US study finds that peppermint flavor vape exceeds carcinogens

US researchers have found that the vape of menthol flavor and menthol flavor and the potential carcinogen pulmonone in smokeless cigarette products have exceeded standards, which has added a new health risk to vape.

Valerian is an extract component of mint plants. Oral administration may cause liver cancer, lung tissue deformation, and neoplasms in mice. Valerone is listed by the World Health Organization as a possible carcinogen, a class 2B carcinogen. The US Food and Drug Administration last year banned menthol as a food additive.

Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine tested six e-liquid and smokeless cigarettes containing menthol. It was found that the exposure limit of menthol in electronic e-liquid was between 325 and 6012, and that smokeless cigarettes were between 549 and 1646, all of which were carcinogenic.

The US Drug Administration requires that the "exposure limit" for carcinogens (that is, the maximum non-carcinogenic use divided by the expected daily use) must not be less than 10,000. The lower the value, the greater the health risk.

The research team published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association · Internal Medicine Volume that said that menthol exposed to the aforementioned flavor vape was about 86 to 1600 times more flammable than the flavor of cigarettes. Panais Galiasatos, director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, called the findings "highly worrying."

The US Department of Health and Human Services announced on the 11th this month that it will introduce regulations in the next few weeks to ban the sale of non-tobacco flavor vape products to control the trend of vape smoking among young people. The U.S. Department of Health has repeatedly suggested the possible health risks of vape, and is currently investigating more than 450 cases of severe lung disease related to the use of vape. Earlier last month, the US Drug Administration said it had received 127 cases of seizures following the use of vape and was investigating whether vape was the direct cause.

The vape is mainly composed of a battery, a heating evaporation device and a smoke tube equipped with e-liquid. The e-liquid containing nicotine can be converted into vapor for inhalation by atomization. The WHO has published reports that there is insufficient evidence that vape helps to quit smoking, and that smokers can only benefit the most if they completely quit nicotine..

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