Arguments Against E-Cigarettes

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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 ...

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