Essay On E-Cigarettes

Trying to quit smoking is one of the best things smokers can do for themselves. The effects of smoking can be extremely harmful to the body and bystanders in public areas. Some smokers feel that buying a “fake” cigarette will help them to quit that horrible habit, while others feel that if the cigarette is “only water vapor” it is not harmful to them whatsoever and they will never become addicted. Using these devices has many health concerns and a variety of different issues about them. On the rise today of a potential “fake” cigarette is called an electronic cigarette. An electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) is a cigarette-shaped device containing a nicotine-based liquid that has been vaporized and inhaled, and used to simulate the experience

- Harvard Health Blog). The dose of these compounds is typically smaller than found in “real” cigarette smoke, but the effects can be equally horrendous since the dose is still not zero. In several tests of e-cigarettes, there have been chemicals known to cause cancer and birth defects in first and secondhand e-cigarette vapor. In the United States, very few people who had never smoked classic cigarettes before had ever used e-cigarettes and the majority believed that e-cigarettes were less harmful than smoked cigarettes. E-cigarettes concern even many public health professionals for a variety of reasons. The first is that they may advance the use of nicotine and tobacco products for tobacco users who might otherwise quit. Increased motivation to quit is the reason for several people to use e-cigarettes. According to the Legacy Foundation, 7.2% of smokers who had quit returned to nicotine addiction via e‐cigarettes in 2012. One study, as stated from the American Lung Association, found that while most calls to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) involving e-cigarette liquid poisoning came from accidental ingestion of the e-cigarette or its liquid, about one-sixth of

E-cigs show just as effective as nicotine inhalers in reducing both craving and withdrawal effects. There are also studies showing that nicotine patches, gum, and lozenges will have the same effect on users who are trying to quit just as e-cigarettes do. Others believe as well that vapor toxicology under normal conditions of use is by far less problematic than that of conventional cigarettes. However, not mentioned in ads for e-cigarettes are the many hidden chemicals inside of them. The hidden chemicals can be dangerous and in some cases, even worse off than that of classic