Test Results for University of Connecticut (IMAGE)
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UConn chemists tested e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes for potential DNA damage caused by a known carcinogen (NNK) at different inhalation rates - 20, 60, and 100 puffs. Twenty puffs from an e-cigarette was deemed equivalent to smoking one tobacco cigarette. This chart shows DNA damage from nicotine e-cigarettes (EC) was approximately equivalent to damage caused by smoking unfiltered cigarettes (nf-TC). Damage levels increased with the number of puffs.
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Image courtesy of Karteek Kadimisetty and the journal ACS Sensors. Copyright 2017 American Chemical Society.
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