E-Cigarettes May Deliver Doses of Formaldehyde

The more information that comes out from folks who’ve studied e-cigarettes, the less they appear to be the silver bullet their proponents would you like you to believe they are. A recent study in New England Journal of Medicine suggests there may be something else to worry about when considering e-cigs: formaldehyde.  You know formaldehyde… that stuff that had baby pigs and frogs floating in it back in science class. The substance the US National Toxicology Program describes as “known to be a human carcinogen“.  Yeah… that stuff.

According to the study, “Under certain conditions, taking 10 puffs from an e-cigarette would expose a user to about 2.5 times as much formaldehyde as he or she would get from smoking a single tobacco cigarette, according to the study.”

The World Health Organization says formaldehyde can cause leukemia and nasopharyngeal cancer.

Researchers calculated lifetime cancer risk incurred by inhaling formaldehyde would be 5 to 15 times higher for long-term e-cigarette users than for long-term tobacco users.

But these things are safe… right?

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2015/01/24/e-cigarettes-can-deliver-big-dose-of-formaldehyde.html