Is Dg & Pg Safe?

[Ricketts]

"The FDA, like all federal agencies, ultimately uses its regulatory powers in political ways. Certain industries and companies are rewarded, others are punished. No regulatory agency is immune from politics, which is why the FDA should not be trusted with power over our intimate health care decisions."

Where can you find Diethylene Glycol and Propylene Glycol?

You can find it in toothpaste, wine, dog food, mouthwash, cough syrup, fog-machines that pump the air full of the annoying stuff at concerts, and many of the pharmaceuticals that you ingest orally, get injected with, or apply to your skin cosmetically.

DG and PG are actually considered "Safe for human consumption" in certain quantities by the FDA in several consumable products. To put it into perspective: You would have to consume around 12,000 E-cigarette cartridges loaded with DG and PG within 24-hours in order to get yourself anywhere near the toxic levels of DG/PG. Your average E-cigarette user will puff down 1.5 cartridges per day, heavier puffers will inhale as many as 3.

The EMI (Environmental Medicine Inc.) did an independent study and their report concluded that the major components of electronic cigarettes including propylene glycol and glycerin posed no increased risk of adverse health effects usually associated with TBCs, namely Cancer, COPD and cardiovascular disease. Additionally, it was noted that nicotine per se is not carcinogenic, is currently approved by the FDA and is on the market for smoking cessation in various forms. In this regard, nicotine has shown no serious adverse effects on health as presently used. Comparisons delineating approximately 98 of the known hazardous tobacco smoke components revealed that none of these compounds were present in the aerosol generated from the specific electronic cigarettes analyzed. The additional data from genotoxicity studies support a conclusion that potential exposures to ethanol, methanol, and methylene chloride, if indeed they are present in the aerosol produced from electronic cigarette usage, is negligible and not likely to be carcinogenic in humans.

[BHam]

I read this in an article on the "E-cigarette News" section. I LOVE THESE TALKING POINTS! When I tell people that the chemicals in vapes are found in other consumable products, it usually raises their brows .

[seanben]

Yes they are safe to use..

[seaspine]

PG is also used in many inhaled respritory drugs