Smoking Tobacco Products and Electronic-cigarettes

Jennifer jean a Registered nurse that has experienced the effects of traditional cigarettes especially on some of her older patients, believes that the electronic cigarettes will eventually end up being like the traditional cigarettes. The traditional cigarettes were once believed to be one hundred percent safe until they did research and investigation and then and all the different health issues began to arise in the smokers.There will soon be ads against the use of the electronic cigarettes just they what they currently have to haalt traditional cigarette smoking.

One of my first memories in the United States was taking a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) class. I was in sixth grade and a top student, as talking about drugs and alcohol and the way they affect us was fascinating to me. This is why, the following year, I volunteered to become a peer educator in Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U). For a couple of years, I gave presentations to young students which included facts, demonstrations, and games, to spread the knowledge that tobacco is harmful and that staying away from smoking prolongs life expectancy and increases the quality of life. It should come as no surprise, then, that I consider myself a big proponent of staying tobacco-free and encouraging others to quit smoking as a great way to promote health. I remember watching my mom and sister as they took part in their nightly ritual of smoking a few cigarettes to unwind. “Did you know that a main component of cigarettes is used as rocket fuel?” I would ask them, as I opened the window and they stared back at me blankly. “We know, we know” was the answer every time. I knew that convincing them to quit was no easy task, but I was committed. Day after day, I proudly stated a new fact about the evils of smoking. Finally one day, they quit. At first, they attributed it to the cost. Since we had just immigrated to the United States, the cost of cigarettes was simply not something they could afford. I didn’t believe it. I proudly

Teens are smoking e-cigs and something needs to be done. One “pod” promises the amount of nicotine equal to an entire pack of conventional cigarettes. E-cigs are easy to hide and come in a variety of flavors. The Food and Drug Administration decided to hold off on implementing an already finalized rule that would regulate e-cigarettes. Postponing a regulation on e-cigs is a mistake.

The FDA is going to kill a industry of young and old entrepreneurs. They are trying to pass bills to ban Electronic cigarettes also known as "vapes". Vape culture has help hundreds of tobacco user to quit nicotine and prevent them from putting the hundreds of cancer causing chemicals found in tobacco.

For as long as e-cigarettes have been around the market of cigarettes alike, the controversy of whether or not e-cigs should be regulated from advertisement has been alive almost as much as the light of electric cigarettes themselves. To add on to this debate myself, e-cigarettes are bad for the public and should therefore not be advertised on television, radio, or other forms of media devices. These advertisements can influence minors to try e-cigs, influence use of nicotine, and defies the purpose of regulations on cigarettes in general. E-cigarettes are bad for the health of an average human being, and with the advertisement of e-cigs, it influences the people to inject themselves with the many poisonous, harming chemicals in e-cigarettes

It is great that Florida legislation proposed a bill to include e-cigarettes and vaping into their smoking ordinance. I am a hospice nurse and wonder what the effect will be on people who choose to use e-cigarettes as opposed to regular cigarettes. Both contain nicotine. So I agree that using a preventative measure by revising the smoking ordinance will protect public health. Unfortunately, it will probably be many years before we know about the harm and danger that come from e-cigarettes and vaping.

In an OP-ED written by Sally L. Satel, M.D for the New York Times she discusses how vaping is “a public health revolution in waiting.” but might not take off. The paper is written largely to the general audience but more focused on those who are pro-electronic cigarettes with a larger conversation on how the market needs to be regulated by the government to keep the people who choose to consume vapor (whether it does or does not contain tobacco) safe. While the paper seems to be largely pro-electronic cigarette Satel does state some very clear issues with the market over all. “Smokers are barraged with news about inaccurate labeling, shoddy counterfeits and poorly made e-cigarettes that emit toxins and cancer-causing chemicals in vapor. And to the frustration of smokers, public health experts and, yes, manufacturers, the Food and Drug Administration, which has not yet set up sensible regulations, is making the

As stated by Eleanor Roosevelt, “One 's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” Everybody has a myriad choices in life. Some choices are better than others, and some are the worst choices one could have possibly chosen. The choices of one may work in one’s favor, or one’s choices may work in contrariety of one’s goals altogether. Electronic cigarettes, also called e-cigarettes or e-cigs, are an alternative choice to smoking actual cigarettes. Whether e-cigarettes should be regulated is a controversial topic among the people of the world today. A few people withhold the beliefs that electronic cigarettes should not be regulated as regular cigarettes are. It is possible that they believe that the regulation will lead to the prohibition or cease of smoking wholly. However, speaking as a candor person, one may say that these people are blind to the potential harms that the lack of regulation could create and that the lack of regulation may actually be causing electronic cigarettes to work in opposition of the purpose they are mostly used for. E-cigarettes are proven to not to have the same detrimental effects as regular cigarettes, however they are potently harmful, with different and serious consequences. The regulations would not be banning electronic cigarettes; the regulations are working to protect the health and well-being of everyone.

