Potentially Harmful Chemicals Found in E-Cigarettes

Potentially Harmful Chemicals Found in E-Cigarettes
OCTOBER 26, 2015

New research has found that many e-cigarettes and e-liquids contain hundreds if not thousands of chemicals which are potentially harmful to vapers. Here's a short list of some of those chemicals and how they can potentially cause harm:

• Most e-liquids are made with a base of propylene glycol or vegetable glycerine (or most commonly, a combination of the two), and if an e-cigarette user is fully submerged in a tank full of these liquids for long enough, they will most certainly drown.

• Many e-liquids also contain food flavorings that contain chemicals which can be heated to extremely high temperatures and continuously poured onto the user's head, causing severe and possibly life-threatening burns

• E-cigarette tanks are often made of plastics or glass which can potentially be broken into sharp shards and used to severely lacerate people who vape.

• E-cigarettes also contain nicotine, which can be potentially harmful if quantities 100 times greater than a typical recreational dose are injected directly into the user's eyeballs.

• The batteries in e-cigarettes often contain lithium, and isotopes of lithium can be used as solid fusion fuel for hydrogen bombs that could potentially cause great harm to any vapers in their blast radius.

• The metals used for heating elements in e-cigarettes could potentially be melted down and formed into aerodynamic cylinders with ogives and accelerated to speeds nearing 2500 feet per second, which could cause severe injuries or death to any users in their path.

• E-liquids also contain some water which can be used to grow castor oil plants and is probably used in the process of purifying ricin from them, which could be deadly if inhaled by an e-cigarette user.

• E-cigarette atomizers often use cotton wicks, and cotton can potentially be used to fashion rope which could be used to strangle vapers to death.

• Modern drip atomizers often contain stainless steel, which could potentially be melted down into pots and pans. Those pots and pans could then potentially be used to burn all of the e-cigarette user's food, causing him or her to suffer from severe malnutrition or even to starve to death.

These are just a few of the ways that chemicals in e-cigarettes can potentially be harmful. The possibilities are literally endless. Fortunately for people who have reduced harm to themselves by switching from smoking to vaping, these potential harms are not likely harms. Make sure you understand the difference when you're out there on the Internet reading garbage that attempts to conflate the two. It's also good practice to remember everything is chemicals, and that's neither bad nor good. It's just another fact.


Potentially Harmful Chemicals Found in E-Cigarettes

 

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