Vapers Digest 1st June

Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of organic compounds and heavy metals in electronic cigarettes~ Cancer and non-cancer risk analysis of vaping. Part II ~ The Treaty That Lost Its Way: Why the FCTC Needs Reform, Not Reverence ~ What’s wrong with WHO? Ten fundamentals on tobacco and nicotine ~ Why Are We No Longer Focusing on Smoking? ~ This World Vape Day, Governments Must Promote Harm Reduction ~ World Vape Day – A Day of Mixed Emotions ~ I want My Pouches : World No Tobacco Day – If the Government Truly Wants to Eliminate Cigarettes, It Must Make Nicotine Pouches Accessible ~ World Vape Day 2026: The Tools That Beat Smoking Are Under Attack in Europe ~ The WHO hates how Sweden is saving lives ~ No Child Should Be Threatened With Gunfire Over a Vape ~ Five Points Between Two Days ~ Reach Out, Don’t Shun: What World No Tobacco Day Used to Mean ~ Smokers three times more likely to quit with nicotine vapes, trial finds ~ On World No Tobacco Day, Who Speaks for the Smoker? ~ PAPAIOANNOY: Safer nicotine products are not going away — Canada needs to face reality ~ Endit Foundation unveils Pakistan’s largest-ever vaping survey ~ South African smokers and their families deserve better ~ The case for vapes ~ Vaping has prevented up to 100 billion cigarettes being smoked in Britain, claims We Vape ~ A tobacco-free world is possible if we let smokers escape ~ Brussels promised to listen to consumers. Now it must prove it ~ Corruption Clouds the Administration’s Vaping Deregulation Push ~ Is the FDA’s War on Vaping Coming to an End? ~ REEM IBRAHIM ON FREEDOM, MORAL PANIC & PROHIBITION

Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risk assessment

of organic compounds and heavy metals in electronic cigarettes

Cancer and non-cancer risk analysis of vaping. Part II

Roberto Sussman

Part I showed the main methodological flaws of the risk analysis of this article

• Zhao, S., Zhang, X., Wang, J. et al. Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of organic compounds and heavy metals in electronic cigarettes. Sci Rep 13, 16046 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43112-y

The authors chose as target chemicals for the analysis 4 aldehydes (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein, acetone) and 7 metals (As,Cd,Mn,Cu,Cr, Ni, Pb). As mentioned in Part I, they concluded that cancer risks (CRs) for inhalation of nickel and chrome and non-cancer risks (Health Quotient HQ) for acrolein were very high, 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than comparative safety thresholds (CR = 10^(-5) and HQ = 1). The authors also concluded that, in particular, inhalation of acrolein should cause serious harm.

The Treaty That Lost Its Way: Why the FCTC Needs Reform, Not Reverence