Smoking Is Dangerous

For a long time, merchants have been promoting electronic cigarettes with the selling point that e-cigarettes do not contain harmful ingredients such as tar and suspended particles. As everyone knows, the safety of electronic cigarettes has not been fully scientifically demonstrated. So far, there is no systematic safety assessment data of e-cigarettes at home and abroad. Therefore, it is still uncertain what potential risks e-cigarettes will bring to the health of users.

Experiments have shown that when people use e-cigarettes, in addition to nicotine, they may also inhale a variety of other undiscovered toxic compounds. At the same time, second-hand smoke produced by e-cigarettes may also endanger health. E-cigarettes also release inhalable liquid fine and ultrafine particles, nicotine and carcinogens indoors. Since e-cigarettes do not produce smoke, it is easier to mislead consumers and make them have false perceptions of safety and health.

In addition, a survey of youth smoking in the United States showed that in 2013, more than 260,000 teenagers in the United States tried e-cigarettes for the first time, which was more than three times the number in 2011. After having tasted e-cigarettes in 2013, 49.3% of teens planned to switch to traditional cigarettes, compared with only 21.5% of teens who had tasted e-cigarettes in 2011.

Some e-cigarettes have high nicotine content and may be much more harmful than ordinary cigarettes. Although e-cigarettes do not contain tar, the nicotine in them is not harmless. Simply inhaling nicotine will also cause health risks. Nicotine itself is not a carcinogen, but can act as a "tumor initiator." Moreover, there is sufficient evidence that nicotine exposure in fetuses and adolescents has long-term adverse consequences for brain development.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tested the ingredients of 19 e-cigarettes on the market and found that the smoking devices of e-cigarettes contain carcinogens and other chemicals that are toxic to humans. They also analyzed the components of two best-selling e-cigarettes and found that one sample contained diethylene glycol, which can damage the kidneys when ingested in large doses, and other samples found carcinogens such as nitrosamines. The French national consumer researcher also pointed out that some of the electronic cigarette products investigated in the study contained high levels of nicotine that could even kill a baby. Not only that, because the heating speed of the electronic cigarette device is too fast, a highly toxic molecule called acrolein will also be produced in the process.

In 2013, Dr. Elisabeth Potter, director of the German Federal Health Education Center, conducted research and analysis on e-cigarettes and found that e-cigarettes contain a large amount of propylene glycol, which can irritate the respiratory tract and cause some acute symptoms. Therefore, she believes that e-cigarettes may be more harmful to human health than traditional cigarettes.

On March 15, 2019, the 2019 CCTV 3.15 party revealed that teenagers who smoke e-cigarettes for a long time will also develop dependence on nicotine.

E-cigarettes also release harmful substances, which endanger the health of smokers and passive smokers. Long-term use of e-cigarettes will also produce dependence on nicotine. In the United States and other places, e-cigarettes are listed as tobacco products, and Japan and some European countries manage e-cigarettes as medical products. In China, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued a special notice in 2019 prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.

On August 7, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it had received 127 case reports of seizures following e-cigarette use and was investigating whether e-cigarettes were the direct cause [5]. On August 23, 2019, Illinois health officials said that a patient died of severe lung lesions suspected of being caused by vaping. Experts said that in addition to the harmful substance nicotine of traditional tobacco, e-cigarettes also produce a variety of other harmful substances. [6] The U.S. health department has repeatedly warned about the possible health risks of e-cigarettes, and is currently investigating more than 450 cases of severe lung disease related to the use of e-cigarettes [5] .

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released data showing that as of October 1, 2019, 48 U.S. states and the U.S. Virgin Islands had reported 1,080 confirmed and suspected cases of lung disease related to e-cigarette use, and at least 18 deaths. According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 80% of the more than 1,000 patients are under the age of 35, and 16% of the patients are under the age of 18. About 78 percent of the 578 patients who were known to smoke liquids smoked liquids with the cannabis-like substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

The cause of lung disease caused by e-cigarettes is still unclear. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the 3rd suggested that this may be related to the direct toxicity of toxic chemical fuels. U.S. youth vaping has reached "epidemic levels" in recent years. According to statistics, more than 3.6 million American middle school students smoked e-cigarettes in 2018, an increase of 1.5 million from 2017. [7]

On May 26, 2021, the "China Smoking Harmful Health Report 2020" clearly stated that there is sufficient evidence that e-cigarettes are unsafe and will cause health hazards.