Electronic Cigarette Ads: Are They What They Claim to Be? Living in a world where many prefer to believe what is shown to them, rather than doing some of their own research, can lead to consequences. (Figure 1) Some people believe electronic cigarettes are a safer and healthier alternative to the actual cigarette because of how they are advertised. “Because they [e-cigs] deliver nicotine without burning tobacco, e-cigarettes are purported to be safer and less toxic than conventional cigarettes. Despite these claims, there’s still no real data on the effects of e-cigarettes (positive or negative), yet marketing materials still bill them as a healthy choice” (Worthington emphasis mine). Drug advertisements normally show the beneficial side of …show more content…
The symptoms of a person who decides to stop using e-cigs are similar to those trying to quit smoking actual cigarettes. According to an article “Handling Withdrawal Symptoms & Triggers When You Decide to Quit”, the symptoms of a person who quits smoking actual cigarettes which contain tobacco and nicotine, are weight gain, nicotine cravings, depression, anxiety, anger, frustration, and irritability (National Cancer Institute). In “E-Cigarettes: Health and Safety Issue,” the symptoms of a person who quits smoking the electronic cigarette, which contains nicotine, are “When you stop using it, you can get withdrawal symptoms including feeling irritable, depressed, restless and anxious. It can be dangerous for people with heart problems. It may also harm your arteries over time” (Griffin). Like cigarette advertisements trying to sell their products, the e-cig ads convince smokers that their item is a better …show more content…
Now, cigarette ads include labels with warning signs, disturbing pictures of deceased unborn children, children with smoke formed into bags over their heads, people with amputated limbs, or pictures of gum and tooth decay. “Even if, as some enthusiasts claim, e-cigarettes can help a smoker quit, could it also entice young people to start?” (Are e-Cigarettes Safe?). Figure 3 contains an ad of a man smoking on a blu e-cig with the phrase ,“Why Quit? Switch To Blu”. This one ad out of many, surprisingly, contains a now required warning label at the bottom, warning pregnant or potentially pregnant consumers of the chance that their baby or reproductive system may be harmed. What some consumers don 't know, is that the e-cigarette owners are also the owners of the big tobacco cigarette companies. These companies clearly don 't want the smokers to quit smoking, but continue with what is argued as a “healthier”
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
...an be seen that they are a useful cessation technique- as stated previously 55% of people use e-cigarettes to quit. More research is needed into e-cigarettes to see if they are viable way to effectively stop smoking. There is a gap in research of long term effects of e-cigarettes due to e-cigarettes only being developed in 2004 4. Due to e-cigarettes only gaining popularity recently, few reliable studies with enough participants were able to be meta-analysed. It is also hard to give a reliable conclusion for this topic as there are different brands of e-cigarettes each containing varying concentrations of nicotine which wont change until they are regulated as medicinal products. At the moment the studies suggest that e-cigarettes are no better than other NRT’s. E-cigarettes could be a viable, useful and cost effective way to help reduce smoking- if they are regulated
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.
Over the last 50 years, smoking and the public image of smoking has changed dramatically. Americans have learned the harmful effects of smoking and have put a heavy disdain on the use of it. The number of new smokers has drastically dropped over the years and many that had previously smoked have stopped. Some have turned to electronic cigarettes as a safer way to intake nicotine. Over the years, smoking advertisements have changed drastically. Nowadays, tobacco advertisements are virtually non-existent in our society, but when they were abundant they depicted smoking as a cool and sophisticated activity. Today, smoking advertisements are shown by electronic cigarette companies. These companies emphasize the healthier lifestyle these products
There is quite a bit of controversy regarding the use of E-cigarettes. A known fact according to the CDC and data from the 2011 and 2012 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is that, “the percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who use e-cigarettes more than doubled from 2011 to 2012” (Bayless, 2014; Corey et al., 2013). The advertising and targeting of children by e-cigarette companies is evidenced by the large amount of advertising featuring celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, attractive packaging including devices that look like flash drives, and candy flavorings that appeal to children such as chocolate, mint, bubble gum, cherry, and watermelon, to name just a few (Bayless, 2014; Dotinga, 2014; Madigan, 2013; Hahn, Riker, & Brown, 2014; Johnson, 2014; Weskerna, 2010). Another concern is the rise in calls to Poison Centers for nicotine poisoning. In a study by Chatham-Stephens, Law, Taylor, Melstrom, Bunnell, Wang, Apelberg, & Shier (2014) between September 2010 and February 2014, e-cigarette exposure calls increased from one in September 2010 to 215 in February of 2014. Exposure were by inhalation, eyes, and skin with adverse effects that included vomiting, nausea, eye irritation, and a suicidal death caused by intravenous injection of the nicotine liquid used to refill e-cigarettes (Chatham-Stephens et al., 2014). E-cigarettes are not regulated or approved by the FDA, so there is no control over ingriedients or their concentration. The concern as stated by Fielding, a member of the American Public Health Association, “I’m particularly concerned that this could be a gateway drug” (Big US cities, 2014). E-cigarettes are sold in numerous businesses right here...
