It kills over 400,000 Americans each year. One in five Americans are addicted to it, yet it is 100% legal to use and consume. Everyone that does it knows that it will eventually kill them, yet Americans still continue to smoke. However a new product has hit the market that is helping many to quit. It looks and has the same effects as a traditional cigarette yet none of the ingredients that kill people. This alternative is called an electronic cigarette or e-cigarette and is pictured in figure 1. The practice of using the e-cigarette is called vaping. Although the long term ramifications of vaping are still unknown, e-cigarettes are a more desirable substitute to traditional smoking. The simplicity of ingredients inhaled, the controllable nicotine levels, and the benefits to the greater public are what have proven that e-cigarettes are a healthier alternative for us all.
So what exactly is an e-cigarette? It is a battery powered device that delivers nicotine to its user in the form of vapor. The FDA published a definition on its website. It explains that they are composed of a rechargeable battery, a heating element, and a tank or replaceable cartridge. An atomizer heats the contents inside the tank known as “juice” into a vapor. The vapor is then inhaled by its user. But it comes down to the ingredients in the juice that makes the e-cigarette a better choice.
The American Lung Association states on their website that there are approximately 600 ingredients in a traditional cigarette. When it is burned, it creates more than 4,000 chemicals and 50 of them are known to cause cancer. More specifically, cigarettes contain ingredients like acetone, arsenic, carbon monoxide, lead, and tar to name a few. However, many people who smoke ar...
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Electronic Cigarette’s are a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes. Compared to smoking tobacco, a vapor is a much better alternative. Cigarettes have thousands of chemicals in just one cigarette. E-cigs just have four ingredients, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, artificial flavors, and nicotine.
From my late teens, into my mid-twenties, I was a smoker. At first, it was just recreational; however that changed fairly quickly. I began buying them and smoking regularly throughout the day. It then progressed to smoking a pack per day until it was too late. I was officially addicted. I knew it was a terrible habit and I was shamed of it and would hide it from friends and family hoping they wouldn’t find out. Finally, after coughing hacking, and repeatedly getting sick several times a year, I came to the realization that I had to quit. However, it wasn’t as easy as I had anticipated. After relapsing several times before I was finally able to quit, I broke this terrible habit successfully. It was an extremely difficult habit to break and I’ll never go back. I was a lucky individual who had the mental toughness and willpower to overcome this strong addiction, but Americans struggle to quit each year, and many never do. However, there’s a new product on the market today called electronic cigarettes that are believed to aid individuals in the fight against addiction. It’s a battery powered device that heats a nicotine diluted solution into a vapor that is then inhaled. It’s believed to be a healthier, more affordable alternative to tobacco cigarettes. It is much safer because it doesn’t have nearly as many harmful chemicals as tobacco cigarettes and it’s believed to be much more affordable for consumers. However, many critics believe that electronic cigarettes are extremely addictive and just as harmful. Although electronic cigarettes are believed to be detrimental to people’s heath due to low quality product standards, harmful components in filling solution, and reports suggesting they’re addictive and just as harmful as toba...
E-cigs are less harmful than regular cigarettes. They mimic the sensations of traditional cigarettes but do not burn or create tobacco smoke or ashes. Nor do they contain tar, the main cause of cancer in smokers”. e cigs bring lots of health advantages to smokers they are less harmful for smokers. For example, E-cigs can help regular smokers cut down on smoking cigarettes. Regular smokers can smoke spend less on cigarettes and incest in having an E-cig. Some might say they are cheaper than spending more than 20 dollars or more on three boxes of cigarettes. They think that is is beneficial for smoker who are having hard time trying to quit smoking and this could be an alternative for them instead having to quit. E-cigs have a tremendous untapped potential to positively change the lives of adult smokers of traditional cigarettes. They are more accessible to kids under 18 and they can be very dangerous if you don’t know how
E-cigarette is also known as “vaping” which vaporizes a liquid solution containing nicotine through battery-powered heat held in a mouthpiece of the device. The main difference between e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes is that e-cigarettes do not contain tobacco, but it does contain toxic chemicals that are also in regular cigarettes. Young adults believe it is safer than a regular tobacco product because of less harmful chemicals, but it has not been thoroughly checked to be safe. Consumers do not know the potential risks of e-cigarettes including how much nicotine or other chemicals are inhaled, or how it may lead them to try regular cigarettes. The vapor look and may feel like tobacco smoke and contain different amounts of strengths, from no nicotine up to 24 milligrams or more. It is almost the same as regular cigarettes, and it might as well be treated as regular cigarettes, but in a lesser degree of strength. E-cigarettes are no different than cigarettes because their prices are not cheap and are comparable to that of regular tobacco products.
