Dangers of E-cigarettes

Dangers of E-cigarettes

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my little opportunity to welcome you to this auspicious speech about the dangers of e-cigarettes. For those who do not understand what the e-cigarette means, it is a long tube that seems like a cigarette. It also resembles a pipe, a cigar, or even a pen. In most cases, e-cigarettes are reusable as they have refillable or replaceable cartridges. However, some can throw away once they use it.  Many e-cigarettes have characteristics of mouthpiece or cartridge. They also have a heating element, rechargeable battery, or even electronic circuits. Therefore, as the smoker activates the heating element through a sensor which vaporizes the liquid solution or the flavored portion. Also though many people may see e-cigarette as a safer way to smoke, it is hazardous. The data reported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that there is an alarming rate in the number of e-cigarette related deaths. Many people have increasingly taken e-cigarettes since they first came into the Chinese market. The report regarding the smoking of cigarettes released in the year 2016 indicates that more than 3.2 percent of adults in America take e-cigarette. Furthermore, there is also an escalating rate of using e-cigarettes among the school-going youth in the United States of America. While e-cigarettes can be beneficial to other smokers, such as assisting some people in quitting smoking, its health risks outdo such benefits.

The majority of people engage in smoking as a ritual. Many smokers take e-cigarette because they see it as a ritual. Those who initially smoked other forms of cigarettes such as tobacco and bhang can easily engage in smoking e-cigarettes since they see it as a ritual. The smokers also see smoking as a way of giving himself or herself a pleasurable feeling. Therefore, according to them, smoking provides them a nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

Additionally, the majority of those who smoke e-cigarettes also do it because of addiction. An E-cigarette is highly addictive. When an individual uses it for the first time, he or she feels that he should continue smoking it. The nicotine contained in e-cigarette and other related vaping products can perpetuate an addiction, therefore, making it even harder to quit smoking.

In most cases, the teens engage in the smoking of e-cigarette out of pressure. According to many researchers, the majority of the youths in the U.S utilize vaping devices as the most commonly used form of nicotine. When kids see their friends engage in e-cigarette smoking, they also want to participate in the same. Some of them do not even realize that e-cigarette has nicotine as they assume the pods of e-cigarette only contain flavoring. They eventually end up becoming addicted to it.

E-cigarette smoking is dangerous to teens because it acts as an introductory product for the preteens and teens who finally engage in smoking other products that contain nicotine such as tobacco. After starting to smoke cigarettes, they feel like continuously smoking other products of nicotine that eventually harm their bodies. Because nicotine contained in the e-cigarette is addictive, it triggers changes in the brain of the adolescent individual. More importantly, the e-cigarette is hazardous to ladies who are pregnant as it adversely impacts the development of the fetus.

Moreover, an e-cigarette contains dangerous elements to the health of a smoker. It is because e-cigarette exposes a person’s lungs to various substances. The riskiest materials that the e-cigarette inflicts on a user’s lungs is the diacetyl, a chemical substance that causes irreversible lung diseases. When a person’s lung is unhealthy, it means that such a person is unable to breathe effectively. Therefore, he or she can succumb to fatal lung cancer disease at any time. Accordingly, there have reported cases of accidental swallowing and inhaling e-cigarette substances. Such scenarios have affected many youths who are first time users. The majority of the cases said about people who developed lung cancer indicate that they were using e-cigarettes. Chemical irritation linked to e-cigarettes happens when an individual continuously smokes e-cigarette. Symptoms such as shortness of breath and also chest pains related to e-cigarette smoking. Research shows that such symptoms graduate to more serious ones that adversely impact the effectiveness of lung functioning.

An E-cigarette is also dangerous because it can cause cancer. Some of the lung cancer relates to e-cigarettes. According to research, those who smoke e-cigarettes are riskier in developing cancer compared to non-smokers. It is because some substances found in e-cigarettes vapor causes lung cancer. Thus, many reported cases of lung cancer among the youths across the world relates to e-smoking. The e-cigarette also exposes a person to the same toxins contained in tobacco but higher quantities. Vapors have higher levels of toxicity compared to the usual way of smoking cigarettes. In addition to lung cancer associated with e-cigarettes, other forms of cancer caused by e-cigarette include stomach cancer, bladder cancer, and esophageal cancer. Some heart diseases are also associated with e-cigarette smoking. Those who use e-cigarette have a higher risk of developing heart-related diseases than those who do not smoke it. Even some of the respiratory diseases like emphysema that causes difficulty in breathing relates to continued e-cigarette smoking.  Research also demonstrates that those who share water pipe and vaping devices while smoking e-cigarette can suffer from infectious diseases. It is because sharing a water pipe with different people increases the risk of transferring infectious diseases from one individual to another.

The most important remedy to e-cigarette is teaching smokers about the dangers it contains. The smokers need to know that e-cigarette, just like any cigarette such as tobacco contains nicotine and other dangerous chemicals. The majority of people do not understand that e-cigarette can expose them to hazardous chemicals. Teaching them is sure of reducing their usage in different societies. Another valuable remedy is decreasing the exposure to an e-cigarette. When people get exposed to an e-cigarette, they tend to smoke it. However, when the exposure reduces, their smoking rate also decreases.  It is also of considerable significance to address peer pressure among teenagers. Peer pressure is a factor that results in a high standard of e-cigarette usage among youths. Teaching them the importance of not getting influenced by what their teenage colleagues do is a way of reducing e-cigarette usage among them. They need to know that when they take e-smoking as part of their living, it can adversely impact their lives. Thus, they need to control their behavior. Society needs to adopt guidance and counseling as a way of teaching the youths the right ways of living and expression. That will eventually reduce the e-cigarette smoking among them.

In conclusion, many people view e-cigarette smoking as non-dangerous to their health; however, just like any other form of cigarette smoking, e-cigarette results in health-related diseases and risks. E-cigarette causes addiction to smokers, which makes it hard to quit. E-cigarette smoking also brings diseases such as cancer, heart-related conditions, and other infectious diseases. As a remedy, people should know that it is e-smoking is highly dangerous and minimize exposure to it. Youths who are the significant smokers of e-cigarettes should also learn good behavior and avoid peer pressure to reduce the high rate of e-cigarette smoking.