The Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to ban all non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes and now a study from Duke University raises serious health concerns for people using mint and menthol flavored e-cigarette products: a potentially cancer-causing chemical in some of the e-cigarette liquids
The study details high levels of a chemical called pulegone, which in other studies has been found to cause cancerous changes in the livers and lungs of mice that ingested it. Pulegone is a constituent of oil extracts prepared from mint products and it’s been found in mint and menthol-flavored e-cigarette products.
“Now in 2019, there is still a large number of tank users, often the most regular and intense users of vaping products and likely at the highest risk of developing adverse reactions,” explains Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt, study co-author. “Current regulations on e-cigarettes are inadequate,” Jabba said. “The FDA needs to implement new regulations to exclude harmful chemicals like pulegone to reduce the associated health effects.”All companies were contacted for comment about pulegone concentrations in their products and only Premium responded.
Story continues“Pulegone is only present in JUUL e-liquids in very small quantities, as a naturally occurring constituent of mint flavoring,” said JUUL spokesperson Lindsay Andrews. “Based on the calculation in the study, in order to reach an exposure level above the threshold of carcinogenic concern for pulegone, a person would have to consume hundreds of pods per day.”
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