Findings from the 2014 National Youth Tobacco Survey show that current e-cigarette use (use on at least 1 day in the past 30 days) among high school students increased from 4.5% in 2013 to 13.4% in 2014, rising from approximately 660,000 to two million students
PAHs like benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P), radionuclides and alfatoxins have been classified as potent carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) 6,18,19
Determination of conventional chemical composition Total alkaloids, water-soluble total sugar, and reducing sugar were determined by the continuous flow method, using the same macromolecular content determination equipment as above, and referring to YC/T 1602002 (Tobacco and tobacco productsDetermination of total alkaloids, 2002), YC/T 2172007 (Tobacco and tobacco productsDetermination of Potassium, 2007) and YC/T 1592019 (Tobacco and tobacco productsDetermination of water soluble sugars, 2019) respectively
Dark air-cured leaf is high in nicotine and used in chewing and snuff and some pipe mixtures