By: Danielle Seely
Vaping
is the New Smoking
What cigarettes call smoke;
E-cigarettes call vape
Background
Leading
to a new generation of the usage of nicotine is what is now called “vaping”.
E-cigarettes do not burn tobacco; they are battery-operated devices that act
like inhalers. They heat up and vaporize liquid containing nicotine and flavors
of all kinds. The amount of nicotine in the liquids used with
e-cigarettes--often called "vape juice” varies, and people can start
purchasing liquid with no nicotine or nicotine content ranging from 3
milligrams per milliliter to 18 milligrams per milliliter or even much higher.
While older studies have suggested that some teens are using the nicotine-free
vaping liquids, researchers say the majority of teens appear to be using
nicotine-infused liquid in their e-cigarettes. The new study released in
the journal Pediatrics, have discovered that the use of cigarettes and
E-cigarettes are among 5,490 California high school seniors that graduated between
the years of 1995-2014. But E-cigarettes have not made a dent in regular cigarette
use. “The numbers suggest that rather than prompting teenagers to replace
cigarette smoking with vaping, e-cigarettes instead have enticed an entirely
new group of teenagers to use nicotine.” Reported from:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/health/e-cigarettes-vaping-quitting-smoking-royal-college-of-physicians.html.
Purpose
Why haven’s the rates of smoking cigarettes gone down if
E-cigarettes are doing the same thing? Are E-cigarettes not as strong as
cigarettes? If you control how much nicotine goes in, then how are E-cigarettes
a healthier way to quit smoking?
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Evidence
Smoking in general accounts for more than 480,000 deaths
every year in the US. And an additional 16 million Americans live today with a
smoking related disease. We need to prevent people from smoking and if
E-cigarettes are encouraging more people to smoke then are a problem. But
smokers have said that E-cigarettes can help wean smokers off tobacco, without
a sudden change and or risk to their health. As
e-cigarette technology improves, these products will almost certainly become
more-effective tools to help smokers in breaking their habit and addiction to regular
cigarettes. While quitting all nicotine-containing products may be the perfect goal,
smokers who try to stop on their own have less than a 5% chance of long-term
success and only about a 10% chance with help from a medical professional. Reported
from:http://www.wsj.com/articles/are-e-cigarettes-a-healthy-way-to-quit-smoking-1460340169.
With the rates and what’s happening in our
society today, teens are starting out young on E-cigarettes and they are
turning into regular smokers. E-cigarettes are copying the appeals rand the
lifestyle of regular cigarettes and applying them to teens to make them look
more enticing and “cool.” Teens that use
E-cigarettes are six times more likely to try regular cigarettes within two
years than those who have never tried E-cigarettes. “The study, published in
the journal Pediatrics, found that out of 300 southern California high school
students surveyed in 2014, approximately half reported having tried an
e-cigarette at least once. In a 2015 follow-up survey, approximately 40 percent
of students who had reported trying an e-cigarette the previous year had tried
regular cigarettes, compared to only 11 percent of those who had not tried
vaping.” Reported from:http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0426/E-cigarettes-help-adults-quit-smoking-but-they-encourage-teens-to-start.
We
need to protect our Americans from the dangers of nicotine and tobacco usage,
especially our youth. Cigarette smoking
under 18 has fallen, but the usage of nicotine products such as E-cigarettes
has taken a drastic leap and is creating a new generation of addiction.
E-cigarettes in teens are not harmless and do not help with weaning smokers off
cigarettes so with the FDA providing laws to stop selling to minors will help
prevent in early addiction. Reported from:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/28/e-cig-vapor-releases-two-new-cancerous-chemicals-study-says/.
Liquid nicotine in e-cigarettes
can harm children if swallowed or absorbed into the skin. Vomiting, a increased
heartbeat and shaky behavior are among the symptoms. Keeping E-cigarettes from
young children and teens are among the parents duties too. Strict laws are
being enforced but it relies on the parents and what they allow their children
to do and behave. Most exposures to e-cigarettes were at home. Among those who
received medical care, less than 3 percent were hospitalized. Almost 2 percent,
or 77 kids, had severe complications breathing problems, coma or seizures.
E-cigarettes were designed to help smokers not kill kids younger or start them
on the road to quick death. Reported from:http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/20160509/e-cigarette-poisonings-surge-in-young-children-study-says.
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Conclusion
E-cigarettes are a helpful way of helping smokers quit
smoking which would lower the rates of death and disease in the US. But they
are also causing more smokers to appear in younger age. High school students
all around the country are “vaping” and already getting addicted to that
lifestyle. If we are starting smokers at a younger age then we will obtain more
smokers than quitters, causing more deaths, and diseases. Continuing to sell
E-cigarettes would be helpful for those trying to quit but just like the age
law with cigarettes there should be the same age law for E-cigarettes and stop
starting disease and early deaths in teens. Sell E-cigarettes for the quitters
and not the beginners.
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