The tone of the article, don’t worry but rather increase your nic level than increase liquid consumption.
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Yes it is a new study. Here is the original source of the study. Is from 19 Jun. 2018
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I put the (?) because I’ve heard him say something quite similar a good while ago… I believe it was on the international e-cigarette forum (not the site). The information isn’t new to me, but perhaps he did another official study to confirm his findings.
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Iv3shf
June 29, 2018, 6:40am
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You’re right! He probably went deeper into the subject, because last year he did a similar comparison:
KE Farsalinos, N Yannovits, T Sarri, V Voudris and K Poulas,
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco , Jun 2017 16
The purpose was to measure nicotine levels to the tobacco and levels emitted to the aerosol of a heat-not-burn product (HnB, IQOS) compared to e-cigarettes (ECs) and a tobacco cigarette.The HnB device and regular and menthol sticks were purchased from Italy. Three types of ECs (ciga-like, eGo-style and variable wattage) and a commercially-available tobacco cigarette were also tested. A custom-made liquid containing 2% nicotine was used with ECs. Products were tested using Health Canada Intense puffing regime while HnB and ECs were additionally tested using a 4 s puff duration regime while maintaining the same puff volume.Nicotine content in HnB regular and menthol tobacco sticks was 15.2 ± 1.1 mg/g and 15.6 ± 1.7 mg/g tobacco respectively. The levels of nicotine to the aerosol were similar for regular and menthol HnB products (1.40 ± 0.16 and 1.38 ± 0.11 mg/12 puffs respectively) and did not change significantly with prolonged puff duration. The tobacco cigarette delivered the highest level of nicotine (1.99 ± 0.20 mg/cigarette), with levels being higher than HnB and ECs under Health Canada Intense regime but similar to eGo-style and variable wattage ECs at prolonged puff duration regime.The HnB product delivers nicotine to the aerosol at levels higher than ECs but lower than a tobacco cigarette when tested using Health Canada Intense puffing regime. No change in HnB nicotine delivery was observed at prolonged puff duration with the same puff volume, unlike ECs which deliver more nicotine with longer puff duration.Nicotine delivery to the smoker is expected to play an important role in the ability to any harm reduction product to successfully substitute smoking. This study evaluated the content and nicotine delivery to the aerosol of a heat-not-burn tobacco product (IQOS) in comparison with e-cigarettes and a tobacco cigarette. The main findings were that the tobacco sticks contained similar nicotine concentration to tobacco cigarettes, and that the levels nicotine delivered to the aerosol of the heat-not-burn products were lower than tobacco cigarette, higher than e-cigarettes at low puff duration but lower than high-power e-cigarettes at longer puff duration.
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This study is for nicotine levels, new one is for Carbonyl emissions.
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jay210
June 29, 2018, 3:52pm
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From the research paper (linked to by @Laberythm )
CONCLUSIONS:
The IQOS heated tobacco product emits substantially lower levels of carbonyls than a commercial tobacco cigarette (Marlboro Red) but higher levels than a Nautilus Mini e-cigarette.
the article linked to by OP is mostly based on an interview which Farsolinos gave. The rationale for increasing nic levels rather than sub ohm is that doubling juice consumption doubles toxin exposure. That said, toxin levels in the ecig were so extremely low , why worry?
For my own part I’m a lot more worried about increased VG consumption by subohming. Can’t be good for the environment, methinks.
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