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Esther Omaiye

University of California Riverside
Verified email at ucr.edu
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High-nicotine electronic cigarette products: toxicity of JUUL fluids and aerosols correlates strongly with nicotine and some flavor chemical concentrations

EE Omaiye, KJ McWhirter, W Luo… - Chemical research in …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Whereas JUUL electronic cigarettes (ECs) have captured the majority of the EC market, with
a large fraction of their sales going to adolescents, little is known about their cytotoxicity and …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of cytotoxic flavor chemicals in top-selling electronic cigarette refill fluids

M Hua, EE Omaiye, W Luo, KJ McWhirter, JF Pankow… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We identified the most popular electronic cigarette (EC) refill fluids using an Internet survey
and local and online sales information, quantified their flavor chemicals, and evaluated …

[HTML][HTML] High concentrations of flavor chemicals are present in electronic cigarette refill fluids

EE Omaiye, KJ McWhirter, W Luo, PA Tierney… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We characterized the flavor chemicals in a broad sample of commercially available electronic
cigarette (EC) refill fluids that were purchased in four different countries. Flavor chemicals …

Disposable puff bar electronic cigarettes: chemical composition and toxicity of e-liquids and a synthetic coolant

EE Omaiye, W Luo, KJ McWhirter… - Chemical research in …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The popularity of disposable fourth-generation electronic cigarettes (ECs) among young
adults and adolescents has been increasing since the ban on flavored cartridge EC products …

Flavour chemicals, synthetic coolants and pulegone in popular mint-flavoured and menthol-flavoured e-cigarettes

EE Omaiye, W Luo, KJ McWhirter… - Tobacco …, 2022 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
… Esther E Omaiye1, … Sciences and the Food and Drug Administration Centre for Tobacco
Products, and a Predoctoral Fellowship from the UCR Graduate Division to Esther Omaiye. …

Ethyl maltol, vanillin, corylone and other conventional confectionery-related flavour chemicals dominate in some e-cigarette liquids labelled 'tobacco'flavoured

EE Omaiye, W Luo, KJ McWhirter… - Tobacco …, 2022 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Background The increased popularity of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has been linked
to the abundance of flavoured products that are attractive to adolescents and young adults. …

Electronic cigarette refill fluids sold worldwide: flavor chemical composition, toxicity, and hazard analysis

EE Omaiye, W Luo, KJ McWhirter… - Chemical research in …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Flavor chemicals in electronic cigarette (EC) fluids, which may negatively impact human
health, have been studied in a limited number of countries/locations. To gain an understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Design features and elemental/metal analysis of the atomizers in pod-style electronic cigarettes

EE Omaiye, M Williams, KN Bozhilov, P Talbot - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The atomizers of electronic cigarettes (ECs) contain metals that transfer to the
aerosol upon heating and may present health hazards. This study analyzed 4 th -generation …

[HTML][HTML] Counterfeit electronic cigarette products with mislabeled nicotine concentrations

EE Omaiye, I Cordova, B Davis… - Tobacco regulatory …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives We compared nicotine concentrations in one brand of refill fluids that were
purchased in 4 countries and labeled 0 mg of nicotine/mL. We then identified counterfeit e-…

[HTML][HTML] A synthetic coolant (WS-23) in disposable electronic cigarettes impairs cytoskeletal function in EpiAirway microtissues exposed at the air liquid interface

…, T Martinez, M Tran, C Zuvia, A Gadkari, EE Omaiye… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The design of popular disposable electronic cigarettes (ECs) was analyzed, and the
concentrations of WS-23, a synthetic coolant, in EC fluids were determined for 22 devices from 4 …