The CDC has found that cigarettes have over 7,000 harmful chemicals. If you know swimming in a river full of chemicals is bad for you, why would you inhale them?
Cigarettes, ecigs, and vapes have been on an upward trend in recent years. No one really seems to care about their own health; they just do it to take the stress away. They’re just causing more stress for them later on in life when they start having withdrawal effects and living off one lung.
Grown adults aren’t the only ones smoking either. The FDA found that about 8% of high schoolers use e-cigarettes. That means people from the ages 14 and up use them – that’s a kid ruining their health. Some vapes contain as much nicotine in them as a whole pack of cigarettes. One singular vape holds the same amount of nicotine in it as a whole pack.
Ecigs were introduced in 2007, around the same time that social media was on the rise. The influence people on these platforms hold is crazy nowadays. If someone with a high following is vaping and posts themselves, what do you think some of the followers are going to do? And that’s when the addiction starts.
As mentioned before, the CDC has found that cigarettes have over 7,000 harmful chemicals in them. They have heavy metals such as nickel, tin, lead etc. You’re inhaling things like that each time you smoke, these tiny particles get inhaled deep into your lungs. Some e cigs contain a chemical called formaldehyde, which is used in taxidermy. Formaldehyde is used in a number of things such as preservatives in medical labs, mortuaries, it’s also in the ingredients in resin used for building materials like plywood and particleboard’s.
Vaping is bad and it always will be. There is little to no benefit of smoking/vaping. But you can’t just tell someone to quit and then expect them to put it down. It’s a process and many relapse because of how hard it is to get off those substances. The only way I see a change happening is if the government starts making these substances illegal or harder to get.
Vaping is a Growing Problem
By Joshua Colon ‘27
The CDC has found that cigarettes have over 7,000 harmful chemicals. If you know swimming in a river full of chemicals is bad for you, why would you inhale them?
Cigarettes, ecigs, and vapes have been on an upward trend in recent years. No one really seems to care about their own health; they just do it to take the stress away. They’re just causing more stress for them later on in life when they start having withdrawal effects and living off one lung.
Grown adults aren’t the only ones smoking either. The FDA found that about 8% of high schoolers use e-cigarettes. That means people from the ages 14 and up use them – that’s a kid ruining their health. Some vapes contain as much nicotine in them as a whole pack of cigarettes. One singular vape holds the same amount of nicotine in it as a whole pack.
Ecigs were introduced in 2007, around the same time that social media was on the rise. The influence people on these platforms hold is crazy nowadays. If someone with a high following is vaping and posts themselves, what do you think some of the followers are going to do? And that’s when the addiction starts.
As mentioned before, the CDC has found that cigarettes have over 7,000 harmful chemicals in them. They have heavy metals such as nickel, tin, lead etc. You’re inhaling things like that each time you smoke, these tiny particles get inhaled deep into your lungs. Some e cigs contain a chemical called formaldehyde, which is used in taxidermy. Formaldehyde is used in a number of things such as preservatives in medical labs, mortuaries, it’s also in the ingredients in resin used for building materials like plywood and particleboard’s.
Vaping is bad and it always will be. There is little to no benefit of smoking/vaping. But you can’t just tell someone to quit and then expect them to put it down. It’s a process and many relapse because of how hard it is to get off those substances. The only way I see a change happening is if the government starts making these substances illegal or harder to get.
Sources:
1.https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/e-cigarettes/health-effects.html
2.https://digitalmedia.hhs.gov/tobacco/educator_hub/vaping_101/vaping_facts
3.https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/helping-teens-quit/talk-about-vaping/conversation-guide#while-youre-talking