Are e-cigarettes a safe alternative or a dangerous unknown?
One of the most recent issues in public health today concerns the damaging effects of cigarettes. The destructive effects of cigarettes have given birth to a popular alternative called vaping. The use of e-cigarettes could be good for the people who have failed to quit smoking. This fact is evident because it reduces the intake of the harmful products found in conventional cigarettes. While the use of e-cigarettes keeps on rising, anxiety about their lasting effects on human health has endured. This reality has resulted in several questions. Does the popularity of e-cigarettes present potential health risks? Are e-cigarettes a safe alternative or a dangerous unknown? This paper precisely
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An e-cigarette is a long tube that looks like a cigarette, pen, or pipe that produces a vapor for users to inhale. They can be re-used and are replaceable with cartridges while others are disposable (Paddock 1). Most liquids include flavoring and nicotine calculated in various measures, but not tobacco. The devices are of different forms such as e-hookah and vape pens and are distributed in the market as a safer choice to cigarettes. Therefore, they represent a rising section of the market for products that contain nicotine. However, the health impact of this new alternative product is unclear. This has attracted both the critics and advocates into an unending debate concerning the safety of the product to the users.
What are the known facts about e-cigarettes? They seek to resemble the usual cigarettes, but without necessarily burning tobacco. They are marketed to help reduce or quit smoking, and it is recorded that many people have found this helpful (Belluz 1). Regardless, a study reveals that e-cigarettes have a negative impact on the health of the users. Therefore, health professionals and authorities are aiming to tighten up regulations to dishearten young people from the use of this
Electronic cigarettes are more accessible to kids aged 18 and under. Today in the U.S there is a debate about cigarettes being outlawed. Although people in the U.S believe that e cigs should be outlawed because they are easier to access for kids under the age 18 they are causing kids to get hurt by e cigs; however some people might say E-cigs are enjoyable and are better than regular cigarettes.
Advice on the Risks of Nicotine Replacement Therapies for Smoking Cessation (e-cigarettes gum and patches) Are e-cigarettes better than other conventional therapies?
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.
Sandi is a former smoker, experienced that the vapor from the e-cigarettes satisfies the urge to inhale the “smoke” without the unpleasant taste that accompanies the traditional cigarette smoke. She also addressed the issue of difficulty of quitting after prolonged use of e-cigarettes. As an oral healthcare professional, Sandi thinks that e-cigarette smokers have less damaging effect on the oral tissue as opposed to traditional cigarettes. However, as a professional, Sandi does not recomends to her patients to use e-cigarettes nor any nicotine replacements as a solution to quitting smoking. She believes quitting “cold turkey” is the most effective solution. She often runs into resistance from patients when talking to the harmful effect of smoking. She emphasizes how nicotine effects blood vessels in the mouth and the whole body and causing constriction of blood vessels depriving cells from Oxygen. But really she feels that she cannot force her patients to quit only providing information to encourage to adopt healthy life stile. A closing, Sandi takes about her concerns that e-cigarettes have not been on the market long enough to determine if they are safe alternatives to other tobacco
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...
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?
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