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  • 2017-05-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Do E-Cigarettes Really Contain Ten Times the Carcinogens of Tobacco Cigarettes? (en)
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  • In late April 2017, click bait site MeltMyHearth.com published a report purporting to show that a new Japanese study determined that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, contain an astonishing ten times the carcinogens of their tobacco counterparts: The claims are far from new. Identical claims about a Japanese study appeared on social media, circulating cyclically, as early as November 2014: Distilled to the soundbite attributing ten times the carcinogens to e-cigs, the claim is difficult to quantify. Between November 2014 and April 2017, it had filtered through multiple sites and sources, obscuring the source material (and developing attributes such as after intense studies). The published research from Japan concluded that the levels of formaldehyde in vapors from high-voltage devices are almost identical to those in traditional cigarette smoke based on the limited scope of the study: A November 2014 article in The Guardian summarized the claims: Based on that information, not only did the research include only electronic cigarettes purchased and sold in Japan, but just one device included in the research appears to have produced ten times more formaldehyde in particular (not carcinogens in general) than regular cigarettes. The initial claim did not encompass all carcinogens in cigarettes or e-cigarettes, and it did not involve more than one single product sold in Japan. In February 2017, the UK's National Health Service cited a study suggesting the use of electronic cigarettes is far safer than smoking. (en)
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