Chemical hazards present in liquids and vapors of electronic cigarettes

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1295-1308

  Hutzler, Christoph ^a   Paschke, Meike ^a   Kruschinski, Svetlana ^a   Henkler, Frank ^a   Hahn, Jürgen ^b   Luch, Andreas ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b Official Chemical and Veterinary Surveillance Institute Sigmaringen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic cigarette; Ethylene glycol; Flavors; Formaldehyde; Liquids; Vapor

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ACETAMIDE; ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; BENZALDEHYDE; BENZOPHENONE; BENZYL ACETATE; BENZYL ALCOHOL; BENZYL BENZOATE; CARVONE; CINEOLE; CINNAMALDEHYDE; CITRAL; COUMARIN; DECANOIC ACID; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; ETHYLMALTOL; EUGENOL; FORMALDEHYDE; GLYCEROL; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MENTHOL; PROPIONALDEHYDE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; PULEGONE; SOLVENT; SYRINGOL; TERPINEOL; VANILLIN; FLAVORING AGENT; NICOTINE;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLAVOR; GERMANY; HEATING; LIQUID; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PALATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAPOR; VAPORIZATION; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN;

NEPTUNIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLAVORING AGENTS; FORMALDEHYDE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GERMANY; HUMANS; NICOTINE; SOLVENTS;

EID: 84903458590     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-014-1294-7     Document Type: Article

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