Sponsor
NIH and FDA supported this work via award R01ES025257. In particular, the work reported in this publication was supported by NIEHS and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) (https://www.nih.gov/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Published In
PLoS ONE
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2017
Subjects
Electronic cigarettes -- Composition -- Analysis, Benzene, Commercial products -- Testing, Toxological chemistry, Tobacco products -- Additives, Tobacco products -- Chemistry, Electronic cigarettes, Cancer -- Environmental aspects
Abstract
The heating of the fluids used in electronic cigarettes (“e-cigarettes”) used to create “vaping” aerosols is capable of causing a wide range of degradation reaction products. We investigated formation of benzene (an important human carcinogen) from e-cigarette fluids containing propylene glycol (PG), glycerol (GL), benzoic acid, the flavor chemical benzaldehyde, and nicotine.
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0173055
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19459
Citation Details
Pankow JF, Kim K, McWhirter KJ, Luo W, Escobedo JO, Strongin RM, et al. (2017) Benzene formation in electronic cigarettes. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173055. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173055
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Copyright: © 2017 Pankow et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.