Smoking is a very bad habit for some people. Some people use vapes instead of smoking cigarettes. Vape is another word for E-Cig. Some people don’t like to smoke tobacco, so they often get an E-Cig. People should not use vape because of the health problems. Vape is bad for the environment and your health, so you should not vape.

The use of tobacco is a very controversial topic here in the United States. The harmful side effects of tobacco are well known and consequently, many believe that it should be outlawed. Though this has not yet occurred, constant regulations on the industry and

The lack of regulation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on electronic cigarette products is creating a desire for state and local governments to enact laws aimed to address their usage (Balakit, 2014). In Maryland, House Bill 0026, Clean Indoor Air Act – Use of Electronic Smoking Devices – Prohibition, was intended to make the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), “battery-operated devices that contain nicotine cartridges and other chemicals,” illegal in public places (Subramaniam, 2015, p. 2). This would be consistent with the 2007 legislation that prohibited the use of traditional cigarette or other tobacco products that elicit smoke in public places. On February 11, 2015, the Economic Matters Committee heard both

In the summer of 2008, the Smokefree Air Act went into effect in Iowa. Smoking has been banned in public workplaces and transits. Users are fined $50 to $500 if they violate the act. Expanding the fine for smoking could also be another tool to put an end to smoking. Most smokers would rather not pay a large fee and may quit smoking altogether ("14 Central Pros and Cons of Smoking Bans”). At least eighty-two percent of the US population lives in a US state that has enacted a smoking ban. “Almost all states have passed some form of legislation to ban smoking in public areas. In fact, Medline Plus reports that as of May 2010, 39 states had some type of ban in place. According to Medline Plus, 26 of these states have banned smoking in all public places” (Cherney). In 2009, an act was issued to the FDA to stop advertising youth to purchase tobacco products and advertising it to the public. This act was called the, Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This act issued to limit the persuasion of smoking in advertisements, sponsoring it in any sort of entertainment or event, and even sampling it (“Laws/Policies”). Banning smoking could also lessen air pollution, decrease fires, lower energy consumption, etcetera. Smoking causes multiple health problems but could easily be avoided by prohibiting

The use of tobacco related products has over time become a global world epidemic. Day in and out, people die from tobacco related causes. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), currently 12% of all deaths among adults aged 30 years and over were attributed to tobacco. Again in 2004, about 5 million adults aged 30 years and over died from tobacco related to direct tobacco use (smoking and smokeless) around the globe, that is one death approximately every six seconds. Tobacco causes many diseases, many of which are respiratory diseases like tuberculosis, cancer and other cardiovascular diseases. The most common use of tobacco products comes in the form of smoking. Cigarette use has over time, become the most convenient and most common from of tobacco use. Whereas these other products have the likelihood of causing tobacco related diseases, more diseases captured in the top 10 killers of the world come from cigarettes and cigars. Worldwide attention on tobacco use has been focused mainly on cigarettes because people find it more convenient to use. Again, cigarettes come with an extra ingredient that facilitates addiction and leads to higher health risks. Without doubt, it has been proven and it is widely known that the addictive component of cigarettes and cigars is the nicotine content that the manufacturers have a control over. With these factors being at play, cigarette consumption, despite being a health issue, has been hard to tackle.

Tobacco has become one of the many health concerns in the United States. Health Literacy states “Native Americans smoked tobacco through a pipe for special religious and medical purposes.” This demonstrates that tobacco has been a thing for some time now (History of Tobacco). During the time the Native Americans had tobacco plants we now have e-cigarettes. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) states that e-cigarettes are “battery-operated devices that people use to inhale an aerosol, which typically contains nicotine (though not always)” (NIDA). Also, National Institute on Drug Abuse informs that “Research so far suggests that e-cigarettes are less harmful than cigarettes when people who regularly smoke switch to them as a complete replacement…” (NIDA). This shows that Regulating e-cigarettes should not be allowed in America because they do not contain all the deadly components that tobacco contains, they are less expensive than regular cigarettes and they help with breaking their addiction with tobacco related products.

Tobacco was originally produced in the 1600s for smoking and chewing, and took off in popularity as the hand-rolled cigarette form following the end of the Civil War. Smoking and tobacco use have been popular research topics for quite some time – probably since the first research was performed regarding the link between tobacco and cancer. Since then, countless studies have been performed regarding smoking and tobacco use, focusing on the statistics of the different forms of tobacco, consumption by demographic(s), health links beyond cancer – the list could go on. Due to the wide array of studies performed, it is difficult to report on the research of smoking and tobacco consumption as a whole. As such, today, the key topics discussed will be current smoking and tobacco trends in the U.S. and barriers to smoking cessation.