The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating a possible link between e-cigarette use and seizures, the agency announced today (April 3).
The FDA said that, between 2010 and 2019, there were 35 reported cases of people who had seizures shortly after they used e-cigarettes. Most of these reports involved teenagers or young adults.
The US government has unveiled new federal rules that include a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes to people aged under 18.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will also require manufacturers to submit products to the agency for review.
Cigars, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco are also subject to the new rules.
On Wednesday, California introduced new anti-smoking legislation that also regulates e-cigarettes.
He was, of course, talking about physical safety; a Mother Jones report earlier this year was subtitled “a brief history of e-cigs blowing up—in your face, in your car, in your home, in your bar. ” But if that weren’t enough, e-cigarettes are now also proving virtually dangerous: last week an IT employee on Reddit outlined the case of a malware infection that came as the result of using a USB port to charge an e-cigarette that was made in China.
Electronic cigarettes can change gene expression in a similar way to tobacco, according to one of the first studies to investigate the biological effects of the devices.
Presented at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting on 6 April in San Diego, California, the research looked at human bronchial cells that contained some mutations found in smokers at risk of lung cancer. The cells were immortalized, grown in culture medium that had been exposed to e-cigarette vapor and their gene expression profiled
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