So there’s been a lot of talk lately both inside and out of the vaping community lately regarding the risks of second-hand vapor. This topic has been a major “selling point” for politicians and other uneducated members of public political bodies to push their “Vaping Bans” in major cities like New York and Philadelphia.

So here’s the truth, from a little known study conducted in September of 2012 by the Biological and Chemical Toxicology Research Laboratory in Verbania, Italy and the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, Greece. (Funny how almost every study we’ve found have all been conducted outside of the United States huh?)

Purpose of Study: To identify and quantify the chemicals released on a closed environment from the use of an electronic cigarette.

A 60 cubic meter(m3) / 165 square feet closed-room was used for the experiment. Two sessions were organized, each lasting 5 hours in length, with one session using 5 smokers and the other using 5 vapers. Between sessions, each room was cleaned and ventilated for 65 hours. Smokers used cigarettes containing 0.6 mg of nicotine while vapers used e-juice with an 11mg/ml nicotine concentration (1.1%).

The chemicals measured were:

Total Organic Carbon (TOC), xylene + toluene (paint thinners), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxide (NO), nicotine, acrolein (herbicide), poly-aromatic hydrocarbons (tar), and glycerin and propylene glycol levels on the air in the room.

Results:

During the smoking session, 19 cigarettes were smoked totaling 11.4 mg of nicotine. During the vaping session, 1.6 mL of e-juice was used totaling 17.6 mg of nicotine. During the smoking session there was toluene, xylene, carbon monoxide, nicotine, acrolein, and poly-aromatic hydrocarbons in the air. No glycerin, propylene glycol, or nitrogen oxide were detected.

During the vaping session, the ONLY chemicals found were organic carbon and glycerin. NO OTHER chemicals were detected in the room after the e-cig session!

Conclusion:

“Passive vaping is expected from the use of an e-cig however, the quality and quantity of chemicals released into the environment are by far less harmful to human health compared to tobacco cigarettes”. Basically, you will breath in more unhealthy chemicals from walking through a major city than you would from standing next to a vaper in a closed room! Stick that in your political pipe and smoke it…

*Read the full source article here to see exact chemical concentrations in the air along with further detail on the study.