A Summary Of Electronic Cigarette Smoking

The easy access to tobacco products in the state before the new law was getting teens hooked on the drug. Everyone by now has heard of a vaporizer or an e-cigarette. When they first came out with them they were selling these at malls and advertising them as "safe". They had people smoking inside and in front of minors. This was all until recent research stating that it is just as bad as smoking other tobacco products. According to Gitau, teenagers who used e-cigarettes by the time they started ninth grade are more likely to smoke other traditional forms of smoking like, hookahs, cigarettes, and cigars, soon in the future. (Gitau. 2015.) As stated by the American Medical Association in Gitau's article, 30.7 percent of teens who smoke e-cigarettes

end of smoking more traditional tobacco products within 6 months. This compares to only 8.1 percent of teenagers who started smoking traditional tobacco products without using e-cigarettes first. (Gitau. 2015.) How are these young teenagers gaining access to e-cigarettes and other tobacco smoking products? We may never know the real answer for every person, but there is a suspicion that they are purchasing it from students they know who are 18 years of age or people under 18-years-old were using fake identification to purchase the products. At 18, people can still appear too young. In my opinion, a 16-year-old looks very similar to an 18-year-old, but a 21-year-old usually look a lot younger than a 16-year-old. Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Merced came to a conclusion that banning smoking from the workplace and raising taxes avert teenagers and young adults from starting smoking. The study followed a group of 12 through 18-year-olds for 11 years. If there was a 100 percent smoke-free environment around the group of teenagers, it reduced the number of teenagers smoking by one-third, lowering the number of new smokers dramatically. (Smoke-free zones. 2015.)