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Persuasive Essay On Smoking

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While baby boomers and a few generations before are hooked on cigarettes millennials and generation Z have a whole new addiction. While tobacco cigarettes used to be something that was ‘cool’ to do, the new age version of this is vaping. Over time our technology has increased and scientists came up with an alternate solution to cigarette smokers addictions. Scientists have found a way to infuse nicotine into flavored oil (AKA e-juice) and use an atomizer to heat that to its boiling point which creates a flavored vapor with nicotine in it. Although this is a much healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes, there are definitelty some health risks that this new product presents.Scientists created an alternative, and with a lack of research or attention to research in media, many teens have turned to vaping. Vaping and using e-cigarettes is harmful to your body in many ways. Vaping includes risk of other lung issues, exploding atomizers can risk lives, and faulty vapes are extremely dangerous. THey also include risks of addiction to nicotine, and extremely harmful chemicals you are taking into your body. Many teenagers are fascinated by the incredible “clouds” that vaping can create but are unaware of the many health risks.according to science news for students, in their article, “Vaping May Be Harmful to Lungs”, “Chemicals in e-cigarettes can damage lung tissue, provoking inflammation. That damage can reduce the ability of the lungs to keep out germs and other harmful substances, new studies show.” This also means reduced sports performance. If your lungs arent working right or have decreased function, you have decreased ability to run. Vaping also causes Popcorn lungs aka bronchiolitis obliterans. According to the american lung association in the article titled, “ Popcorn Lungs: A Dangerous risk of flavored E- cigarettes” Popcorn lungs Is a harsh disease that can cause coughing and wheezing. It also causes shortness of breath, similar to COPD. Popcorn lungs is caused by the chemical diacetyl, which used to be in a lot of foods and artificial butter flavorings until many factory workers got popcorn lung because of inhaling the diacetyl. Since then this has been removed from most (if not all)

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