Prof. Robert West, Dir. of Tobacco Research at University
College London - E-cigarettes 'pose no health risk'
News From BBC 9/5/2014
New E-Cig Study Hypes Formaldehyde Fears Based on Faulty
Experiments 1/21/2015 News from
Study also finds that vapor products, when used under
realistic conditions, produce no detectable levels of formaldehyde.
WASHINGTON,
D.C. - Today, the American Vaping Association, a leading advocate for the
benefits of vapor products such as electronic cigarettes, joined with the
anti-smoking organization Smokefree Pennsylvania, to react to the release of a
new letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine*. The letter
reports the results from a study that purports to show that while vapor
products used at a low voltage (3.3 volts**) produce no detectable levels of
formaldehyde, using the same device at a higher voltage (5.0 volts) produces
formaldehyde in amounts larger than are found in cigarette smoke. However, as
revealed below, the truth behind the study is that the high levels of
formaldehyde were only found because the authors used extremely inappropriate
testing methods.
Bill Godshall, longtime anti-smoking
activist and the Executive Director of Smokefree Pennsylvania, issued the
following statement:
"Just as cigarette smoking machines were wrong
about "low tar" cigarettes decades ago because they didn't resemble human
smoking, this study's findings are wrong because their vaping machine
experiment didn't resemble human vaping.
By setting their machine to repeatedly take
three-to-four second puffs at 5.0 volts, the researchers overheated the
vaporizer. Vapers call this the "dry puff phenomenon," and don't do it
due to the very harsh and awful taste. By making a false assumption and by
multiplying that false assumption over and over, the researchers got it all
wrong. There is no scientific evidence that e-cigs increase risks for cancer or
any other disease.
The authors should publish a letter in the
journal clarifying that their study tested vapor products under unrealistic
conditions that went against published
research study protocols. This study is going to cause real harm to public
health, as many smokers will read this study and incorrectly decide that
continuing to inhale burning smoke into their lungs may be safer than vaping.
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