Electric cigarettes contain many toxic and carcinogenic substances such as heavy metals, glycol, and nitrosamines. The vapor from e-cigarettes can cause pneumonia, seizures, burns, and other health issues. Studies have found the vapor from e-cigarettes can damage lung cells and trigger lung inflammation and cancer due to heavy metals and substances like formaldehyde. Recent research in Japan found e-cigarette vapor contains higher levels of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, both carcinogens, than traditional cigarette smoke. E-cigarettes pose unknown health risks and may be more dangerous than regular cigarettes.

1. By:
o Moh. Sahlani
o Nur Mukrimah
o Sandi Bachtiar
o Santi Yulianti
o Wenny Alfiyani
o Widiya Nengsih

3. Electric cigarette is one of nicotine
replacement therapy that uses electricity
from battery power that vaporizes liquid
nicotine. This modern type of cigarette is
designed to provide nicotine and keep
giving the sensation of smoking to the
users, without the burning of tobacco.
Even though, this electronic cigarette
certainly has a danger to health

4. WHO (World Health Organization) says
that e-cigarette contains many noxious
substance that can be poisonous to the
smokers. The substances of it are heavy
metals, cromonium and nickel, tin and
zinc, dietilen glycol and nitrosamiin. The
smoke is also highly dangerous because
of an aerosol that can be very bad for the
lungs.

5. There is a report from a consumer in many
places that had ever treated in hospital
due to an incident or impairment of health
after using e-cigarette. It becomes an
evidence of dangerous electric cigarettes.
The case includes pneumonia, heart
failure, disoriented, a seizure, hypotension,
burns as result of the explosion of e-
cigarette in their mouth, etc.

6. This tool is new ways of putting nicotine
into the body that causes bad effect in the
body. The effects of nicotine are increasing
epinephrine, blood pressure, and also
causing addiction.

7.  Electric cigarette publicly states as a safe cigarette
for health, has become a threat. A recent study
reveales, electric cigarette vapour can damage
cells of the lungs and create free radicals that is
dangerous. The warning of electric cigarette
factory says that consumers who have respiratory
disease are not allowed to use electric cigarette
again if the effects appear. The vapour that is
produced by electric cigarette can cause an
asthma attack, shortness of breath, and cough.
This shows that this product is really dangerous,
especially to the respiratory system.

8.  The Times of India released that vapour from the
electric cigarette can also trigger inflammation of
the lung tissue. It is caused by the vapour
produced by an electric cigarette that contains
heavy metal and can cause cancer. Very small
nanoparticle size can reach far into the lung tissue,
the system cells, and the flow of blood. The New
England Journal of medicine recently published
that electric cigarette release formaldehyde, the
substance that can cause carcinogen cancer when
it is heated by the battery that set on high voltage

9. A few months ago, there is information that
says the electric cigarette considered safer
than regular cigarettes. But, the latest
findings from the health experts in Japan
found that the content of formaldehyde and
acetaldehyde in the vapour produced by
several liquids of electric cigarette are
more dangerous than regular cigarettes.

10. A research by the Ministry of Health in
Japan found carcinogens in the steam
exhaled after sucking the e-cigarette. For
example, the content of formaldehyde, a
substance commonly found in building
materials and embalming fluid, is in the
higher level of carcinogens than in ordinary
cigarette smoke. Acetaldehyde also found
at a higher rate than tobacco cigarettes.

11. Electric smokers do not realize how much
nicotine contained in the artificial cigarette.
Electric cigarette consumers currently
have no way to know whether the electric
cigarette is safe or not. However, the
experts say that if the electric cigarette is
suddenly damaged, then someone can be
exposed to harmful components.