E-Cigarettes Can Churn Out High Levels of Formaldehyde
“To our surprise, we found masked formaldehyde in the liquid droplet particles in the aerosol,” Peyton says.
He calls it “masked” formaldehyde because it’s in a slightly different form than regular formaldehyde — a form that could increase the likelihood it would get deposited in the lung. And the researchers didn’t just find a little of the toxicant.
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“We found this form of formaldehyde at significantly higher concentrations than even regular cigarettes [contain] — between five[fold] and fifteenfold higher concentration of formaldehyde than in cigarettes,” Peyton says.
And formaldehyde is a known carcinogen.
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