The study details high levels of a chemical called pulegone, which in other studies has been found to cause cancerous changes in the livers and lungs of mice that ingested it.
The Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to ban all non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes and now a study from Duke University raises serious health concerns for people using mint and menthol flavored e-cigarette products: a potentially cancer-causing chemical in some of the e-cigarette liquids.
The data was originally collected in 2015 at a time when many vaping devices involved larger volume tank systems, refilled by users with separately purchased oil, rather than the more ubiquitous smaller volume pods we see today. Brands evaluated by the study included V2 -- a company later purchased by JUUL -- as well as Premium, South Beach Smoke and Skoal mint snuff.
As of now, the FDA has not regulated the chemical’s presence in e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, which have been promoted as safer alternatives to regular cigarettes. Earlier this year, researchers from the University of California at Riverside published an extensive chemical analysis of JUUL liquids, which found detectable levels of pulegone in “Cool Mint” and “Classic Menthol” flavors.
If mint and menthol are banned in these products, there are other menthol derivatives with cooling effects that may be used as substitutes, Jabba said, adding that these alternate additives haven’t been studied.
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