Electronic Cigarettes and DNA Damage

International Journal of Material Science and Engineering

© 2019 by SSRG - IJMSE Journal

Volume 5 Issue 3

Year of Publication : 2019

Authors : Thomas Prevenslik

10.14445/23948884/IJMSE-V5I3P102

How to Cite?

Thomas Prevenslik, "Electronic Cigarettes and DNA Damage," SSRG International Journal of Material Science and Engineering, vol. 5,  no. 3, pp. 7-10, 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23948884/IJMSE-V5I3P102

Abstract:

Electronic e-cigarettes are common throughout the world. E-cigarettes deliver the nicotine stimulant through aerosols to the lungs without burning tobacco. Recently, e-cigarette smokers have mysteriously expressed nicotine poisoning symptoms including nausea and vomiting, excessive salivation, headache, and dizziness followed by a period of central nervous system depression, paralysis, difficulty in breathing and even death. Unlike the immediacy of nicotine poisoning, the potential of cancer developing decades later from e-cigarette use was assessed with DNA tests that showed nicotine enhanced the UV-induced DNA mutation frequency in human lung and bladder epithelial cells by two- to fourfold. Enhanced DNA damage is consistent with simple QED that predicts nanoparticles (NPs) produced from the metal heater in the e-cigarette emit UV radiation well known to
cause DNA mutations that may lead to cancer. The mystery of nicotine poisoning is solved by removing the heater producing the NPs, but then the nicotine would remain in the ground state and not enhance the stimulation of the smoker's senses

Keywords:

e-cigarettes, nanoparticles, DNA damage, cancer.

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