Health Risks of E CigarettesQuick info on Electronic cigarettes for people who arent farmiliar with these devices. They are generally a device with three parts: the battery, the atomizer, and the cartridge. They give the "smoker" a dose of nicotine, which can be any amount ranging from 6mg/ml to 34mg/ml, with each inhale in the form of water vapor.
Summary 1
One side of the argument says that E cigarettes are not safe and they need to be researched more. The Food and Drug Administration is one of the biggest groups who say the devices are not safe. They say that some tobacco-specific nitrosamines which are known cancer-causing agents were found in all of the cartridges of one brand and two of the cartridges of another. The FDA also said the levels of nicotine in some of the devices were not exactly as advertised. Furthermore they say that the devices are marketed to young people and lack appropriate health warnings. The FDA found that cartridges marked as no nicotine actually did have some of the addictive substance, that the devices emitted some human carcinogens, and that there were some tobacco-specific impurities suspected of being harmful to humans.
Summary 2
The other side of the argument obviously sees Electronic Cigarettes as a good alternative to smoking regular tobacco cigarettes. The Electronic Cigarette Association says that the FDA testing was not broad enough research and cannot reach any valid or reliable conclusions. Another proponent of the devices, the American Association of Public Health Physicians, supports the sale of E cigarettes to adults. they say that the possibility exists to save the lives of four million of the eight million current adult American smokers who will die of a tobacco-related illness over the next twenty years. The AAPHP is against the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors though. Some users have noted how many of the tobacco related feelings and negative results of smoking went away after switching to E cigarettes.
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