By Hunter Sinrud / For The Herald
The problem with vaping is that it is harmful to your health.
If you use a vaping product of any kind at a young age, it is able to mess with your brain. Vaping can cause damage to your brain if you only inhale only a small part of the smoke.
Vaping products are an alternative to cigars or cigarettes. Vaping was supposed to be much safer than cigars or cigarettes but vapes are also harmful. Vaping is harmful to the human body, but vaping is also very addictive to the point where it feels like you cannot go a long period of time without using it. The smoke in the vape has many chemicals that should not be in vaping products. Therefore, vaping and vaping products should stop being produced in the United States.
The American Lung Association reports that in 2016, the surgeon general concluded that secondhand emissions contain, “nicotine; ultrafine particles; flavoring such as a diacetyl, a chemical linked to serious lung disease.” This is also why it causes lung disease. According to the Baylor College of Medicine, “we have six decades of rigorous studies to show which of the 7,000 chemicals inhaled during smoking impact the lungs. But with vaping, we simply do not know the short- or long-term effects yet and which e-cigarette/vaping products components are to blame.”
Vaping products are harmful to the human body, causing them to damage some of the important inside parts of your body. According to the Baylor College of Medicine, “despite being marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking, vaping products contain nicotine that can harm the body.” With lung tissue being damaged from inhaling the smoke of vaping products, they can be very harmful to anyone who vapes. According to the American Lung Association, “Vaping products produce several dangerous chemicals including acetaldehyde, acrolein, and formaldehyde. These aldehydes can cause lung disease, as well as cardiovascular (heart) disease.”
With the risk of getting heart disease, vaping products can lead to death. Heart disease puts an increased strain on your heart. Simply inhaling the smoke or using a vaping product can lead to death, or damage in parts of your body, making it very risky or use vaping products, this is why I think they should not be produced anymore.
Vaping products are also very addictive to people to have the need to inhale the smoke. Being addicted to vaping or vaping products can be very serious to some people’s health. Many schools have gone as far as installing vape detectors in schools.
“American schools began an initiative to reduce teen vaping by installing vape detectors in 2023 to stop teenagers from vaping.” Vaping products are also made to be addictive due to the amount of nicotine inside of the smoke that you inhale. Studies from vaping campaigns say “that nicotine addiction can affect your mental health. It can make you tired, stressed, and anxious. Nicotine addiction can also affect your concentration and impact your ability to learn if you are too addicted to it. Nicotine is one of the biggest reasons people are addicted to vaping, it makes you feel like you need it when you only want it.
While vaping is supposed to be healthier than smoking, it is also unhealthy for your body. Both smoking cigarettes and vapes are both harmful to you. Vaping is harmful because of the amount of chemicals that are very harmful to your body. The chemicals in the vapes can cause a stop in early brain development. Vaping is addictive because of the amount of nicotine that is inside of the smoke that you inhale in the smoke. About 3,000 people in the U.S. are injured because of vaping, and around 70 people died from 2019 to 2020 because of inhaling the smoke in the vapes.
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