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Benzene formation in electronic cigarettes

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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0173055


As usual they dry hitted the fuck out of the 1.8 ohm Protank by running it at 13 watts which ends up being 4.8 volts.

In the chart you will notice that the Protank did decent at 6 watts.


Anyone who has been vaping for at least 3 years knows that a Protank with a 1.8 ohm coil starts tasting like shit when you get above 8 or 9 watts which is 3.8 to 4 volts.

I used to run these coils in my Protank V1 on my Vamo V2 toward the end of 2012 at 8 watts max


Then there is this:


"Assuming a total puff volume of ~400 mL/cigarette for the smoking protocol used. such deliveries correspond to a smoke benzene concentration of ~200,000 μg/m3, and so a much higher risk from benzene for chronic use of tobacco cigarettes as compared to e-cigarettes."


Even in the absolute worst conditions of everything they tested they could only dry burn 5400 μg/m3 of benzene out of the protank with a 1.8 ohm silica coil at 13 watts.

They could only get 101 μg/m3 of benzene out of the Kanger Subtank Nano with a 1.2ohm OCC coil at 25 watts.


So your choices are:

A smoke benzene concentration of ~200,000 μg/m3
A Kanger Protank with a 1.8ohm silica coil at 13 watts benzene concentration of ~5400 μg/m3
A Kanger Subtank Nano with a 1.2ohm OCC coil at 25 watts benzene concentration of ~101 μg/m3


I think i'll choose vaping
How about you? - 5150


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But even when over-driving the Pro Tank with 13 watts, they only got 5000 μg/m3 compared to 200,000 μg/m3. in cigarette smoke. So even if you abuse the crap out of it and it's still way better than smoking.
 

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