(But still refuse to issue clarification!)
According to industry consultant Katherine Devlin LACORS have wrongly stated that electronic cigarettes contain up to 20% nicotine.
While products can legally contain up to 7.5% nicotine, a product containing twenty percent nicotine would be likely to cause severe illness.
So why haven’t the thousands of UK smokers experienced this illness?
The answers lies in an elementary mistake.
“The cartidge in question was labelled at 18mg/ml and a non-mathematician could be forgiven for assuming that this would mean 18%, but it doesn’t,” said Katherine, a consultant to www.e-cigs.co.uk, before going on to explain about a discrepancy in the international weights and measurement system which is taught to children at GCSE level:
“The litre (1l) weighs 1000 grams (1,000g). Therefore, 1 millilitre (1ml = 1/1000th of a litre) weighs 1 gram (1g), not 1 milligram (1mg = 1/1000th of a gram.)”
As a result of this mis-reading, the quantity of nicotine in the electronic cigarette were miscalculated by a factor of 10, i.e. the offending device carried 2% nicotine, not 20% nicotine.
This confirms all other tests carried out by the world, including by Murray Laugeson in New Zealand and the FDA in America, which found that e-cigarettes actually carry less nicotine than cigarettes.
Despite explanations by the industry, LACORS has continued to failed to rectify this error. As with the FDA press release (which highlighted the existence of carcinogens without pointing out that they were at FDA approved levels) this incorrect evidence is being used by the MHRA as justification for their regulation of the device.
Thanks to Katherine from E-Cigs.co.uk for much of the information in this post.
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oh well, nicotine is the number cause of lung disease. this substance can really kill your lungs..;~
No, smoking is the number one cause of lung disease, with most of the harm caused by combustion.
From what I’ve read it looks like almost all of the harm comes from combustion. The irony seems to be that the carcinogens present in tobacco smoke aren’t what is actually causing cancer.
The primary evidence for this is that Swedish Snus contains between 2-3 times the level of Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines (TSNAs – the carcinogens found in e-cig juice) so should cause 2-3 times the amount of cancer. But they don’t. They are in fact 95-99% safer than smoking tobacco.
E-cigs should be safer than that again, but we will need to wait another 20-30 years before we can know for certain.
Thanks for the comment, Nolan. The consensus amongst most scientists we have spoken to (see our interviews here: http://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/interviews/electronic-cigarette-interviews.html) is that they are almost certainly a LOT safer than cigarettes.