Health Risks of Vaping for Teens
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ScribdTranslationsStatement of the problem
An electronic cigarette or vaporizer heats a liquid to form a vapor that is
Inhale. Vape liquids (called e-liquids) can contain nicotine or
cannabis distillate or oil. Electronic cigarettes can be charged or recharged
with cartridges what contain liquid electronic.
What are the health risks of vaping?
Addiction: electronic cigarettes contain nicotine, a drug that is
highly addictive. It is not necessary to vape every day to become addicted.
Anxiety and depression: nicotine worsens anxiety and depression. It also
it affects memory, concentration, self-control, and attention, especially in
the brains that are developing
Becoming a smoker: young people who vape are more likely to
start smoking regular cigarettes (tobacco) and it is more likely that
develop other addictions in the future.
Impotence: there is evidence that vaping can cause sexual dysfunction.
the men.
Problems sleeping
Exposure to carcinogenic chemical substances
Chronic bronchitis
Lung damage that can be life-threatening
(Amy W. Anzilott2022)
Concern from public health
Because electronic cigarettes do not contain tobacco (although nicotine
(derived from tobacco) and do not produce smoke, in some countries the regulations for
these products are cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, hookahs, not as strong as tobacco
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In this same sense, since in many countries where electronic cigarettes are
legally, the promotion is not prohibited and the restriction on sales to minors
it does not exist (Samet, 2014), which implies a greater health risk for the population
younger. For this reason, the advertising and marketing strategies used by
electronic cigarette manufacturers are considered a new version of
the strategies that the tobacco industry used to promote its products before
de las restricciones a la publicidad. Es decir, utilizan imágenes de realización y libertad,
fun and success, especially aimed at a young audience, which is precisely the most
susceptible to this kind of messages; in addition to associating the use of cigarettes
electronics to the famous, to glamour, to style, to being fashionable. This activity of
promotion to the youth is reinforced through the great variety of flavors that
they are offered, ranging from regular tobacco to banana split, cotton candy, gum
and a long etcetera (according to Professor Jonathan Samet, there are about 7,000 flavors
available).
More than 44,000 students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grade participated in the annual survey
from 2018 about the use of drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. About 37% of the
12th grade students reported vaping in 2018, compared to 28% in 2017.
The vaping of each substance that was asked about increased. This includes nicotine,
flavored liquids, marijuana, and hash oil.
Vaping is reversing the difficult declines in the number of teenagers who
"nicotine use," says Dr. Richard Miech, who led the study at the University of
Michigan. "These results suggest that vaping is leading young people to use
nicotine and nicotine addiction, not to distance oneself from it.
Teenagers are clearly attracted to commercial technology and the
aromas that are seen in vaping devices," explains Dr. Nora D. Volkow,
director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the NIH. "However, it is
It is urgent for adolescents to understand the possible effects of vaping on health.
general, the development of the adolescent brain and the potential for addiction.
Therefore, our research question is whether young adolescents
they really know the harm that affects their health and their economy from the use of the
electronic cigarettes.