In an article published this week, the New York Times warning about the dangers of electronic cigarette and e-liquid nicotines with more than 1,400 cases of nicotine poisoning last year in the United States. If the electronic cigarette does not contain tar, cyanide, nickel or lead, e-liquids are also not without danger. It is recalled that on Monday New York Times in an editorial calling for vigilance . Besides flavors, propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin , liquid electronic cigarettes can indeed contain the nicotine , a chemical that is both a source of dependence and reported as'very toxic' by the European Directive of 27 June 1967. The New York Times reports that as of 2013, "calls to poison control centers in the United States related to e-liquids have greatly increased" . The number of calls for intoxication would indeed tripled between 2012 and 2013 to reach the number 365. That the total number of poisoning nicotine would rise about him in 1414 to 2013 from the American Association of Poison Control Centers . A figure which already stands at 651 for the first four months of 2014. According to the American newspaper, the case is color and attractive aromas bottles that attract young children. However, doses of nicotine contained in the e-liquid vials in Europe they are limited to about 20 mg per mL . A dose, according to the New York Times , "can make you sick, but is rarely fatal for the child" . Since the explosion of electronic cigarette in recent years, only one case of death caused by intoxication nicotine has been increased. It was the suicide of an American who decided to inject nicotine directly into the bloodstream.
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