risk of these new and popular disposable electronic cigarettes – at a dangerous neurotoxic lead and at the level of carcinogenic nickel and antimony – emphasizing the urgency in the application.
‘These risks are not only worse than other e-cigarettes, but in some cases worse than traditional cigarettes.’
The work published on Wednesday ACS Central ScienceAnalyzed metal and metalloids – elements with intermediate properties between metals and non -metal.
Using a device to heat and activate e-cigarettes, it allows each to produce 500 to 1,500 PUF.
The average Vape user makes about 100 to 200 puffs per day.
ELF Bar (depicted here), also sold as EB Design, was the most popular disposable Vape of 2023 and 2024
The team found vapors from three devices – the ELF bar flavored, the ELF bar clear and the Esco stick flavored – exceeded the risk limits of cancer for nickel.
Meanwhile, Flum has exceeded these levels for Flum Pebble flavored and Esco bar flavored antimony.
And Esco Bar Flavored and Esco Bar Clear had lead emissions This has exceeded health risk thresholds for ‘non -cancer disorders’.
These include asthma and lung scarf fibrosis.
Mark Salazar, the first working writer and doctoral candidate in Poulin’s laboratory, said, ‘We found that these disposable devices are already available in e-Sivor, or that they have leaked comprehensively from their components to e-SIV and finally transferred to smoke.
The above graph shows the heavy metals of different parts of the uniform vaps tested.
The CDC described ELF as the most popular ferry brand among young people and young adults in 2023 and 2024, and Esco bars sold approximately $ 82 million in the US in 2022, the latest data available.
Although the FDA allowed a limited number of flavors, no flavored e-cigarette in the US is legal for sales.
However, both types are common in markets and through online retailers.
Sales data Reported by Reuters Last year, an estimated illegal vaues of $ 2.4 billion in the United States were sold in the US, which is particularly interested because experts are not regulated or tested by any supervisory agency, so unclear what happened in it.
According to the latest CDC data, about 17 million – Vape is about 17 million of US adults.
And about six percent of secondary school students and eight percent of high school students are at least once in the last 30 days.
Although it is generally accepted as a safer alternative to cigarette tobacco and is encouraged as smoking cessation aid, recent research shows that e-cigarettes can increase the risk of heart and lung damage.
In a case study published this month, the New Jersey man died of the first documented lung cancer caused by e-cigarettes.
