Should Electronic Cigarettes Be Banned?

Tobacco has been around in the world for over 2.5 million years. It was not until a few hundred years ago when the tobacco industry decided to put these crops into use and conjure up tobacco products for the community. A popular tobacco product in society is cigarettes, as they are cheap and simple to use. As long as one is over eighteen, acquiring cigarettes is a straightforward process for a reasonable price, albeit the sin tax. It was not until recently when cigarettes became widely controversial due to the plant containing nicotine, an addictive drug to the body. Aside from containing nicotine and other hazardous chemicals to the body, cigarettes also cause a whole host of health implications

Today the biggest question is, “Are they harmful?” Electronic Cigarettes are being tested and thoroughly examined to identify the helpful and hazardous effects they may have. Most importantly, they are being compared to traditional cigarettes to determine whether or not they are a safe alternative for smokers. According to the Food and Drug Administration, there are trace amounts of toxic and carcinogenic ingredients found in several cartridge samples of e-cigarettes. The FDA tried to regulate them as drug delivery devices; however, a federal judge ruled in 2010 that it lacked such authority, so the FDA is currently moving to regulate them as tobacco products (Feldman, 2014).

People are lead to believe that electronic cigarettes do not contain tobacco and that they are safer than real cigarettes. Little do they know, electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigs, expose their inhalers to harmful and toxic gases that cause health problems and harm the lungs. In most cases the solvent in an e-cig is considered “food grading,” which means it should be safe enough to eat, but manufacturers are changing the configuration of the solvent so it contains both the flavoring and nicotine. As a person inhales, the flavored liquid flows through the e-cig and as it passes over hot coils the liquid changes into a gas. The more frequently an e-cig is used, the toxicity of the fumes increases. Nicotine is always added to the starting

In 2003 E-cigarettes were invented by Lik Hon in China and in just three short years they exploded worldwide (Hajek et al. 1). This topic is important because E-Cigarettes are sweeping the globe by providing millions of users a vapor, nicotine delivering device. Not only are they bringing in a new subculture called “vaping”, but also many questions on how they should be regulated (Gardiner 1). The users of E-cigarettes are widespread and can not be pinpointed to just one age, race, or even country, the users are everywhere. According to Etter and Bullen some users use e-cigarettes to help them quit traditional cigarettes and others use them to complement their tobacco use. However the greatest rise of e-cigarette use has come from adolescence, majority being teenagers who are not tobacco users (Etter and Bullen).

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

Electronic cigarettes are devices that allow users to inhale an aerosol containing nicotine or other substances. e-cigarettes are generally battery-operated and use a heating element to heat e-liquid from a refillable cartridge, releasing a chemical-filled aerosol. Hoverboards and Electronic Cigarettes both use lithium-ion batteries that are suspected to catch fire when overcharged. Hoverboards have caused 52 fires since December, burning down 2 homes. Malfunctioning electronic cigarettes, meanwhile, have caused dozens of people to suffer serious burns and disfigurement. Authorities think that cheaply made batteries are the problem. Researches haven’t yet fully discoverd if electronic ciggarettes are harmful or not, but they know that e-cigarette users don't breathe in the same kind of carcinogenic smoke and tar that conventional cigarette smokers do. Nicotine is still an addictive chemical linked to cardiovascular disease. One girl put in a new battery in hers like she has done many times, she pressed the activation button and it exploded causing a hole in her mouth and battery acid to go all over her body. Since hitting the U.S. market in 2007, e-cigarettes, which heat liquid nicotine and other ingredients into an inhalable vapor, have been touted as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes and a path to quitting smoking. But some lawyers and consumers say the $3.5 billion industry isn't doing enough to address a potential hazard: cheaply made lithium-ion batteries in the products that can unexpectedly explode. There have been many trials over the

Electronic cigarettes are devices, which deliver a nicotine containing vapor to the user. This popular new product, is entirely unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with little known public health effects. With no warning labels, most users think that vaping, (inhale/exhale vapor from electronic cigarette), is safe. Originally electronic cigarettes were intended to be used as a device that users would use to help them quite smoking. But instead not only do they keep people hooked on its use, but also appeal to the younger users. Once manufactures started adding flavoring to the e-juice, (liquid substance used in e-cigarettes), many people accused the companies of using these flavors to attract and appeal the teens. Unlike