Electronic cigarette is a battery charged electronic device made up of chemicals and metals that
Electronic cigarettes are a viable alternative to smoking regular tobacco cigarettes. Recently, they have become increasingly popular because they have many benefits and do not have the harmful side effects of smoking tobacco cigarettes. Moreover, electronic cigarettes are cheaper, come in a wide variety of flavours, and do not produce an unpleasant odour. Unlike tobacco cigarettes, electronic cigarettes can be used anywhere and have no restrictions. The benefits are recognised by both health care providers and governmental agencies alike. For a great alternative to smoking, electronic cigarettes are the best option.
To begin, e-cigarettes work through the use of use of batteries. The energy from the battery is used to produce heat. Combustion is used in order to heat the liquid
E-cigarettes are marketed to be a safe alternative to smoking, but is it really? They are battery operated smoking devices. These do not contain tobacco, like a regular cigarette does, but they do contain nicotine. Tobacco contains nicotine naturally in it. The cigarettes heat up a liquid
Electronic cigarettes or “e-cigarettes” were developed in 1963, when Herbert A. Gilbert filed for a patent for a device that replaced burning tobacco with moist, flavored air. It wasn’t until 2004 that the e-cigarette was introduced as a smoking cessation device in the Chinese market, which was attributed to a pharmacist named Hon Lik. (Bekki et al. 11193) Since then, a nicotine carrying aerosol rather than a carcinogen laden smoke. One study of the effectiveness of electronic cigarettes showed that a surveyed group showed that 66.8% reported a reduction in smoking, suggesting that the e-cigarette may be a promising smoking-cessation method. (Siegel et al. 472) Unfortunately, as with all “medicinal”
Electronic cigarettes have a coil that heats the liquid into vapor. This method of eliminating cigarette smoking is more convenient for people in this day because there are shops that do sell these electronic cigarettes. Since they are convenient, it is increasingly popular worldwide and more smokers might be thinking to make the switch. With this method, smokers can reduce the cigarette consumption and continue to have the “smoking” experience with less heath risks. Although there is not too much research on it smokers should make the switch because it is healthier and cleaner for the environment. When you take a puff on the electronic cigarette, the battery heats up the nicotine, which creates vapor that is then inhaled into the lungs. Smokers should be allowed to smoke electronic cigarettes in public, also known as “vaping”, because it is safer and won’t cause a fire as fast as a cigarette would. Although it does have a battery and batteries can explode due to having the battery being used for a long period of time. You would be able to notice it getting hot before it actually catches on fire, due to the heat it is producing. There are now new
There is a new trend hitting the market known as e-cigarettes, or “vaping.” Many people believe that e-cigarettes are better than traditional cigarettes, but research shows just how unhealthy and harmful e-cigarettes are for everyone. The FDA has not yet decided if e-cigarettes should be regulated like tobacco products. E-cigarettes are marketed to help people quit smoking and live a healthier nonsmoking life. E-cigarettes are meant to help break the habit of smoking, but why are there so many “toxic chemicals” (Gilger) in the vapor? Is this new invention to help people quit smoking or just another way for tobacco companies to get richer?
One of the biggest problems with society today is children and young adults are turning to electronic cigarettes for a source to nicotine. It is understood that some people might think that electronic cigarettes are better for people but here is why they are not. Electronic cigarettes have the same consequences as normal cigarettes with very few differences, such as in electronic cigarettes there is no tobacco and there is no carbon monoxide. Some might not know what is really in electronic cigarettes. Many people don’t know that there are over seven thousand chemicals and cartridges in these devices. Smoking electronic cigarettes has the same effects as normal cigarettes; they as well have been known to cause cancer and other diseases. Here is why electronic cigarettes are just as bad for the human body as
Everyone knows that cigarettes are horrible for your health and increase your risks of cancer. Not too long ago there was a big advertisement for e-cigarettes also known as vaping. It was advertised to be a healthier alternative and comparable to a nicotine patch to help you quit smoking. Many people began to question this new form of smoking and if it was really a safer alternative. Even though vaping is a safer alternative than smoking, vaping is not harmless because you are still getting nicotine, inhaling poison and risking a weaker immune system.
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A study from Hatsukami and colleagues (2010) about reducing the levels of nicotine in tobacco, in order to help prevent addiction and help wean off the habit brought a different alternative to quit tobacco. A new technology has arrived and it has been beneficial by weaning off smokers from nicotine and it is called the electronic cigarette. According to Stifferlin (2014), “researchers found that based on the evidence, e-cigs are much less harmful to smokers and bystanders compared to conventional cigarettes” and researchers also found “that e-cigs can help some users cut down on their use of regular cigarettes and even quit.” Due to the fact that e-cigs are fairly new, researchers are still unaware the health issues it may bring. Currently e-cigs are better than a traditional cigarette because of the fewer toxins it