A groundbreaking report juts arrived, confirming e-cigarettes are likely to trigger a cancer growth within the human body. This is all due to a toxic chemical which is often enhanced in fruit-flavored e-cigarettes.
As a result, plenty of teenagers are facing serious health threat across the globe. The massive conclusion was reported by the University of California, San Francisco, which conducted a thorough research on the matter.
"The presence of harmful ingredients in e-cigarette vapor has been established"; we can now say that these chemicals are found in the body of human adolescents who use these products," they wrote in their report, published in the journal Pediatrics.
E-cigarettes are supposed to replace the standard and dangerous cigarette, but is looks as though they are doing more harm than good. Quit Teenagers are particularly vulnerable to this occurrence.
In an effort to reduce smoking, many people of all ages have turned to e-cigarettes for help, but as it turn out, this could be an even graver danger than tobacco itself.
What is even worse is that the chemical in question is not even listed on the labels of e-cigarettes, leaving people not knowing the danger they are getting themselves into.
Dr. Mark Rubinstein, of UCSF's Division of Adolescent Medicine, carried out a test on 67 teenagers who use vaporizers and then used another group of 16 teenagers which both smoked and used vaporizers.
Finally, they included a third group of 20 teens who do never smoked nor used a vaporizer. They tested their urine and saliva and asked questions about cigarette use.
Most chemicals were found in the group that smoked both cigarettes and vaporizers, and even substances like acrylonitrile, acrolein, propylene oxide, acrylamide and crotonaldehyde were found in their systems.
The second most endangered group was the one smoking only e-cigarettes, and finally the healthiest one was the group that smoked neither.
"Among our e-cigarette"“only participants, the use of fruit-flavored products produced significantly higher levels of the metabolites of acrylonitrile," they wrote.
"Acrylonitrile is a highly poisonous compound used widely in the manufacture of plastics, adhesives and synthetic rubber," say from the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Acrolein "is toxic to humans following inhalation, oral or dermal exposure," explained the Environmental Protection Agency.
Out of those which can cause cancer, propylene oxide and crotonaldeyde are the most dangerous. Then, we have diacetyl, which damages the lungs and causes severe health consequences.
"Teenagers need to be warned that the vapor produced by e-cigarettes is not harmless water vapor, but actually contains some of the same toxic chemicals found in smoke from traditional cigarettes," Rubinstein said in a statement.
"Teenagers should be inhaling air, not products with toxins in them."
Source: www.nbcnews.com
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