The replacement of tobacco cigarettes with e-cigarettes are great ideas to save people to a large extent from the harmful effects of smoking tobacco. The use of e-cigarettes has been increasing rapidly day by day. However, a billion dollar questions are- “are e-cigarettes harmful to health?”, “What are its health effects?” People have a misconception that e-cigarettes are harmless, but this does not hold true.
1. Chances of drugs addiction
Did you know that e- cigarettes have become a gateway towards addiction to smoking and other drugs addictions? It is found from research that e- cigarettes users gradually started smoking tobacco cigarettes later. Many non-smokers, after trying for e-cigarettes have been addicted to smoking gradually. Even many of them started to switch on towards tobacco cigarettes slowly. Consequently, this will lead to various smoking and drugs-related health hazards to people.
2. Effects to children
Nowadays, e- cigarettes are available in more than hundreds of flavors. Availability of e- cigarettes in different flavors like strawberry, milkshake, pizza and others have attracted children towards smoking e-cigs. Many children under 18 are found to be purchasing and using cigarettes. Once they get addicted, it may turn out ways for them for adult smoking. Strict rules to ban selling for children under 18 has been a matter of major concern.
3. Cancer risk
Earlier this year, the New England Journal of Medicine found much higher concentrations of formaldehyde in e-cigarettes than in regular cigarettes, leading to five to 15 times the cancer risk. If the e-cigarette companies cares about public health, they should welcome such research. Thus, e-cigs might lessen the chances of cancer than regular cigarettes. But it is also not risk-free.
4. Nicotine affects
People might not be aware that e- cigarettes too contain nicotine. Nicotine is the active ingredient in tobacco and makes up 1.23% to .15% each cigarette. Meanwhile, nicotine levels in e-cigarettes vary from 0.6% to 5%.like other, E-cigarettes with more or less presence of nicotine elements, do have bad health effects of lungs cancer, illness, and other dangerous diseases.
5. Pollution
The bystander to the smoker will have lesser effects than that of tobacco cigarettes. However, it is not completely risk-free to surrounding people. E-cigarettes do lead to air pollution. This, of course, has led to pollution-related disease and have bad effects on health the smoke produced from vaping e-cigarettes affects the surrounding atmosphere.
The above-given points are major effects of e- cigarettes. Like tobacco cigarettes, they too lead to various kinds of cancers, heart diseases, brain affect, illness and other health effects. The difference is that regular smoking has far lesser effects than that of tobacco cigarettes.
On the whole, e-cigarettes help a lot for traditional cigarettes smoking from health hazards. At the same time, it does have lots of side effects to others. They are better than normal cigarettes but not harmless.
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