Increasing smokes an E-cig of American college students under the age of 20 who have never smoked before. Until recently, grocery stores and tobacco markets did not have a strict law to ban them from selling E-cig to children under the age of 18. James Lauria a 32 year old had a burn from the first degree after the E-cig he was smoking blow up in his face (electronic cigarettes should be regulated, 2015). In 1963, Herbert A. Gilbert patented the first E-cig, whose produced Cigalike device to heat the nicotine resolution and create water vapor (electronic cigarettes should be regulated, 2015). But Hon Lik, a Chinese pharmacist, made the modern E-cig in 2003, to control the smoking desire (electronic cigarettes should be regulated, 2015). On other hand, there are many studies warn about the E-cig is harmful as the regular cig. Those studies explained tree categories who are unhealthiness, addiction, and youths.

For years, there have been studies to suggest that e-cigarette release toxic compounds. However, the source for such findings was recently discovered at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and it indicates that there is not a direct link to the source, but rather wide range of individual factors like temperature and age, for example, that differently affect the emission levels. Toxic chemicals like acrolein and formaldehyde are released from e-cigarettes which decomposes the two solvents (propylene glycol and glycerin) that are used in the vaporization of e-cigarettes. To find the ingredients used in the vapor, researchers compared two different e-cigarettes using gas and a liquid chromatography. They discovered that the puffs which are

creasing smokes an E-cig of American college students under the age of 20 who have never smoked before. Until recently, grocery stores and tobacco markets did not have a strict law to ban them from selling E-cig to children under the age of 18. James Lauria a 32 year old had a burn from the first degree after the E-cig he was smoking blow up in his face (electronic cigarettes should be regulated, 2015). In 1963, Herbert A. Gilbert patented the first E-cig, whose produced Cigalike device to heat the nicotine resolution and create water vapor (electronic cigarettes should be regulated, 2015). But Hon Lik, a Chinese pharmacist, made the modern E-cig in 2003, to control the smoking desire (electronic cigarettes should be regulated, 2015). On other hand, there are many studies warn about the E-cig is harmful as the regular cig. Those studies explained three categories who are unhealthiness, addiction, and youths.

“In a recent report, laboratory analyses carried out by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to find carcinogens and toxic chemicals in most of the electronic cigarettes tested with a single exception: about 1% of diethylene glycol (DEG) were detected in the liquid of one of the 18 samples, however this not represent a toxic quantity” (Caponnetto). Because electronic cigarettes use a vaporization process instead of a combustion process, the low temperature required by a e-cig device suggests that this device is unlikely to produce cigarette toxins. “Nicotine per se does not cause much risk when separated from inhaling cigarette smoke” (Caponnetto). The small amount of substances released when vaping do not attack the user's body with carcinogenic tar or toxins, that are usually associated with tobacco

Lately, vaping has come to be common these day and few minor businesses have advanced due to the increase in demand for electronic cigarette (Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2015). Even though the term safe doesn’t exist. Electronic cigarette contains low risk compared to regular cigarettes.

The popularity of alternative ways smoking like electronic cigarettes or vapor cigarettes is growing leaps and bounds with each passing days. Though no solid scientific or medical studies and data have been published yet, in support of the electronic cigarettes, but still it seems there are millions of takers worldwide.

E-Cigarettes are battery operated nicotine inhalers. (Neporent) Instead of a harmful chemical floating into the air, it is said to be just a “water vapor”. E-cigarettes contain many different fills. Some consist of vanilla flavored nicotine, chocolate flavored nicotine, and even as far as to making them taste like mountain dew without any nicotine. Although research shows that bystanders aren’t exposed to the secondhand smoke, they are still being exposed to the nicotine! (Keilman) The American Lung Association’s found the chemicals formaldehyde and acetone in the e-cigarette vapor that is exhaled. (Keilman) Should the use of e-cigarettes be allowed in a public smoke free zone?

Once again man is faced with the age old question to smoke or not to smoke. Today, I feel that isn’t the question that faces man. The question should be why smoke when one could vape? The use of battery-powered electronic cigarettes is growing across Europe and the United States because they allow users to inhale nicotine vapor without also ingesting tar and other cancer-causing substances present in traditional cigarettes (par. 2). Health experts are rightly worried that these devices might make it easy for teenagers to develop an addiction to nicotine, which can be toxic at high doses and impairs brain development in children. Lab tests by the F.D.A have also found that some electronic