The first sign of a reaction is often a throat irritation, cough or sore throat, and that’s the time to switch to a non-flavoured e-cigarette, say researchers from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
They measured benzaldehyde levels in 145 flavoured e-cigarettes, and found it in 108 of those tested. The highest concentrations were in the cherry-flavoured cigarettes, which typically had levels that were 43 times higher than in other flavours.
Health workers should be aware not just of patients smoking electronic cigarettes, but of the type they smoke and the flavours they’re using.
The researchers say they were looking for just one toxicant in the study, and so research is still on-going into the potential health hazards of vaping, or smoking electronic cigarettes. Nonetheless, the results are still likely to show that vaping is not as hazardous as smoking tobacco, they say.
(Source: Thorax, 2016; thoraxjnl-2015-207895)
What do you think? Start a conversation over on the... WDDTY Community
