Smoking And E-Cigarettes

No Smoking in non-smoking designated areas In discussions of smoking electronic-cigarettes, or e-cigs, in designated smoking areas, one controversial issue has been that the vapor coming from the e-cigs does not cause damage to a person’s health. On the other hand, the vapor coming from the e-cigs contends quite an overwhelming amount of damage to a person’s health. Others even maintain that smoking e-cigs help people with a smoking problem stop smoking. My own view is that, although e-cigs help people stop smoking, they have been proven to cause the same amount of damage as a tobacco cigarette would; therefore people with e-cigs should stick to smoking in smoking designated areas. Although the electronic cigarettes help minimize the tobacco
addicted smokers, this should not be seen as a reason to allow the e-cig smokers to smoke the e-cigs in non-smoking areas. The minimal harm that the e-cigs have on the smoker takes time to actually take effect but over time there will be serious consequences to prolonged use of e-cigs. Not only do the e-cigs cause damage due to prolonged use, but the e-cigs’ popularity among the youth has greatly increased due to the increasing variety of flavors added to the e-cigs. The e-cigs’ manufacturer produces the nicotine, which is put into the e-cigs without flavor. The companies that sell the e-cigs add flavorings that have become appealing to the youth, such as bubble-gum, cotton candy and other flavorings that would sound appetizing. Although the e-cigs have one positive reason to use them, which is that they help stop smoker, Laura Crotty Alexander would only rely on the e-cigs to help smokers and does not consider them safe. As the prominent pulmonologist at San Diego’s Veteran’s Affairs Hospital, Laura Crotty Alexander puts it, “I don’t like to use the word ‘safe’ with e-cigarettes, but I do tell my patients that they might be better off if they switched from regular cigarettes to e-cigarettes” (A 229). In other words the only thing that Crotty trusts the e-cigs are good for is to help smokers stop. The popularity of e-cigs has grown among celebrities therefore growing amongst teens as well.
The teens in 2014 have fallen victims to the multi-flavored electronic cigarettes trap, where they were persuaded to try the new flavors that the e-cigs came in. The vapors from the e-cigs deplete the lungs’ walls, making it a semi-permeable entrance letting in outside substances that will, later in the future, cause deadly harm. E-cigarettes first appeared in the U.S. market in 2007, designed to help tobacco addicts eliminate their smoking addiction. Recent research, however, indicates that vaping does not boost quit rates [in the smokers’ population] (SN Online: 3/24/14). The only safe and possible purpose for the e-cigs was to help smokers quit but as a result the e-cigs weren’t even helpful with that either. The most dangerous place that an e-cig can be is in the hands of a teenager states Mitch Zeller, director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Md. The nicotine vapor from the e-cigs not only helps deplete the long walls but it also plays a role in the lung inflammation process. As the prominent student at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Irina Petrache puts it, these exposures caused increased oxidative stress and resulted in a buildup of inflammatory cells in the lungs of the mice. We were surprised at how quickly we saw this inflammation (Online
11/18/15).