Vapers: a study reveals that mint flavors are more toxic to the lungs

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Liath Guetta (pulmonologist)

Are menthol vapes more dangerous to health than banana or strawberry flavored ones? Yes, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). This research team has indeed discovered that electronic cigarettes containing menthol generate many more toxic microparticles than others.

Real lung damage

To verify this theory, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh compared the vapor given off by menthol and non-menthol vapers in a lab.

Specifically, the team analyzed the lungs of 94 participants: 25 who used menthol e-cigarettes and 69 “vapers“, fans of other flavors.

This is how they discovered that electronic cigarettes containing menthol generated many more toxic microparticles than varieties without menthol. Menthol additives thus appeared to cause lung damage in users of e-cigarettes and menthol vapers.

Additionally, users of menthol e-cigarettes seemed to have a harder time breathing: their lungs weren’t able to expel as much air as those who vaped other flavors.

The addition of mint flavor to e-cigarette liquids would therefore be associated, according to the team of scientists, with a deterioration in lung function.

The vapoteuse remains less worse than the cigarette

Conclusions of common sense, according to Dr. Guetta, who nevertheless specifies that the more pronounced dangerousness of the “vapoteuse à la mint” is not a known fact.

The specialist obviously recommends that non-smokers never let themselves be “tempted” by vapers, which remain extremely harmful to health.