Opinion of those who had been declared the electric cigarette is healthier than regular cigarettes were wrong. Head of the Food and Drug Administration Republic Kustantinah explains, electric cigarettes as dangerous as regular cigarettes burned.
The content of propylene glycol, dieter glycol and glycerin as a solvent nicotine was found to cause cancer.
"Maybe people think cigarettes contain nicotine electric only, and if there are regular cigarettes other materials," said Chief BPOM Kustantinah RI in Jakarta, Friday, August 13, 2010.
Kustantinah explained in electric cigarette nicotine liquid contained in the solvent propylene glycol, glycerin or glycol dieter. If nicotine and the solvent is heated it will produce nitrosamines. "This nitrosamine compounds that cause cancer."
Kustantinah added, all electric cigarettes that circulate in Indonesia is illegal and harmful to health. Around the world, he also revealed, no single country that approved the electric cigarette.
Even in some countries such as Australia, Brazil and China cigarette Electrically prohibited.
"Whereas in China that found cigarette electrically in 2003. However, the Chinese government has banned its circulation," he explains.
For that BPOM with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Industry and Trade Ministry will study more about the electric cigarette. "Electronic Cigarette will never registered, approved and will be banned in Indonesia," he said.
The content of propylene glycol, dieter glycol and glycerin as a solvent nicotine was found to cause cancer.
"Maybe people think cigarettes contain nicotine electric only, and if there are regular cigarettes other materials," said Chief BPOM Kustantinah RI in Jakarta, Friday, August 13, 2010.
Kustantinah explained in electric cigarette nicotine liquid contained in the solvent propylene glycol, glycerin or glycol dieter. If nicotine and the solvent is heated it will produce nitrosamines. "This nitrosamine compounds that cause cancer."
Kustantinah added, all electric cigarettes that circulate in Indonesia is illegal and harmful to health. Around the world, he also revealed, no single country that approved the electric cigarette.
Even in some countries such as Australia, Brazil and China cigarette Electrically prohibited.
"Whereas in China that found cigarette electrically in 2003. However, the Chinese government has banned its circulation," he explains.
For that BPOM with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Industry and Trade Ministry will study more about the electric cigarette. "Electronic Cigarette will never registered, approved and will be banned in Indonesia," he said.
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