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Traces of substances suspected of causing lung damage have been detected in some liquid e-cigarettes on the market. The government has decided to maintain strong recommendations to stop using liquid e-cigarettes until the cause is determined.

Reporter Nam Joo-hyun on the sidewalk.

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These are liquid e-cigarette products on the market.

Following a number of lung damage patients suspected of being liquid e-cigarettes in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration examined seven major suspected substances in 153 products.

Hemp-derived ingredients, THC, which are strongly suspected of being suspected of lung damage in the United States, have not been detected in all products.

Another suspicious substance, Vitamin E Acetate, has been detected in 13 products, including Jullab's Jurpot Crisp and KT & G's Seed Tobacco.

[President Eugene / Korean Society of Non-Smoking Society: Because the viscosity is sticky, if you inhale excessively, pneumonia is caused by oil. The amount detected in our country is actually very small.]

However, since trace amounts of vitamin E acetate and others are detected, we do not stop selling them immediately, but we do research on the cause.

In the first half of next year, we decided to continue to strongly recommend discontinuing the use of liquid e-cigarettes until the Hazard Studies report came out.

Experts recommended refraining from using liquid e-cigarettes.

However, if you do not quit smoking, you should not go back to regular cigarettes, and when you smoke liquid cigarettes, do not mix any additives such as vitamin E acetate.