Cigarette has been an essential stress-relieving tool to many people, even with the health risks and environmental damages cigarette have. In the past three years, electronic cigarette has been taking over on cigarette. Altria (Tobacco producing company) and BluCigs (Electronic Cigarette Company such as “Vapors”) have been in conflict about the health risks and environmental damages cigarette have caused to our planet. Despite the risks cigarette is causing. While the health risks in tobacco cannot be eliminated, Altria is working on reducing the health risks on their products by making it less harmful to smokers. Both companies agree and recognize the risks of smoking and do not encourage anyone to smoke or to discourage anyone from quitting. …show more content…
A company known as BluCigs first developed electronic cigarette in 2001 in Beijing, China. After the death of his father from lung cancer, the pharmacist Hon lik the inventor was a smoker himself. Since then, BluCigs has introduced electronic cigarette as a new class of smoking alternative to the world’s market. As of 2012, tobacco smokers in the UK have lowered from 60% to 40%, while “electronic cigarette users have increased from 700,000 in 2012 to 2.6 million in 2015”(Healy). The company main goal is to lower the rate of tobacco smokers and the rate of people getting harmed from the tobacco smoke surrounding them. “With the electronic cigarette it was essentially a normal cigarettes although a lot safer, naming it “Ruyan” which means “like smoke” “(Healy 1). Smoking normal cigarette not just harmful for the smoker itself, but also the people surrounding who ever is smoking with second hand smoking, especially children. BluCigs does not have these downsides of second hand smoking. In addition, the electronic cigarette actually smells good in a way the does not harm the people surrounding the smoker. Today, BluCigs offer the experience of smoking traditional cigarettes without the smell, tobacco smoke, and
Electronic cigarettes have been around for about a decade. No one is sure of what havoc they can cause yet because of how new they are in existence. Throughout the past years more and more issues have been arising from this product that was originally assumed to be harmless. Now we are faced with the question are they really as safe as we thought or should increase investigation to see what they are really capable of. So far researchers have discovered many issues with the electronic cigarettes and every month more and more issues begin the surface the air. From explosion to toxic material. These issues will not only affect their
The conclusion is that due to the amount of time the “e-cig” or the vape pens have been on the market more research is required to look at its short and long-term safety effects on a smoker's health. The use of second generation vaporizers considerably reduce cigarette consumption without causing significant side
A cigarette has been an essential stress-relieving tool to many people even with the health risks and environmental damages cigarette is causing. However, in the past three years, the electronic cigarette has taken over on regular cigarette production. “People all over the world are making that switch from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes” (Healy 1). Electronic cigarette has been taking over in the past couple of years because of its positive reputation among the society that it tastes better, smells better, and less harmful to the smoker and the surroundings. However, not many have been educated about the electronic cigarette and its benefits toward the environment and human’s health. Because of the environmental damages and the health
are drastically increasing in popularity. As the popularity in e-cigarettes rises, so are the uncertainties the e-cigarette has on public health. While e-cigarettes, also known as vapes, are likely to be safer than tobacco cigarettes, the long term health effects are unknown at this moment. Scientists have been conducting studies in order to catch up with the e-cigarettes rise in popularity, but it is not clear yet whether it will result in end of smoking sensation or become a temporary setback towards the goal of quitting the need for nicotine for good. Because e-cigarette products are relatively new, there has not been any solid findings on the negative
Cigarette has been a topic of debate ever since its existence. Whether it’s the health issues of cigarettes or the negative impact of cigarette advertisement, it has been in our culture for the longest time. Recently, a divergent of cigarette called E-Cig had entered the market and have seen some unexpected success. In 2014, studies showed that electronic cigarette revenue has topped more than 500 million US dollar. With this huge industry appearing out of seemingly nowhere, many people has begun to question its health and safety effects on us, specifically is E-cig better than normal cigarette?
Four hundred years ago, tobacco was the first money-making crop in North America. Pipes and cigars were in demand and they are still on the market today, but it is not as popular as back in 1600. In 1800, cigarettes became popular up to this day. Cigarettes come in different brands, flavors, and strength of nicotine. Health organizations across the globe have fought many battles against cigarette smoking due to health risks. Nicotine patches, nicotine pills, and nicotine gums are just a few of the alternatives that doctors prescribe to smokers to help prevent the urge of smoking. However, more people are finding electronic cigarettes (e-cig) more comforting, helpful, and because it is a trend, many non-smokers started using e-cig. E-cig is a handheld battery operated device that vapors liquid that is composed of propylene glycol, glycerin, nicotine, and flavorings. A person who uses e-cig is usually called “vaper”. Despite the high increase of the number of e-cig vapers, the safety and efficacy remain unclear.
