A mechanical engineer has constructed a new and conventional way for the electronic cigarette’s design to dispense drugs in a safe and medically useful way. After improving upon the electronic cigarette’s anatomy, a new device could hold merit in the medical field and help smokers and drug abusers quit thanks to release-controlled doses of nicotine and other drugs.
Electronic cigarettes were first developed by Hon Lik, a Chinese pharmacist who invented the device after his father died of lung cancer. It was then introduced into the U.S. markets in 2006 and months later, Noah Minskoff’s mother died of lung cancer and spurred a similar inspiration.
Minskoff took the electronic cigarette, which is a battery operated device used to deliver nicotine and other chemicals into a vapor form for the user, and sent it to his mechanical engineer friend Nathan Terry. These devices, commonly known as e-cigarettes, are emblematic of the everyday cigarette or cigar; however, they are unregulated by theFood and Drug Administration (FDA) and are not standardized across the board.
When Terry disassembled the device, he found wires, bundles of glass fibers, steel wool, silicon, plastic, tape, and adhesive, according to Reuters. Terry believed current e-cigarette users could unintentionally be inhaling dangerous particles and toxic fumes.
“There were red flags everywhere,” Terry told Reuters.
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