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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
卷 126, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
US DEPT HEALTH HUMAN SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1289/EHP2175
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- Cigarette Restitution Fund (State of Maryland) [PHPA-G2034]
- Alfonso Martin Escudero Foundation
- American Heart Association Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center [1P50HL120163]
- National institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institutes of Health [5P30ES009089]
BACKGROUND: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) generate an aerosol by healing a solution (e-liquid) with a metallic coil. Whether metals are trans ferred from the coil to the aerosol is unknown. OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to investigate the transfer of metals from the heating coil to the e-liquid in the e-cigarette tank and the generated aerosol. METHODS: We sampled 56 e-cigarette devices from daily e-cigarette users and obtained samples from the relining dispenser, aerosol, and remaining e-liquid in the tank. Aerosol liquid was collected via deposition of aerosol droplets in a series of conical pipette lips. Metals were reported as mass fractions (mu g/kg) in liquids and converted to mass concentrations (mg/m(3)) for aerosols. RESULTS: Median metal concentrations (mu g/kg) were higher in samples from the aerosol and tank vs. the dispenser p < 0.000: 16.3 and 31.2 vs. 10.9 for Al; 8.38 and 55.4 vs. <0.5 for Cr; 68.4 and 233 vs. 2.03 for Ni; 14.8 and 40.2 vs. 0.476 for Pb; and 515 and 426 vs. 13.1 for Zn. Mn, Fe, Cu, Sb, and Sn were detectable in most samples. Cd was detected in 0.0, 30.4, and 55.1% of the dispenser, aerosol, and tank samples respectively. Arsenic was detected in 10.7% of dispenser samples (median 26.7 mu g/kg) and these concentrations were similar in aerosol and tank samples. Aerosol mass concentrations (mg/m(3)) for the detected metals spanned several orders of magnitude and exceeded current health-based limits in close to 50% or more of the samples for Cr, Mn, Ni, and Pb. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that e-cigarettes are a potential source of exposure to toxic metals (Cr, Ni, and Pb), and to metals that are toxic when inhaled (Mn and Zn). Markedly higher concentrations in the aerosol and tank samples versus the dispenser demonstrate that coil contact induced e-liquid contamination.
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