Acetaldehyde

• If you asked me what’s in e-cigarettes, disposable vapes or e-liquids, my short answer would be “we don’t fully know”.
• E-cigarettes’ risk to health varies depending on many factors including which device or flavours are used, and how people use them.
• So vapers just don’t know what they’re inhaling and cannot be certain of the health impacts.

What do we know?

• Ingredients include nicotine, flavouring chemicals, and the liquids that carry them – primarily propylene glycol and glycerine.
• Concerningly, we also find volatile organic compounds, particulate matter and carcinogens (agents that can cause cancer), many of which we know are harmful.
• Our previous research also found 2-chlorophenol in about half of e-liquids users buy to top-up re-fillable e-cigarettes.

How about polonium?

• That’s because tobacco plants absorb it and other radioactive materials from the soil, air and high-phosphate fertiliser.
• Although it is feasible if the glycerine in e-liquids comes from plants and similar fertilisers are used to grow them.

It’s not just the ingredients

• Aside from their ingredients, the materials e-cigarette devices are made from can end up in our bodies.
• Toxic metals and related substances such as arsenic, lead, chromium and nickel can be detected in both e-liquids and vapers’ urine, saliva and blood.

That’s not all

The process of heating e-liquids to create an inhalable aerosol also changes their chemical make-up to produce degradation products. These include:
• However due to different devices and how the samples are collected, the levels measured vary widely between studies.
• Often, the levels are very low, leading to proponents of vaping arguing e-cigarettes are far safer than tobacco smoking.
• People who buy tobacco cigarettes are also confronted with a plethora of warnings about the hazards of smoking, while vapers generally are not.

How about labelling?

• Even if labels are present, they don’t always reflect what’s in the product.
• Nicotine concentration of e-liquids is often quite different to what is on the label, and “nicotine-free” e-liquids often contain nicotine.
• However mixing them into e-liquids, heating and inhaling them is a very different type of exposure, compared to eating them.
• The list is so short because we don’t have enough information on the health effects if inhaled of other flavouring chemicals, and their interactions with other e-liquid ingredients.

Where to next?

For us to better assess the health risks of vapes, we need to learn more about:
Finally, we need to know more about how people use e-cigarettes so we can better understand and quantify the health risks in the real world.

• The "China Ethanol Derivatives Market Analysis: Plant Capacity, Production, Operating Efficiency, Demand & Supply, End-user Industries, Sales Channel, Regional Demand, 2015-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
• The two main compounds that fall into the category of ethanol derivatives are ethyl acetate and acetaldehyde.
• Based on the End-user industry, the China Ethanol Derivatives market is segregated into Paints, Coating & Adhesives, Personal Care and Cosmetics, Pharmaceutical, and Others.
• Although, the Paints, Coating & Adhesive industry is dominating the Ethanol Derivatives market in China and consumed approximately 50% of the market in the year 2022.

• The high water content was made possible through a specialised formulation process developed by Aquios Labs and a new hardware design developed by Innokin.
• Research and development took more than 2 years, and the resulting technology is a unique offering in the vaping market.
• The initial line-up of water-based vaping products was launched in all major markets in the first quarter of 2022, including Aquios Bar and Esco bar 6000.
• With water-based vaping technology on track to gain a significant share of the market in 2023, Innokin and Aquios Labs aim to launch the products in more markets over the coming year.

• LONDON, Nov. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vaping Industry Forum and Awards Dinner, organised by the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA), is a significant date in the vaping industry's calendar.
• Now, Innokin and Aquios Labs have added another water-based vape to their portfolio with the INNOBAR C1, unveiled to harm reduction and industry experts at the UKVIA Forum.
• Water-based vaping technology is now set to gain momentum in the global vaping industry, as major brands and harm reduction experts seek to find new ways to improve the efficacy of vaping products.
• Innokin and Aquios Labs have already launched several disposable vaping devices with water-based vaping technology, alongside their latest pre-filled pod device, the INNOBAR C1.