Detecting the user's urine to determine the safety of Vape
The urination of smokers smoking Vape contains more heavy metals and signs of exposure to carcinogens and other irritating chemicals, suggesting that this habit may pose a serious health risk. New research shows that at the same time, the levels of these substances in the urine of smokers who switch from cigarettes to Vape are still lower than those of smokers.
The study, published today in the JAMA Network Open Journal, does not directly measure the risk of exposure, but these findings may contribute to ongoing debates about whether Vape is safer than cigarettes.
Promoting yourself to be healthier is a major selling point in the Vape industry, where merchants sell Vape as a lower risk alternative. The problem is that they are still largely unregulated, so we are not sure what chemicals they contain or the long-term health effects of these chemicals.
According to the CDC, in a recent study, about 6.7% of adults reported using Vape in the past 30 days, while 3.6 million high school and high school students in the United States were using Vape. Researchers led by tobacco researcher Maciej Goniewicz of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed questionnaires and urine samples submitted by more than 5,100 people between 2013 and 2014 in an attempt to discover the chemical composition of their urine.
Today's paper is based on a large-scale long-term tobacco and health population assessment (PATH) study that looks at tobacco and Vape use across the United States. The researchers found that most of the Vape users in the study were former smokers, and the two people who used them, the so-called dual users, smoked roughly the same amount of cigarettes as traditional cigarette smokers, but slightly less.
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention searched the urinary samples for 50 biomarkers known to appear on tobacco users, including compounds produced by the body's breakdown of nicotine. Focus on identifying heavy metals and carcinogen markers that may increase the risk of cancer. They also tested for signs of heart disease and irritating airways. The researchers compared smokers, electronic smokers, and toxic substances in the urine of both smokers and non-smokers.
Unsurprisingly, those who did not smoke and did not use Vape showed the lowest levels of toxic chemicals in their urine. The smoke of the smoker recorded a lead content of about 19% higher, a heavy metal cadmium content of 23% higher, a strontium content of 20% (a carcinogen biomarker associated with heart disease), and a urinary acrylonitrile content of 66%. . Inhalation of these harmful substances may cause respiratory damage, cancer, impaired fertility or affect unborn children.
Vape performed better, but not all, compared to smokers. In addition to cadmium, Vape has a heavy metal content similar to that of smokers. Of course, many Vape people are former smokers, and because heavy metals accumulate in the body for a long time, these metals may be just the remainder of smoking. Vape smokers' urination also showed similar three volatile organic compounds: toluene, benzene and carbon disulfide.
Surprisingly, Vape users are only able to get less exposure to harmful substances when they focus on Vape, while people who use Vape and cigarettes do not reduce the risk at all. In fact, these dual users show higher levels of nicotine and many toxic substances, including two heavy metals and some carcinogens.
According to a 2016 report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this is worrying because more than half of Vape users are users who smoke two cigarettes at the same time. “What’s shocking is that we’ve seen a significant increase in the level of almost all biomarkers they measure,” St. Helen said.
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