Persuasive Essay On Vaping Vs Smoking

Vaping vs Smoking

Smoking has been a popular thing in culture for around 2000 years. People smoke and chew tobacco to get a “buzz” to feel relaxed, but among the teens an increasing amount have started to Vape because it is “not as bad”. While teen smoking and teen vaping both have similar health risks and effects. Smoking cigarettes has more nicotine, causing it to be more addictive and you are actually putting smoke and tar in your lungs, while vaping you are still getting the nicotine in various amounts, however you are smoking vapor rather than smoke.

Smoking has been a popular thing for around 2000 years. Smoking is when you burn tobacco, then inhale the smoke that it produces to feel a little more relaxed. R. Mermelstein from tobacco control states that “One reason why adolescents may not readily stop smoking is that they are dependent on nicotine, even before they become regular or daily smokers.” Teens are

easily addicted to the nicotine that is found in cigarettes because of the effect it has on them and because their brain has not fully developed yet, which will make them more dependant on the substance causing them to become a lifetime smoker. By becoming a lifetime smoker, you are significantly increasing your chances of having lung cancer and weakening your immune system causing you to become sick more frequent. These are some reasons why smoking may be harsher than vaping.
Vaping is a new form of smoking that has become increasingly popular among teens.

Vaping is the use of E-cigarettes to be an alternative to smoking that does not have as many health risks because you are not putting smoke in your lungs along with tar. The use of vapes still contain nicotine the highly addictive substance that is found in cigarettes along with other unhealthy substances that do lead to addictions. According Dr. Stanton Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California on its website, "If you are around somebody who is using e-cigarettes, you are breathing an aerosol of exhaled nicotine, ultra-fine particles, volatile organic compounds and other toxins." Teens have the idea that vaping is not as bad as smoking because when you smoke a cigarette you are inhaling smoke and tar and you do not get that from vaping, but researchers do not exactly know how bad vaping is because it is still a fairly new thing that has not been researched enough to know the exact effects it has on

people.
In conclusion, any form of smoking whether it is smoking or vaping is unhealthy and becomes addictive due to the nicotine that is found in each of them. While one you may not be inhaling actual smoke and tar, you do not exactly know what you are smoking in the other since it is a new thing and doctors have not found the exact effects that it has on people. Overall smoking is unhealthy in which ever form you choose to do it in, but the choice is yours on which way you choose to smoke.