The effects of alcohol-containing e-cigarettes on young adult smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The liquids (e-liquids) used in an electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) contain myriad chemicals without adequate human inhalation safety data. Furthermore, the absence of e-liquid labeling requirements poses a formidable challenge to understanding how e-liquid constituents may promote nicotine addiction and/or have independent or synergistic biological effects when combined with nicotine. Ethyl alcohol is such a constituent, but has received little scientific interest in this context.

Methods

Using a randomized, double blind, crossover design, acute changes in subjective drug effects, motor performance and biochemical measures of alcohol and nicotine intake were evaluated after directed and ad lib puffing from two commercially available e-liquids containing nicotin

SUBMITTER: Valentine GW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5171208 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature