Charging with iPhone with iPod Charger ?

This may be a simple question, but I have not seen anything offical on this. Is it acceptable to use an ipod charger to charge the iphone?
I have been doing this successfully so I can charge at home (with my old ipod charge) and at the office (with the charger that came with the iphone), but I do not know if this will cause any issues.
Could not think of why not, but thought I would throw it out there.

Well I have old iPod 4 Gen charger and the output is 13v. my iPhone charger actually print "iPod charger" on it but the output is only 5V! So I'm worry if I use the old iPod charger for the iPhone it will smoke my new toy! will it? I haven't try.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1476
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