Funded by BAT as well.

Considering who funded it this has surprised me. Good news though.
New Study: Electronic Cigarettes Vapor Has NO Toxic Effect | Vapeform

 

Formaldehyde exposure results from the above study
Formaldehyde exposure from 3 e-cigarette formats tested well below WHO quality guidelines | EurekAlert! Science News

 

I hope the media report this research finding but I think generally they will ignore it because its more 'sensational' to report another exploding e-cig or some nutter saying that vaping is worse than smoking

 

Yeah probably right but there is more and more positive comng out of England all the Time. Bristol Council are actively going out and promoting vaping in the streets.

 

Good reports to read. Some honest researchers will soon be looking elsewhere for their grant money though.

 

For most chemicals used to compose flavours an average chemistry student can brake down the chemical formula and predict what stuff a given substance will break down to or re-act to. For natural stuff that often contain many different components that's more difficult.

Companies such as Givaudan, Firmenich, Symrise, Iff and Tagasako, to name the top 5 companies, could mostly say quite easily what it is like to vape this or that, and as well make flavours that are pretty safe.

Therefore it seems not applicable saying "we don't know the long term effects of vaping". And why these things should be harmful to human cells is beyond me anyway. We ARE actually breezing in all these things since about 1860 when Symrise made the first artifical vanilla.

 

It was an interesting read. FYI, British American Tobacco (BAT) bought the patent rights to the electronic cigarette from Hon Lik, then they proceeded to sue the shit out of other manufacturers of electronic cigarettes. While I think a finding of no harmful substance in vapor is good, I dunno if BAT is really a "disinterested" party either.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/03/e-cigarette-patent-wars

 

Didn't know that so a good point. But at least there is more positive information coming out and that was my point I guess.

 

^^ It was a good read. And having re-read my own article that I linked, I think I made a mistake. I guess it was Imperial tobacco of Britain that bought the patent rights. I thought Imperial was a subsidiary of BAT but rereading it, I am probably wrong because BAT was mentioned in the article.

 

Good concise article, apparently pro vaping. It's last sentence should have read, "Not exactly a win for anyone involved, except the lawyers". No wonder Americans hate them so much.
Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Imperial Tobacco, not BAT. All as bad as each other.