E-Cigs Contain Untested Chemicals

Lets ask ourselves a rhetorical question. Why don’t we head out to the garage, pop the hood on our car and syphon out a nice, cool cup of antifreeze to sip on a warm summer day?

There’s no shortage of information available to smokers regarding the harmful and potentially deadly chemicals contained in cigarettes. We can attribute the E-cigarette’s recent climb in popularity to that abundance of health information and wide spread awareness of risks but despite the fewer chemicals used in an E-cig, newer studies are finding that while E-cigs do contain fewer chemicals than a traditional cigarette, scientists aren’t using the word ‘safe’ to describe their use.

 

In a recent news report on KCTV5 in Kansas City, Dr. Michael Liston (a cardiologist at Saint Mary’s Medical Center) explained that E-cigs contain many chemicals that have yet to be fully studied and tested. As a result, it’s not known what effects these chemicals can have on the human body once consumed. Of the many, yet-to-be-studied chemicals, E-cigs contain ethylene glycol, which is a component of antifreeze. Going back to that rhetorical question at the beginning of this article, we don’t drink antifreeze because it would kill us and would do so pretty efficiently. So, how safe could it possibly be to inhale its components?

 

Dr. Liston went on to urge those attempting to quit smoking to stick with scientifically and medically tested and approved approaches. These include patches, gums and doctor-prescribed inhalers among others.

 

The thing potential quitters need to never lose sight of is the fact that smokeless alternatives are, on the whole, produced by the same big tobacco companies that got them hooked on harmful products in the first place. So, if health isn’t a motivation for tobacco companies, then what i$?