Is someone smoking – or vaping?
Insurers, employers, researchers, and clinicians face this question all the time.
Smoke Signature
™
sorts out vapers from smokers.
Current testing methods can't distinguish between traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes. Conventional tests pinpoint vapers – or those using nicotine-replacement gum, lozenges, or patches – as heavy smokers!
Here's why they miss the mark:
A conventional blood or urine test
measures nicotine
by analyzing cotinine. Nicotine is present in e-cigarettes, but the tar and other toxins found in tobacco are not.
Smoke Signature
measures toxins
(specifically polyaromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs) through epigenetic tests that quantify DNA methylation.
