Smokers’ assumption that e-cigarettes are a healthier option than common cigarettes may be completely wrong, according to recent studies. Ever since electronic cigarettes debuted in the United States’ market, many changed their smoking habit to ‘vaping’, which is the current term for smoking e-cigarettes.
Apparently, electronic smoking is way too large for people to pronounce, and vaping has that ‘cool’ ring to it. Yet most public health officials claim the e-cigarettes have been falsely advertised as healthier than cigarettes when they can share almost the same adverse effects. For starters, both e-cigarettes and cigarettes contain nicotine, which is known to be highly addictive for people using it.
Electronic nicotine devices (ENDS) have gained major popularity nationwide because they’re advertised not only as a healthier choice than cigarettes but also a way for people to leave cigarettes for good. What people ignores is that ENDS still contain nicotine, and even though nicotine levels are likely to be less in the e-cigarette, people can still get hooked to ENDS.
In addition, the electronic nicotine devices also contain several chemicals that could be harmful to the user’s health, as well as for the people in their surroundings. The Food and Drug Administration analyzed ENDS in order to determine what properties are contained in the cartridges of the vaping device. Amazingly, FDA researchers found low levels of nicotine in all but one of the devices they tested.
From 18 ENDS’ cartridges analyzed for their active components, 17 were found to have nicotine levels, disproving e-cigarette manufacturers that claim their products are nicotine-free. What’s more, the most advertised upside of ‘vaping’ is the manufacturers’ allegation that e-cigarettes can help reduce the need for smoking normal cigarettes is now being considered a myth.
Uncovering the myths about e-cigarettes
According to the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, ENDS are still not confirmed to helping smokers to quit their smoking habit. This presents a national threat to smokers, as they’re buying a product supposed to help them quit smoking, and what consumers actually do is buying both ENDS and cigarettes.
The American Lung Association has expressed their concern in the matter, as they released a report claiming consumers use e-cigarettes and conventional cigarettes simultaneously. According to the report from ALA, almost 80 percent of people across the United States who used ENDS also ended up smoking normal cigarettes.
Additionally to false advertisement, the excessive consumption of vaping devices made lawmakers push the legal age to purchase ENDS to 21. The restrictions published on March 10 in Preventive Medicine included the increase in legal ages for purchasing electronic devices including ENDS, vape pens, and hookah pens. So there’s no doubt that vaping has proven to be a popular trend among Americans. Still, the FDA has not approved any of the electronic nicotine devices, and won’t do it until they meet health standards that can be successfully measured.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
I used to spend $3,000 a year smoking a carton a week. My cost of ingredients for a year supply of e liquid is $30. That would be 8 cents a day. I feel better. I’m going to need the money I save just in case I live longer. Today I could smoke a cigarette with no riske of relapse because vaping is s superior experience.
The Tobacco Age is OVER. Get over it.
To all you folks who benefit from tobacco taxes, go to hell.
I was vaping for months and I felt like nothing happened, I was still poisoning myself. It turned out to be right after I got diagnosed with emphysema. I quit then with “simpleguided smoking plan” and I’m handling it great.
Public Health England(PHE) is Britain’s CDC. PHE released a review of over 180 e-cigarette studies in August 2015 and is now recommending the very safe e-cigarette be used as a smoking cessation device. PHE found that e-liquid devices present no short term harm to the user and expect there to be no long term harm. They found no harm to bystanders. PHE has asked that demonizing campaigns such as the American Lung Association’s stop. Smokers that would benefit from the very safe e-cigarette are wrongly believing them to be as dangerous as tobacco cigarettes.
18 ENDS’ cartridges analyzed; that is instant BIAS toward vaping. As other posters have said, there is a lrage majority of us whom buy ENDS that do no use cartridges at all, and we rebuild our wics. If you want to examine the vaping, look at the growing trend of rebuild systems, and the individual e-juices. Look at the devices like the Kanger Kbox Mini, which uses no cartridge.
There are significant differences in the devices used to vape, and to label the entire vaping community on cartridge based ENDs is irresponsible and bias. You are testing a small segment of a larger population, and in result are initiating scare tactics, similar to the anti-vaxxers..
This is a pretty biased story. It is entirely possible to have nicotine free e-liquid. The idea that it’s not possible is a fallacy. I make my own liquid, and I could simply not put it in the recipe if I wanted. I quit smoking cigarettes 2 1/2 years ago, and I vape at 6 mg of nicotine. I’m not trying to quit, but I enjoy vaping much more than I smoking a cigarette. On top of this, I also know exactly what I am putting in to my liquid since I research all of my ingredients before using them. Try and do that with cigarettes. This is just another scattershot story at e-cigarettes trying to demonize them without having any real hard facts. The FDA is a joke if they are going to keep denying vaping but let cigarette companies keep putting rat poison and fiberglass in their products.