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The relative safety of electronic versus conventional cigarettes is disputed. 2015 [74]: 76 and 2018 Public Health England (PHE) reports claimed that vaping is "at least 95% less harmful than smoking". [75]: 175 The Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Society for Public Health, and the National Health Service backed these claims. [76]
The disposable vapes sold in the UK last year used enough copper and lithium to manufacture 370,000 at-home electric vehicle chargers and more than 2,500 EV batteries, respectively. [2] The lithium found in vape batteries must also be mined from brine or hard rock. This can lead to water shortages and soil degradation and erosion. [4]
The LD 50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 0.5–1.0 mg/kg can be a lethal dosage for adult humans, and 0.1 mg/kg for children. [19] [20] However the widely used human LD 50 estimate of 0.5–1.0 mg/kg was questioned in a 2013 review, in light of several documented cases of humans surviving much higher doses; the 2013 review suggests that the lower limit causing fatal ...
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Food products and household items commonly handled by humans can be toxic to dogs. The symptoms can range from simple irritation to digestion issues, behavioral changes, and even death. The categories of common items ingested by dogs include food products, human medication, household detergents, indoor and outdoor toxic plants, and rat poison. [1]
Testing for harmful chemicals California requires cannabis products to be tested for 66 pesticides. That list, unchanged since 2018, has not kept pace with current cultivation practices.
The levels of toxic chemicals in e-cigarette vapor is in some cases similar to that of nicotine replacement products. [136] Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) such as nicotine-derived nitrosamine ketone (NNK) and N -Nitrosonornicotine (NNN) and tobacco-specific impurities have been found in the e-cigarette vapor at very low levels, [ 114 ...