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Researchers are finding strange new chemicals in vape flavours

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Vape liquids are producing some strange new chemicals

Vaping is helping a large number of smokers cut out the tobacco and maintain their nicotine addiction, with the promise that the new method of smoking so less harmful than those cigarettes. It’s a tricky claim, given that research on vaping is in its infancy, with studies on long-term effects still playing out. But in that time, researchers are finding some strange results – especially when it comes to chemicals that certain flavours are producing. Chemicals which are possibly just as harmful as the habit you’re trying to kick.

Researchers have been conducting tests on who certain flavours react with the most common ingredient in vape juices; the solvent known as propylene glycol. An investigation led by Sven-Eric Jordt, a professor of anesthesiology, pharmacology, and cancer biology at Duke University, has discovered new chemicals being produced during the mixing process, which aren’t labelled on the  bottles in circulation. These new chemicals mimic certain effects on receptors in the lungs, causing the same irritations that cigarettes do. And potentially harming them in the same way.

Curiously, Jordt notes that most vapers aren’t exhibiting claims of lung irritations that the chemicals should be inducing though. That has led him and his team to further test what long-term effects might be caused by the mixtures, specifically when it comes to flavours containing cinnamon, vanilla and cherry. Jordt warns that initial testing suggests that these mixtures could produce the same irritation in lungs over a long time, and still lead to asthmatic effects in later life. There’s still more research to be done, but this shows just how unknown everything about vaping really is.

What Jordt is advocating for though is more transparency. Vapers currently have very little information about what they’re inhaling, perhaps because the makers of liquids aren’t investigating for themselves what sorts of reactions the mixtures are producing. As anyone who vapes likely knows already, it’s not entirely without any risks. But just how far-reaching those risks may be is still being theorized, and we might not know for sure for some time.

Last Updated: October 19, 2018

10 Comments

  1. Came for the comments..found none…honestly I like my vape, but I do worry about the long term effects because it was meant to be a way to quit smoking and just became a new habit

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    • Dr Webster

      October 21, 2018 at 15:25

      Is it the same as smoking? Does it make you feel the same way?

      Reply

      • BradeLunner

        October 22, 2018 at 12:07

        Not at all, but it still fills the lungs and hits the craving

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    • Admiral Chief

      October 22, 2018 at 10:29

      Yeah, the habit is just another ‘addiction’ I suppose

      Reply

  2. Dr Webster

    October 21, 2018 at 15:24

    But how do we know that vaping doesnt cause cancer?

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  3. Gr8_Balls_o_Fire

    October 22, 2018 at 13:18

    I’ve tried vaping for a few months. While it definitely helps and you feel better, it’s no substitute for stopping smoking entirely.

    I’ve found that vaping DRASTICALLY increased the amount of air bubbles in my system, making me burp continuously throughout the day, which is very uncomfortable and could not have been good. Have since then stopped, and no more air bubbles.

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  4. Admiral Chief

    October 22, 2018 at 10:29

    We get it, you vape

    😛

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  5. Admiral Chief

    October 22, 2018 at 10:31

    Vapers are like Vegans, always talking about it

    Reply

  6. Gr8_Balls_o_Fire

    October 22, 2018 at 13:18

    I’ve tried vaping for a few months. While it definitely helps and you feel better, it’s no substitute for stopping smoking entirely.

    I’ve found that vaping DRASTICALLY increased the amount of air bubbles in my system, making me burp continuously throughout the day, which is very uncomfortable and could not have been good. Have since then stopped, and no more air bubbles.

    Reply

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