What is it about?
The population of electronic cigarette (EC) users has been rising worldwide despite of the safety and health issues related to the products. Not much studies has been done recruiting human volunteers and the outcomes were hard to compared as no standard protocol has been published. This paper compared selected studies that has been carried out looking into EC effects on indoor air quality using human volunteers.
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Why is it important?
In study looking into the impact of EC towards indoor air quality, using human volunteers has been shown to give a more representative data compared to studies using smoking machine or chamber as it account individual retention for certain contaminants. However, the variety of levels used and protocol in experiments conducted using human samples has made the studies hard t be compared among each other; leaving uncertainties of the health risks or exposures measured.
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This paper highlighted on the importance of having standard protocol in conducting e-cigarette related studies using human volunteers. I hope this article bring forth the main issue of the importance of standard protocol as more and more research related to this field will be published in the near future. Problems related to e-cigarette usage has been well-known (rising population of users, possible health risks, re-normalization of smoking, young and new non-nicotine addicts) but portraying it in a way that readers understand that it is a big and crucial issue thus fast actions need to be done is far more important. I hope this article is able to deliver this massage.
Najihah Zainol Abidin
Universiti Putra Malaysia
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This page is a summary of: Electronic cigarettes and indoor air quality: a review of studies using human volunteers, Reviews on Environmental Health, September 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2016-0059.
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