New Study: No Evidence E-Cigs Cause Cell Damage or Death

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New Study No Evidence E-Cigs Cause Cell Damage
or Death

• A new study in the medical journalInhalation
  Toxicology has found that 20 out of 21 electronic
  cigarette brands showed no signs of cytotoxicity
  (that is, toxicity that causes cell damage or
  death).  The study makes yet another compelling
  argument that electronic cigarettes do not cause
  an amount of harm necessitating harsh regulations
  and bans.

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The study came from Italian and Greek researchers
and was led by Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos who
has been researching electronic cigarettes since
2008 and finding promising results.   You
can find the abstract here.   The study found
that only in one coffee-flavored electronic
cigarette brand did any evidence of cell damage
or death appear and only at the highest dilution
tested.  All other brands and all lower dilutions
of the coffee-flavored brand showed no evidence
of cytotoxicity.  In the one instance that
cytotoxicity was found, it was two orders of
magnitude lower than that of cigarette
smoke.   This raises two strong points for the
electronic cigarette world.  First, the damage
electronic cigarettes do to the user may actually
be even lower than researchers and experts had
previously thought.  Having previously rated
electronic cigarettes between 1 and 5 as
dangerous as conventional cigarettes, that may
need to be revised to something closer to .1.
 But well let the real experts decide on
that.   Second, the researchers behind the study
theorize that the reason cytotoxicity was only
found in the one coffee-flavored brand was likely
flavor additive related.  
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It seems likely that something in the flavor
ingredients had more to do with cytotoxicity than
any of the other ingredients since those
ingredients existed in 20 other brands and none
showed signs of cell death or damage. This
certainly means that ingredients quality control
and testing needs to occur in the world of
electronic cigarettes.  While this isnt
something anybody argued against, it highlights
the issue more than ever before.  Ingredient
choice if it is indeed the culprit can
determine whether an e-cig exhibits no
cytotoxicity or some cytotoxicity.   Article
Resource http//fivepawns.com/blog/Five-Pawns-New
-Study/