In recent years, the use of e-cigarettes, which are known as electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), has increased dramatically all over the world. It is believed by many that smokers are using ECs as an alternative way of smoking tobacco which have impacts on public health. While a diversity of definitions of the term e-cigarettes have been proposed, this essay will use the definition provided by Siobhan (2013), devices which permit smokers to inhale nicotine by evaporated liquid which be flavoured without burning tobacco. Furthermore, public health is about helping, protecting and improving the health communities from diseases threats by education, creating laws and doing researches. In this essay, the abbreviation ECs will be used to
The decision between the use of e-cigarettes and real cigarettes is an answer that can affect your life and your body during its progression. During the experiments done scientists tested how e-cigarettes affect the body and how well it is seen by the general population of physicians. The first experiment done on smokers using 14-37 packs a year, switching to e-cigarettes, showed that these people began decreasing the amount of packs they smoked by 22% in week 12 of the study and about 13% in one year. The next experiment measured the amount of people in a set group who have ever used an e-cigarette. The results showed about 9% of people said they have used an e-cigarette and about 1% said they have used and stopped using e-cigarette. The next experiment showed cytotoxicity of e-cigarettes and if mice developed any lung issues at various intensities. The use of intense e-cigarettes showed that the mice had much more CRV than the control group of mice, leading to the verdict that e-cigarettes could have a harmful affect on humans too. These results show how e-cigarettes are used between the population and who is more likely to come in contact with the product. Also, the results show that the e-cigarettes affect the human body just like regular cigarettes do.
Smoking is an addiction that risks one’s health which in turn can lead to death. As time advances, both smokers and non-smokers have begun understand the harm in this deadly habit as it doesn’t only affect the smokers, but anyone who encounters second-hand smoke. Since people have become aware of the health risks of smoking, cessation tools such as nicotine replacement therapy were invented to help cigarette smokers terminate their desires to smoke. As technology improves, smoking tools are created, like the electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) that was invented in 2003 (Rahman, Hann, Wilson, & Worrall-Carter, 2014). Electronic cigarettes can deliver low doses of nicotine to ease withdrawal symptoms. Furthermore, as electronic cigarettes increase in popularity the question arises if these devices can be used for smoking cessation purposes like nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). After discussing the topics of e-cigarettes and smoking cessation, one will conclude that electronic cigarettes can be compared to nicotine replacement therapy as a successful quitting method. Furthermore, the use of electronic cigarettes can be an effective method of smoking cessation.
Sensible people are always sorting out ways to get rid of bad habits and smoking has undoubtedly proven to be one of the most harmful habits one can possess. When it comes to the death toll cause by diseases due to smoking like cancer diseases, lung or respiratory diseases, scientists have already taken the inititative to counter this very issue and have come up with a remarkable alternative to smoking i.e Electronic cigarettes.
Electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, were invented in 2004 by Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik following his father’s death from lung cancer (CASAA, 2012). With the intention of offering a safer alternative to traditional tobacco, e-cigarettes quickly emerged in other markets around the world including Europe in 2006 and the United States (U.S.) by 2007 (TCLC, 2011). The device works via battery to heat liquid nicotine and an atomizer then turns the liquid into a vapor which is inhaled by the user. E-cigarettes, now readily available in convenience stores, mall kiosks and gas stations, come in many forms ranging from disposable cigarette-like devices to pen-like refillable devices with flavors such as bubblegum, chocolate and mint (TCLC, 2011; NIH, 2014). The speed with which e-cigarettes have gained popularity across the U.S. has placed manufacturers, tobacco control lobbyists and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at odds regarding the regulation of sales, marketing and use of the devices (TCLC, 2011).
Electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that are created to provide flavor, nicotine, and other chemicals. The device then converts the various chemicals into aerosol which is inhaled by users (“Electronic Cigarettes”, 2015). Even though many e-cigarettes are produced to resemble traditional cigarettes, some of them look like daily items such as USB devices and pens. These devices have attracted considerable attention in the recent past since users can smoke them virtually anywhere. The significant attention and use is attributed to claims that
In 2003, Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik developed the electronic cigarette: a product designed to release aerosol by heating a liquid cartridge containing propylene glycol, glycerol, flavoring additives, and/or nicotine (Grana et al. 6). E-cigarettes use a plastic tube and an electronic heating element to stimulate a liquid cartridge. A nicotine-containing vapor, with few harmful elements, is released from the cartridge and inhaled by the user. (Franck et al. 2).
Electronic smoking devices (ESDs) popularly known as E-cigar or e-cigarettes is a recent discovery in the smoking industry designed to mimic the art and feel of conventional tobacco smoking. This devices are metallic or plastic tubes with a cartilage filled with a volatile e-liquid or e-juice that is vaporized through a battery powered heating element when a user inhales. However e-cigarette devices do not contain tobacco but they provide nicotine as a vapor that is inhaled in the aerosol as opposed to traditional tobacco cigarettes that burn tobacco to produce nicotine in the smoke after combustion. The e-cigar devices are designed to operate as the convention tobacco cigarettes. When a user inhales a battery powered device heats up the e-liquid
The proof of concept study shows “that sustained 55% of the participants with the overall 88% fall in number of cigarettes smoked per day” and the information from retailers of the electronic device shows that they have sold thousand hundred device have been sold and none has complained about the adverse effects(1). Based on this information we cannot generalize that the electronic cigarette usage will be beneficial. In the second patient, may be because of the distress in the throat along with dry cough would have led her to quit the habit. In case of third patient, since he had a history of COPD would have quit the habit in fear of complications, it may not necessarily be due to electronic cigarettes.