Cigarettes have become a national icon, as big as the likes of cooperating giants such as Coca-Cola, as people are familiar with the idea of smoking from such a young age, becoming so addicted and subservient to seeing the act as normalcy in modern day America. Therefore certain solutions are needed to, at the very least, help make this icon less harmful to this country’s health. Both online articles, “Are Herbal and ‘Natural’ Cigarettes Safer?” by Ennis Thompson Jr.’s and “Marlboro Introduces Vitamin-Infused Cigarettes” by The Daily Currant argue that the so called “healthy” or “natural” cigarettes actually have a few health benefits and are only just a way to slow down the dangers of smoking. The Daily Currant makes a valid argument through
Opposition to e-cigarettes. Despite e-cigarettes’ growing popularity in the U.S., many people, particularly health advocates do not support the sale and consumption of e-cigarettes in public. Many health advocates argued that e-cigarettes are neither safer nor healthier alternatives to conventional tobacco cigarettes. According to American Heart Association (2000), “There is no such thing as a safer cigarette”. Food Department Administration (FDA) analysis showed that e-cigarettes, which were extensively promoted as safer alternatives to traditional tobacco, are in fact just as hazardous or even more detrimental to health. FDA found that e-cigarettes contain some of the same toxic substances and carcinogens present in traditional tobacco cigarettes (FDA, 2009 as cited by Kuehn, 2009). Some of the leading brand e-cigarettes, such as NJoy and Smoking Everywhere contain detectable level of tobacco-specific carcinogen, nitrosamines. Furthermore, e-cigarettes by Smoking Everywhere were found to contain diethlyene glycol, a common ingredient in automotive antifreeze and break fluid ...
Many actions have been taken on vaping and cigarettes, such as only allowing people over or at the age of eighteen to buy the product and putting warning labels on products. The serious issue is there needs to be action applied to the fact that these products can kill a human being. There is a wide variety of policies trying to be passed for vaping and cigarettes. A vaping regulation is trying to pass making all vape companies to carry products similar to products back when vaping firs started. This could cause the vaping market crash, making people lose money, and most important jobs. Some actions should be taken on tobacco products because of the risk of getting cancer in it is high.
It is very hard to smoke anywhere nowadays without being subject to tons of criticism or bad looks. People struggle to quit smoking cigarettes because it becomes a thing to do on a regular basis, more like an addiction which they cannot stop doing. The electronic cigarette has a much better taste, still feels like a cigarette, and physically it is still doing the same motion as smoking a real cigarette. People also like the fact that they do not have clothes that smell like smoke afterwards and they can smoke it indoors if it is really cold out because there is no combustion therefore there is no smoke. Now this might sound a little lazy but it is very nice to be able to smoke the electronic cigarette anywhere, and think that is one of the reasons why it is such a successful tool to help smokers quit smoking. If smokers can smoke anywhere, it allows them to do that and get their mind off cigarettes as soon as possible so they can get back to what they usually do. The electronic cigarette lets smokers have the freedom to smoke anywhere they want because the cloud of smoke they see is actually vapor. The society have to understand that young kids can easily get addicted to cigarettes because their brains are not yet fully developed. Manufacturers don't call it "quitting smoking" but "switching" from cigarettes to e-cigarettes. Despite anecdotal evidence that e-cigs may help smokers quit, many antismoking advocates fear that what they're really doing is undoing the progress that's been made over the last half-century (“Radoing” par
I think cigarettes and Prescription drugs are dangerous to be marketed the way they are. Cigarettes in other countries show images of what happens to lungs, teeth, tongue and face when a person smokes cigarettes. Currently cigarettes in the U.S still have reinforcing images and trigger words to market cigarettes. Prescription drugs are also blasted on t.v commercials showing their benefit but covering their symptoms by using tiny disclaimer letters at the bottom including stating symptoms really fast at the end of the thirty second commercial. It makes a difference that these products are legal because they are able to market reach customers who might have never been reached before. I think it would be right to single them out because they
Experiencing the death of a loved one is never easy, especially when the cause is something self-inflicted, such as cigarettes. Imagine if that loved one was your parent or even worse, your own child. Now, imagine watching the demise and physical incapacities that transpire while you see them deteriorate right in front of you. Feel the anger that would coarse through your veins if you were to see an add that glamorized such deadly instruments, particularly once you realize that the areas being marketed are lower class. Cigarettes are legal killers that cripple many individuals and families alike. They are a highly addictive substance that benefit no one. I am against cigarettes in every capacity as I have dealt with the effects of it on a personal level. Cigarettes leave a distaste in the mouth literally and figuratively. I am also a firm believer that
Explorer and diplomats such as France's Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine was named) used it and popularized it. Tobacco was introduced to France in 1556, Portugal in 1558, Spain in 1559, and England in 1565 (History of Tobacco.). Tobacco was used for pipe smoking on large scale and triggered smoking since then (History of Tobacco.).
I think that e-cigarettes can be a good tool for some people in being able to help them cut back and hopefully quit smoking entirely. I think that this type of device does help smokers to be able to slowly wean themselves off of cigarettes by still having the familiar habit of bringing a cigarette to their mouth while they gradually lessen the amount of nicotine that they consume. I also feel though that because of the fun flavors available like bubble gum and bacon that this does create an enticement for kids and teenagers to want to try them, and this could lead to them adding the nicotine and thus becoming addicted. I have concerns over the health safety of e-cigarettes, yes they are probably much better than smoking actual cigarettes, but what about the vaping chemicals do they have health risks that are unknown to us at this time?
But unfortunately I have no choice in most public patios. One says passive smoking but I want rather call it involuntary smoking .
While in today’s times it is common knowledge that smoking is harmful and can lead to things such as lung cancer, that has not always been the case. The current day stigma behind smoking was not always there in earlier years. This is due to the way that smoking was handeled by major corporations. As stated in the article, during the 1980s and 1990s, cigarette smoking was advertised to preteens and teenagers. This caused a problem for adolescents, especially young women who may become pregnant. This is also the first step in the P.E.R.I.E. process illustrated in real time. The population began to see a potential problem develop. The idea was that if young women were being targeted by tobacco advertisers, they may be more likely to smoke during pregnancy and lead to health defects in their children. The case illustrates the etiology phase of the process by determining that the reason so many adolescents are smoking is due to the advertisements targeting them, and also the availability of